TSGL: recommendation

[Ron Grant]

Hi gcc,
Glad you found CDex useful.  I have used it for years.  It is a simple 
program and it always works!  Also in the settings if you insert your 
email address it will download the song titles and times so you don't 
have to do that manually.
As you know it will rip music from a CD and save as compressed .mp3. 
Thus saving a copy of your music to your computer.

I understand your problem of not being able to use the .mp3 disc in your 
CD player.  That is because many players do not play that format.
What I do in order to make a custom CD of my songs is to rip them using 
CDex from many CD's and then from those files mix and make
a custom CD from different artists and songs from different CD's and put 
them on one disc.
You have to use another program to convert back to the standard audio 
format (.wav) in order to listen on a standard CD player.  You can use a 
lot of programs for that, but one you may already have is Windows Media 
Player.
I use version 9.  On the left toolbar choose "Copy to CD or Device"
Under items to copy, choose "All Music"  That should list the music you 
have saved to your computer.  If not, you may need to to a scan with 
Media Player.
Then, with a blank CD in your CD burner, you should be able to choose 
"Copy" and burn selected songs to the blank CD,
which is reconverting back to audio format to play on all CD players.  
Some newer players will play songs in .mp3 format which allows you to 
get lots more songs on a disc, but for ones that do not this is how you 
can make a custom CD of the music you own from your CD's

As far as losing some quality with compressing and then again 
uncompressing, I am sure that is true, but to my largely untrained ears 
I cannot tell any difference, but I am sure there is a loss.  The 
convience of listening to the music the way I want outweighs the loss 
for me.

Hope this helps,  Ron
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gcc wrote:
> Regarding my last post about not being able to burn my mp3 files.  *I* was 
> the problem (stupid, stupid, stupid!) I had selected "Make an audio CD" 
> instead of "Make an MP3 disc."  Nevertheless this does not solve things for 
> me as the cd won't play in my cd player, which is where I want to hear the 
> music (late nights while in bed)  It works fine in my computer and also in 
> my dvd player.  The dvd player is hooked up to my tv so the sound is pretty 
> bad coming out of those tiny, cheap, speakers.  Any *other* options?
>
>
>
> Thanks
> gcc
>   
>> That CDex is a nice (free!) program Ron... thanks for the reco.  So I
>> decided to give the mp3 format (burned on cd) a try to see if I could live
>> with the compression that Justin and Alan suggested might be a problem for
>> me.
>> CDex did it's job perfectly, converting the wav files to mp3. Problem is,
>> that Nero won't burn the mp3 files to my brand new, empty, 700 MB cd-r. I
>> get a message that says I don't have enough room on the blank cd to burn 
>> the
>> files.  Checking the properties of each mp3 file I find that they only 
>> total
>> to 87.7 MB, so there should be plenty of room on that blank cd. As an 
>> aside,
>> the wav file that I converted to mp3 was 800 MB, so that sure is a lot of
>> compressing!  Anyway, I can't imagine why Nero tells me there's not enough
>> room on the blank cd. Any ideas about that?
>>
>> Thanks
>> gcc
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Ron Grant" <nortnarg at gmail.com>
>> To: "Tech Support Guy Mailing List" <list at tsgserver.com>
>> Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2008 1:51 PM
>> Subject: Re: TSGL: recommendation
>>
>>
>>     
>>> CDex  can be downloaded at:  http://cdexos.sourceforge.net   It is a
>>> free program that will rip CD's to your computer compressing from the
>>> .wav format to .mp3.
>>> Once that is done then you can create a disc containing an assortment of
>>> .mp3 music files from the computer  and burn them to a CD disc.
>>> Usually I can get around 130 songs on one disc this way.
>>>
>>>
>>> gcc wrote:
>>>       
>>>> Hi all.  Can anyone recommend here recommend a (preferably) free program
>>>> that compresses wav files, which can then be burned onto a single cd. 
>>>> As
>>>> a
>>>> classical music lover who has cds where a single symphony (Mahler's, for
>>>> instance) spans 2 discs, I would like to compress the wav file enough to
>>>> get
>>>> them on one disc.  Having to get up out of bed to change discs is
>>>> annoying
>>>> to say the least :)
>>>>
>>>> Thanks
>>>> gcc