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Question

Burning Cd from itunes

Nov 16, 2012 10:44AM PST

I bought some music from itunes and then burned them to a CD. My problem is the CD sounds fine when playing on the computer, but it sounds like crap when I play it my home sound system.

Everyone I have asked doesn't know the answer.

I hope someone can point me in the right direction

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couple of possibilities here,
Nov 16, 2012 10:17PM PST

1. The quality of the discs you use is suspect.
2. Your CD Burner is on the way out. It is capable of reading stuff that it burned though
3. Your CD Player is not in the best of health.

I'd start off with a lens cleaner and run it on your CD burner and your CD Player

P

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Burning Cd from itunes
Nov 17, 2012 1:25AM PST

I am using Sony CD, not cheapies

My CD burner is rarely used, it is only about 18 months old

My CD player plays other CD just fine with good quality sound.

I will try the cleaner too see if that helps.

Some one told me that it needs to be an MP3 file.
When itunes burns it has an extension of .ma4 and it says file type is AAC I don't know what this all means but perhaps that could be the problem.

Thanks for your input

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Then you are not burning correctly.
Nov 17, 2012 8:03AM PST

The extension for tracks on a CD is AIFF, not ma4.


How are you burning these CD's?

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Even if it all is perfect.
Nov 17, 2012 2:55AM PST

We know that AudioCD players may have issues with CDR media. It's nothing new yet folk continue to ask. Here's the FAQ!

-> http://www.cdrfaq.org/faq04.html#S4-23

Sorry but widely discussed and I might not duplicate all the prior answers.
Bob