Blank cd question

[rosstheboss]

Which format of blank cds work in everything? Seem to remember some don't work in car cd players and a few other places?

 

[Easy_Rider]

I though blanks were blanks and it depends what you write to it how it plays.

If you are talking about music, then ".wav" is what a normall CD is so should play in anything, but most newer players will now read mp3 format, which means you can roughly have 10x more content.

 

[rosstheboss]

I'm looking to burn some cds as wedding favours, so don't need to have hundreds of songs on a disc, do most cd editing programs convert the songs to .wav? or do I need some specialist software?

 

[tintin40]

I though blanks were blanks and it depends what you write to it how it plays.

Their are -RW discs and so on. Sorry haven't a clue which will play in all players.

 

[Easy_Rider]

But if you close a RW then it'll work in anything i thought....

Ross, AFAIK any CD writing software will write in .wav format, probably need 750mb CD's to fit 1 album. Go for the single write ones as they are cheaper anyway.

.wav format is what a normal CD comes in. Normaly when you burn a CD to your HDD it converts the .wav to mp3 which is a compressed format. So when you convert back it really depends what quality you originally converted to mp3 with as the .wav song may sound crap.

 

[legrandefromage]

its all to do with the reflectivity of the disk when it comes to playing in existing machines.

CD-RW are darker and are less likely to play.

I have some 1st generation CD players from around 1983/84 that will play CD-R without a problem. These CD-Rs contain normal music, not MP3 (i forget what the process is called)

To play MP3 disks you will need an MP3 compatable player such as any supermarket DVD player. It will decode MP3 off a 700MB CD-R or CD-RW disk and play away, boogying on down at your wedding.

 

[cyfa2809]

cd-r i think is the one, just burn one and test before continuing, most modern players will read mp3 and wma i think

 

[legrandefromage]

most modern players will read mp3 and wma i think

only if you see the MP3 logo on the front.

an ordinary CD player will not decode MP3

 

[cyfa2809]

lgf, ive never seen that but i used to burn all my cds in mp3 :?

 

[legrandefromage]

lgf, ive never seen that but i used to burn all my cds in mp3 :?

you were more likely converting FROM MP3 to CD