HELP! I am an MP3 virgin and embarassing my 11yr old son!

rogerramjet

Pink-winged wrote:

Hi rogerramjet,

I've been following this thread, but I don't understand the point you are making with your link. Please can you explain?

The link takes you to a page where the question of converting files has already been discussed and there are links in the posts which inform where the software can be found to do the converting

wolfman

boogiemaster wrote:

On a basic music Cds the tunes are made in Wav format! Wav format is high quality audio but takes up a lot of space on the Cd.
Mp3 is a compressed version of the wav file and isn’t as good quality as a wav file.

To be exact, it's not actually wav files on the cd, although you rip to a wav file, which is a near exact interpretation of the audio on the cd. It's a lossless format.

VixxAnn

Thanks for all the posts everyone but I have to admit I am still confused!

Am I going to struggle getting MP3 CDs , shall I take the CD player back?

At 11yrs old my son is still more interested in CDs than MP3 but I can see that changing quickly when he goes to high school etc. I thought this was a good compromise but if its not going to work properly I'll just get him a "normal" one and let him get a separate MP3 player when the time is right.

?????????????
(and do I even ask what MP4 is... :rolleyes: )

rogerramjet

The CD player is a *normal* one, it just has the added ability to play MP3 songs as well.

With regard to MP4 look here

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/774615.stm

-TangleFoot-

You can make your own MP3-CDs pretty easily: you just need to get some MP3 files from somewhere. Buy (or not) and download, or convert from audio-CD, then simply burn to CD.

Oh, and there's no need to exchange it for a conventional CD player; both will read audio-CDs with no trouble. If you want to swap it for an MP3 player though, go ahead.

gorilla

Making mp3 cd's is really easy and I don't think you should take back the cd player to replace it with a flash based memory mp3 player, afterall you are still going to have get mp3's from somewhere. If you're son already has music cd's that he likes and you have a computer at home the process is simple.
Pop the cd into the cd drive, play the cd in windows media player.
There will be a tab labelled 'RIP', select this and it will convert the cd into mp3 format and save in onto your computers memory.
Before ripping check in the 'tools' menu and then options that the ripping format is mp3 see here for a screen shot
Once you have the cd's converted to mp3 you can use your cd writing software (maybe Nero?) to burn your mp3's to a blank cd. Simply insert a blank cd into your cd drive, select the mp3's you want to copy onto the cd and if you have windows xp, it should give you the option to 'copy files to cd'.
Hope this helps.

boogiemaster

I have lots of music cds that are in wav file format! When a band makes a song it is wav file.

From a music company recording studio
Quote WAV files
WAV files can be used with almost any program that supports audio.You need a WAV file to create an audio CD.
Some software converts the wav file into a different format like windows media player.
The wav file is converted in to Cda and when you check the size it is a few bites in size
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I also make music and exporting the finished tune is exported as a wav file.
The software converts it to a different format so that all cd players can play the music


To be exact, it's not actually wav files on the cd, although you rip to a wav file, which is a near exact interpretation of the audio on the cd. It's a lossless format.

To be exact it starts off as a wave file! When ripped from a cd it gets converted back to a wav file.
The wav file is then converted to an mp3 to play on mp players and cd mp3 players.

I use Logic Audio and it exports wav file audio
I use Cubase and it exports as wav file
I also use Fruity studio and exports as wav file
Pro tools Wav format


For creating music CDs??????????, The WAV files are converted to the CDDA audio format. Both CDDA files and WAV files (at their highest sampling rates) take up a similar amount of storage space and are not compressed like MP3 or Windows WMA files. See sampling rate.

Borrowed from http://www.answers.com/topic/wav

wolfman

boogiemaster wrote:

I have lots of music cds that are in wav file format! When a band makes a song it is wav file.

boogiemaster wrote:

To be exact it starts off as a wave file! When ripped from a cd it gets converted back to a wav file.

I wasn't disputing the fact that it starts or ends as a WAV file. I was just saying it's not actually a WAV file on the cd. You can't drag and drop a WAV file from the audio cd. If you extract a track from a cd it's an analog interpretation (WAV file) of the audio that's stored digitally on the disc.