Cd Burning Mystery

[andy-hughes]

I burn CD's to play in the car, and I can usually get around nineteen or twenty tracks on one disc.

I have found an old disc I have made, with over a hundred tracks on it - and of course I can't remember making it!

Can anyone suggest the format and software I might have used, so I can make some more?

[barry1010]

Are they mp3s?

[andy-hughes]

According to my car's CD player, they are.

[barry1010]

I used to burn .mp3 with Windows Medial Player. You could use VLC if you prefer.
I have CDs with over 150 tracks on them in mp3 format. It was the standard format to use back in the day as it compresses the music so you can burn a lot more tracks to one cd.

[barry1010]

Just remember to burn to .mp3 whatever software to use. Windows Media Player default is .wmp which doesn't compress

[andy-hughes]

Thanks Barry.

[barry1010]

With you being in the music biz and having used computers for a long time I'm surprised you needed to ask this, andy. When I first starting ripping CDs, mp3s could only be played on a PC. The format soon became common in car stereos, dvd players etc.

[ToraToraTora]

it's probably a data format DVD which many players will recognise and play anyway.

[bhg481]

Yes, your old CDs would be in music format with only a score, or thereabouts, of tracks on a CD. With MP3 format I get 256 tracks on a CD to play in the car - you can get more but it only plays the first 256.

[andy-hughes]

barry - // With you being in the music biz and having used computers for a long time I'm surprised you needed to ask this, andy. //

Why?

I learned to drive over fifty years ago, but i can't tell you how a combustion engine works.

I first flew in a plane nearly sixty years ago, but I don't know how a jet engine works either.

I interview guitarists, keyboard players, bassists, and drummers, and i can't play any instrument.

As far as i an concerned, you don;t need to know how anything actually works in order to make use of it.

That applies to me, and probably millions of other people, regarding computers, and burning software.

[barry1010]

I just thought you'd be ripping CDs by the dozen, like many of us. I ripped all of mine as soon as my PC came with a CD drive that could record.

[andy-hughes]

barry - // I just thought you'd be ripping CDs by the dozen, like many of us. I ripped all of mine as soon as my PC came with a CD drive that could record. //

It's lack of time really.

When I had a day job, all my writing was done on evenings and weekends.

Now I write full time, my workload has expanded, and I work days, not every day or all day by any means, but some days, as well as evenings and weekend, so time away tends to be spent doing things not related to music.

[Geoffrey13]

I walk everywhere but I haven't a clue how to set a broken leg.

[barry1010]

There was a lot of chatter in the music press when ripping CDs first took off. The legalities of it, the perceived threat to the music industry from both ripping CDs and using online peer to peer sharing sites.
The music industry seems to have survived.

[andy-hughes]

barry - // There was a lot of chatter in the music press when ripping CDs first took off. The legalities of it, the perceived threat to the music industry from both ripping CDs and using online peer to peer sharing sites.
The music industry seems to have survived. //

One of the main stories concerned Metallica, and their legal pursuit of Napster, one of the first companies to facilitate free file sharing.

Personally, I was right behind Metallica on that one.

I don't care how rich a band is - it does not entitle people to take their work without paying for it.

There is no cut-off point where someone can arbitrarily decide that a band are rich enough to have their work taken from them without their consent and given away for free. It's immoral.

But as you say, everyone has adapted, and musicians have to accept that the days of keeping hold of all their work and getting money for it, are sadly gone, never to return.

[barry1010]

I agree with you, I never used the sharing sites and the music I transferred to mp3 stayed in my possession along with the originals.