I was just wondering what speed you would burn Audio CD's at?? I burnt one today and the tracks get lots of background noises. I am told that I should put songs of an Audio Cd in the .wav file onto my Hard Drive but how can this be done?? Is it a matter of draging and dropping to a folder??. The only thing I can think of is converting them off the CD into .mp3's and then back into .wav files and then onto the CD-R. Would I loose any Audio quality by doing this?? If so how much and would it be really noticible?? And last of all I read something about if you record at a slow speed it sounds dead and if at a fast speed it sounds more bright so this goes back to my first question what is a suitable speed for Audio??
Cheers

Nightrain:beer:

I would advise you to burn at the higher speed possible without fear. You can also read this article: How Safe is High-Speed CD-Audio Recording? (http://www.emedialive.com/EM2000/STARRETT5.HTML)


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You will lose quality if you convert to MP3 and then back again - it's also unnecessary in this case. Depending on what burner proggie you use there is likely to be a function to extract cd tracks to HDD. EZCD5 has a convert command, WinOnCD5 has an export command.

Also depending on what you want to do there may be no need to copy to HDD in the first place. You can copy direct to CD 'on the fly' or via disk temporary cache.

As for burn speed - some people swear by lower speeds, some say use as fast as possible. My advice would be to try at fastest speeds & if no problems then continue.

Use CDex ( http://www.cdex.n3.net/ ) to rip (extract) the audio tracks to WAVE files and save them on your HD if you want to rip the audio tracks 1st before burning.

Dunno 'bout you but I would NEVER make an "on-the-fly" copy of an audio CD! Too risky!

Try Exact Audio Copy (EAC) http://www.exactaudiocopy.de/

This is usually tipped as the best free audio ripper/copier around.
I usually reduce my burning speed from 24x to 12x for audio & I`ve never had a problem.

inca

Oh & I forgot to mention, I never burn on the fly, always rip to hd first then burn

inca

Thanks to everyone who worte back regarding this issue!!

Cheers:beer: