Burn music to CD

J_B

I need to burn some music to a CD to play for an occasion.

I downloaded one song from YouTube as an Mp3 file

I then used Windows Media Player to burn it to a blank CD

After it failed for the third time, I gave up and binned the CDs

We've now found the artist's original CD in the garage and would like to burn six tracks onto a new disk.

Where did I go wrong originally and how can I do it correctly this time?

geordiejon

if you want to play these songs in a normal cd player you need to convert the mp3 files to wave format then burn to a cd.

J_B

The CD we have seems to have .cda files - presumably that's the same, is it?

Zinger549

Did you finalize the disc once it had finished?

Neil_Jones

geordiejon said:

if you want to play these songs in a normal cd player you need to convert the mp3 files to wave format then burn to a cd.

You don't even need to do that.  Your choice of burning software will do that for you.

Nero used to be the bundled choice with every drive.  Media Player is supposed to be able to burn CDs but copious versions, computers and versions of Windows later I've never been able to get it to burn anything.

Alternative software:  CDBurnerXP (works on all versions of Windows never mind what the name says, it just looks like Windows XP), and ImgBurn.

geordiejon

A CDA file is just a representation of audio tracks on a CD and it does not contain any music or audio. 
take the advice of neil above and get software he has stated which will do the job.

PHK

Just to point out that depending where you got the audio from it’s likely to have DRM to prevent you copying it. 

Back in the 90s or early 00s you could rip a CD to your PC and then create compilations but that is unlikely to work now. 

J_B

PHK said:

Just to point out that depending where you got the audio from it’s likely to have DRM to prevent you copying it. 

Back in the 90s or early 00s you could rip a CD to your PC and then create compilations but that is unlikely to work now. 

It has 2010 Decca records on it!

400ixl

Any reason it has to be on a CD? You say it is for an occassion, is this with a DJ? most use digital media these days and not CD's. Putting the MP3 on a USB drive will suffice for most.

J_B

400ixl said:

Any reason it has to be on a CD? You say it is for an occassion, is this with a DJ? most use digital media these days and not CD's. Putting the MP3 on a USB drive will suffice for most.

It's for a funeral in a church - sadly, they're not very 'digital'!!!

km1500

are you sure you are burning a music CD and not a data CD?