Does the quality of music change or depreciate when copied from CD to CD to CD?
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Unless you change the fileformat the qualiy wont change (ie human sences cant pickup the change).\nIf you just copy the music from one cd to another cd then you will get the second CD with no notisable difference from first. If master CD has scratches it will affect the quality of second.
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Ok this is where you went wrong...Dont ever, and when I say ever I mean it dont ever burn CD's that you bought OUT of the US on an American computer, the format for every country is different. Your best bet would be to find a program online (I.E. Sound Studio, Rip and Track) and load the file into that and chop it up, thats all i can tell you.
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The best way I found was to slow the burning process way down, there will be less chance of an interruption in the buffered data and should help to prevent errors.  The quality of the CD also depends on the quality of the digital music you are burning.  Go with a bit rate of no less than 320kbps which is as near CD quality as you're going to get.  The media also plays a part, buying cheap CDR's will increase the failure rate.  Goto the website below for more info.  The website has info for just about any brand of blank media.  Lot's of info on everything related to burning cd's.  The only way to check for errors in the music is to listen to it completely afterward.
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If you have itunes you can simply set the preferences to use 'mp3 encoder' when 'ripping'. Ripping is removing the music from a CD so you have a backed up copy. If you use itunes, once you have set it to mp3 encoder, you can simply select 'convert selection to mp3' it will make whatever audio file is in your itunes library that you have selected into an mp3 file.\nIf you use windows media player, set the preferences to 'mp3 encoder' and 'burn cd'
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Did you listen to each song to make sure it was complete before you burned the CD? Sometimes only partial songs are offered on limewire. I always listen to each song and MAKE SURE that the files are compatible with my CD burning program before burning. I suggest using Gold Wave - a great program - you can edit songs - make them louder or softer - delete long fades - save as a different file type - it's awesome. Hope this long winded diatribe helped!
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mp3 is a compression of your music. The standard is from CD to 128 kbit/s w/ cd quality being 1400 kbit/s.  To make smaller, you compress more and therefore take away quality (details are taken out to compress.) There are other compression formats to use, but by definition they all compress the info and therefore lose quality.  Try 96 kbit/s and see if you notice a difference. (This will be found in the recording media; ie. the program that "rips" CD to mp3.)  Again 128 is standard for not noticing quality loss.  VBR is a good choice. It breaks the songs into segments so that low quality sections can have lower bit rate. Set VBR from 96-128.
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You will have use "Create Data CD" option when you start to create your "media" CD. The music you copy cannot be CD tracks if they need to co-exist on a media dist with other files (pictures, etc) Music in MP3 or MIDI format for example can co-exist with pictures or any other data files.
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Hi There\n\nI have listed two sources for converting these files, both are free. The 3rd source do a simple search and you will get lots of programs but you would have to purchase them. To explain each .dat .cda and AAC format would bore you, they are just ways to compress music. The important thing is the links below to the software allow you to switch, change, store, convert and play each of them.
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depends what format and what software u have. try converting mp3 and reduse sound quality will shrink the size.
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It is, but it is negligible... think about the audio quality you are sacrificing going from CD to MP3, which is MUCH bigger of a jump than 192 to 128... do you notice it, really?\n\nI go for lowest quality to save disc space and it doesn't effect my listening pleasure.\nOf course, I grew up on LPs so....
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The Nero software for burning CDs actually has a decent program included called "Wave Editor" that makes it posible to fade songs in and out and you can cut portions of the song out that suck....and if you're good at you won't be able to tell.  Also pulling out a few seconds in the beginning..  That sort of thing.
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Yes, however you need software to do so.\n\nIf you have an IPOD for instance, you use the I-Tunes software.\n\nThe process consists of converting the tracks on the CD using the software, which you can save in a variety of formats, .mp3 being the easiest in my opinion if you are going to copy them to an mp3 player.\n\nSimple answer is to get software such as CDEx, etc, or go to download.com and search for "cd to mp3."
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I'd google it for your local area - there are plenty of places that transfer vinyl to cd, and the prices vary.\n\nGood luck.
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Trust me, the mp3s don't sound as good as your CDs. Like you, I've spent a great deal of money on CDs, but I also own an iPod so I can take my catalog on the go. I've used the standard compression of 128kbps to transfer my music to iTunes and at that rate, about 1.4 hours only takes 80Mb of space, where 80 minutes of uncompressed audio on a CD uses 700Mb of space. That means there is a lot of information thrown away in the compression process. Now for what it is, it sounds very good, but the hard copy CD will always be better sounding than the mp3. Some people say they don't hear the difference, others do....that includes me! While listening in the car with road noise and other distracting sounds, that's a fair trade off for me, but when I get home, the CDs still go in the expensive sound equipment because at home it's quiet and I can hear what's missing from the mp3s. So don't go selling off your CD collection because computers crash and mp3 players crash. Sometimes lightening gets it all at the same time....I've had it happen. You'll need the hard copies to re-load the computer and mp3 player. Because of that, I've loaded everything on an external hard drive and keep it away from the computer unless I need to update it. Oh, even though I've loaded all of my album artwork to my computer and iPod, you can't go through the pages and read the liner notes and stuff on an mp3 player...\n\nIt is nice to pull any album I want in the car or randomly shuffle tunes I haven't heard in a long time without searching through my collection of CDs.\n\nOne day someone may be looking for something you have and you can say "Oh yes, I have an original uncompressed CD if you would like a hard copy of it". I do have a few CDs that are long out of print and you can't even find them online for download!\n\nBuying CDs was a good choice...be proud of your collection!!
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CDex  \nConvert CD audio to MP3 and wav files.
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Because it converts the songs from .wma or .mp3 to the CD format.  The CD format doesn't have the same compression ratio as the previous files but it allows it to play on a normal CD player.\n\nIf you want to fit more, but them as .mp3 or .wma and then you have to play them in a compatible player, not just a normal CD player.
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Windows Media player will rip and tag(titles and artwork) your CDs into MP3.  It is quite time consuming the first time but when you get all your current music ripped then all you have to do is rip new CDs as you get them.  My Cd collection has been completely ripped and stays in the closet.  When I buy a new disc the first time it is played it gets ripped and then into the closet it goes.