cd burning question

[plonter]

Hi all. i made myself a little compilation of tracks from different cds.
now.. my question is: is the best way of doing that is to rip all the desired tracks to wav and than burn them to a disc using nero..?

or maybe there is a better way of keeping the original sound of the tracks.
i dont have two cd-roms only one.

thx!

 

[iriverdude]

Ripping to lossless won't degrade sound quality. Just rip the tracks rename to the order you want, drag the files to nero audio cd creator.

 

[plonter]

thanks..so i was doing right!
if i may ask another question.. when nero burns the cd(in "make audio cd" mode) it changes the format of the tracks to another audio format(don't sure excactly what it is...) so how is it that when you burn mp3 and wav they both will end in the same storage space? nero measures it by the playing time and not the files size! but the quality remain as the original file?

 

[iriverdude]

Because there is no conversion, if you put wave say 650mb worth this equates to roughly a hour. Wav is redbook standard and to burn off a audio CD is has to burn wave to this format. If you burn mp3 onto a audio CD it has to transcode mp3 to wave, this is pointless so always use flac/alac/wave when doing this.

 

[plonter]

thanks!

 

[Pio2001]

Does Nero still add 2 seconds of silence between tracks, as it has done for years ?

 

[erfmd]

a related nero question: when using the copy cd function - does this make an identical copy or does it in the process convert to another format? is any sound quality theoretically lost? thanks.

 

[erfmd]

just wondering if the nero copy cd function makes an identical copy of the CD without quality loss? thanks

 

[nick_charles]

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Originally Posted by Pio2001 /img/forum/go_quote.gif Does Nero still add 2 seconds of silence between tracks, as it has done for years ?

You can remove the 2 seconds in the options but it always puts a 2 second silence before the first track