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Online music downloads

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  • 12-02-2007 3:15pm
    #1
    Colonel Kurtz
    Registered Users Posts: 104 ✭✭


    Hey. Some advice needed for an online downloading novice...

    If I'm downloading music to be copied onto CD (and not to be used for an
    MP3), what format should I save the file in ?


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    #2
    Cunny-Funt
    Registered Users Posts: 2,748 ✭✭✭Cunny-Funt


    When you download the music its gonna be in MP3 format. But when you copy it to disc, whatever you use to do so should convert it into CD format anyways.


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    lulu07
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1 ✭lulu07


    try to save it as .wav


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    Mossy Monk
    Closed Accounts Posts: 28,128 ✭✭✭✭Mossy Monk


    save as .wav?

    you download as whatever format you download them in. you cannot download a mp3 and save as a wav. you must convert the mp3 after you are done downloading


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    Makaveli
    Registered Users Posts: 8,503 ✭✭✭Makaveli


    Indeed, however converting an mp3/m4a/wma/ogg (lossy) to wav (lossless) would be an absolute waste of time.


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    BaZmO*
    Registered Users Posts: 18,625 ✭✭✭✭BaZmO*


    Cunny-Funt wrote:
    When you download the music its gonna be in MP3 format. But when you copy it to disc, whatever you use to do so should convert it into CD format anyways.
    If you want to burn mp3's onto a CD so that they can be played in a regular CD Player you need to convert them to .wav format and then burn the disk. There's tonnes of freeware programs out there that will convert music files for you, CD-DA Extractor is a particularly good one.

    If you have itunes installed on your computer it will convert your selected mp3 files as it burns a CD. This is probably one of the easiest ways to do what you're trying to do.


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    grumpytrousers
    Registered Users Posts: 1,884 ✭✭✭grumpytrousers


    Makaveli wrote:
    Indeed, however converting an mp3/m4a/wma/ogg (lossy) to wav (lossless) would be an absolute waste of time.

    What he said. If you're only gonna play these cd's with what *were* mp3s then don't expect 100% tipper topper sound, cos you won't have it. An mp3 if 10% of the size of a wav file for a good reason...it's missing 90%


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    Cunny-Funt
    Registered Users Posts: 2,748 ✭✭✭Cunny-Funt


    BaZmO* wrote:
    If you want to burn mp3's onto a CD so that they can be played in a regular CD Player you need to convert them to .wav format and then burn the disk. There's tonnes of freeware programs out there that will convert music files for you, CD-DA Extractor is a particularly good one.
    .

    I know but most CD copying software just does this as it copys to the CD. As long as you picked "audio cd" and not "data cd" that is.


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    #9
    crosstownk
    Registered Users Posts: 12,863 ✭✭✭✭crosstownk


    Save the file as the MP3 you download and export it to the CD you are burning as AIFF.
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