[Ham-Computers] cassette to CD

[Philip, KO6BB]

Hi,
I have made many audio CD's that play on standard audio CD players, from 
various file formats.

There are three programs on my computer that will do that for me.

1.  Cyberlink "Power2Go" came on my computer and is the one I use most often 
for this purpose.  When you open it, tell it you want to make a Audio CD. 
It will open a "browser" window that will let you select the song tracks you 
wish to put on the CD.  Drag those into the "selected" block, then tell it 
to "burn".  Note:  You can't burn more than roughly 70 minutes or so of 
audio onto a standard Audio CD.  Just because you have a "gazillion" MP3 
files (or whatever) that will fit on a "Data" CD, you still have that ~70 
minute actual audio limit when making an 'audio" CD.

2.  Nero 7 "essentials": This program came with my External DVD burner and 
works similar to the Cyberlink program.

3.  Windows Media Player:  This one will also let you burn audio CDs, but I 
find it harder to use than the other two programs.  So I don't use it for 
that purpose.

73 de Phil,  KO6BB
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----- Original Message ----- 

> What format is the audio being recorded on the CD?
>
> I transfer cassettes to CD often.  I play the cassette into a simple audio
> recording program, such as "Say It" or "Audio Recorder", nothing fancy, 
> just
> the basic sound recorder that comes with Windows 3.11 or Windows 98.
>
> Depending on the program, it will record in .WAV or .MP1, 2 or 3, other
> formats with other programs of course, such as .WMV, .WMA, .AIFF, .PCM, et
> cetera.
>
> These are computer audio formats, not audio CD formats.
>
> To play them in a CD player, you need a CD player or DVD player that
> recognizes the computer format, or use the computer to play the audio file
> back.
>
> To be able to play on a standard audio CD player, you need a recorder that
> will record or convert to .CDA format.  I've had nothing but trouble with
> that as it seems a computers verison of .CDA is entirely different than an
> actual .CDA, so I can't help there, I leave them as .WAV files so I can 
> play
> them
> on computers from DOS 5 or so on up.
>
> Kurt