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WAV v's MP3 formats for burning CD's

by Oct 13, 2012 11:59PM PDT

Hi. I am not tecnically minded.
I wish to copy approx 160 tunes from tape cassettes to CDR's which can then be played on any other CD player.

I need clarification regarding the size of the audio files.

I believe the files can be recorded in MP3 format (reducing their size to about one tenth) but must then be converted to WAV format in order that they be cut to audio CDR.

Does the conversion from MP3 to WAV format increase the file sizes tenfold thereby eliminating the benefit of compressed files?

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Re: burning CD's
by Forum moderator Oct 14, 2012 12:06AM PDT

It's better to copy/record to wav than to mp3. You'll lose sound quality by first recording to mp3, then converting to wav.

And yes, 70 minutes of wav are 700 MB (that's a regular audio CD) and 70 minutes of low-quality mp3 are 70 MB. But your requirement about any other CD player means they must be wav. Then 160 tunes of 3 minutes = 500 minutes = 7 to 8 CD's.

Kees

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by Totner Oct 14, 2012 1:45AM PDT

Many thanks Kees. I will use WAV format only.

Totner.

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