I have a few questions relating to converting mp3 to audio cd, as I have some mp3 recordings I need to add to audio cdr in order to play on any hi-fi :-
1. What would you recommend as good tools for the job in converting mp3 to audio cd, with a high quality conversion? A tool that can verify the burns afterwards would be the best for me (ashampoo does not let me do this). Are there any free tools that can give a high quality output for this task?
2. Other than mp3, whats the best tool in your opinion that can convert a variety of audio formats to audio cd, without having to take each track individually to a format that the conversion program only supports (which is supposedly usually wav or mp3)?
3. Do audio cds normally have a main title?
4. I tried out ashampoo, which for mp3 to audio cd conversion, did not let me write a main title header for the disc in general. My discs didnt read in the same laptop after a burn either, but they did in a hi-fi!-could this have been related to the audio cd not allowing me to give the cd a title, or is it more likely to just be a poor drive or burning program?
5. After adding mp3 files, for a split second a window once popped up in the above ashampoo program and asked me to give the disc a name, but disappeared when I tried to click on the text area. I thought initially that my firewall/protection may have been causing the window to disappear (comodo/adaware always running)-which sounds like a bad bug-has anyone come across this in ashampoo? It hasnt happened since, I get no "name your cd" window- perhaps this wasnt ever meant to appear, and was a bug itself in ashampoo?
1)Verification is not necessary, they are are supposed to be different. - Mediamonkey 2)Quality conversion is mostly about YOU making the right decisions. The best converter in the world will ruin your audio if you make bad choices - dbPowerAmp Mediamonkey can burn various formats to an audio CD transparently. I think you can even normalize the CD, useful if the tracks came from different albums. I know it normalizes mp3 disks.
3)No
4) It was right, you were wrong to try to do something foolish. Mediamonky will allow you to write text on an audio CD that will be ignored by the player but might be read by a ripper. This is necessary if the tracks come from different albums.
5) Mediamonkey will allow you to add/change data whenever
Read the top sticky, you have much to learn.
dbPowerAmp will bulk convert for you but you really need to match density and bit rate. dbPowerAmp will even match bit rates in a bulk conversion but it will convert to CBR of the same BR of the target. mp3 CBR is the least dense of the lossy formats so you will certainly lose audio quality ant a hear able level.
