thanks for the video, other tutorials just vaguely described it without showing us anything. I haven't burned a CD since I was 11 years old so very helpful despite it not being "rocket science".
Give the guy some credit: This is by far the easiest way to burn an audio-cd in Windows. Even though I'm used to using more advanced burning software an probably a better cd-writer, I still did learn something today: There is a far easier and faster way to do it if you like. And yes, converting mp3s to an audio-cd is not ideal: The cd will never sound better than the original audio source. But we all know that... maybe except the Spotify-generation. 🙂 I learned something today. Thanks!
Jesus Christ this is literally the worst way to make a Music CD. MP3 and Windows Media Player will make the sound of the CDs terribly horrible. It really tricked the consumer market to make horrible sounding audio CDs back in the day. First, you should consider getting a Plextor CD writer or something similar. This is optional, but a quality CD burner would provide much more accurate results. Second, never ever convert MP3 or WMA into Audio CD. It is a waste of quality. Always try to obtain the WAV file (or FLAC/ALAC) file of the same song. Third, don't use Windows Media Player. Use a third-party CD burning application like Nero or some other out there which accurately records the WAV file onto the CD and doesn't double transcode the audio file like Windows Media Player does. Professionals used to use Sony CD Architect. This is what I use. It's a very old 32 bit application, but still works in Windows 10.
A lot of us were just trying to make mixes for our CD players on our walk to school or the bus ride, we really weren't too concerned if it sounded that HD coming out of our foam-covered plastic headphones we'd steal from the computer lab at school that only worked if you held the cord a certain way, because our parents wouldn't buy us new earbuds every month. I swear those earbuds were designed to crap out every 2 weeks to a month. So obviously for our purpose, we weren't going for the best way, but the easiest, the fastest, and the cheapest. If you could make a video showing how you burn high-quality CDs explaining what WAV is and where to find them, etc. please do I'd love to be able to make some now that that type of thing matters to me more.
An audio CD is NOT the same as a CD-ROM, they are different standards. Also, if you're going to make a CD at least use files that are some version of the IFF standard.
How to burn audio CD's in 2024? The same way it has been done since the 90's! Rip an audio CD to WAV and then burn it to a new blank. If you have 2 drives do a direct copy. If you have .mp3 or other compressed audio files use some type of burning software create a mix and burn it to disc. It's not rocket science.
