I'm not certain what section of the forums this belongs in, but since it's about burning a cd using my pc's CD-ROM, I'll place it here.
I know next to nothing about the technicalities of sound reproduction like in 'mpeg-4' and audio cds. However, the other day I took a leap of faith and downloaded via ITunes Bach's Das Wohltemperierte Klavier Book played by Askenazy. Gramophone had given it a rave review and I had been unable to find it for sale. It came down in mpeg-4's. It took me a bit of time to figure out how to burn it onto CDs using ITunes, but finally I did. A year or so ago when one of my 'desert island' cds went bad and I could not find a replacement, I started burning copies of my favorites. At the time I learned about Memorex black CD-Rs and had been using them. I also found recommendations on the web to use 24x for the burn speed. Strangely, I had to use 4 cds for this burn. The last cd had only two 'pieces' of the 75 total on it. When I went back later to look at ITune's Advanced parameters for burning I found one that was for 'Gap between songs'. It was preset to 2 seconds. My guess is that if I had reset it to none, I would have gotten everything onto 3 cds.
Anyhow, bottomline......the sound out of those cds was absolutely spectacular. I have no better cds audio-wise in my collection. I later downloaded some Beethoven piano sonatas played by Garrick Ohlsson and burned it onto a non-black Sony CD-R for music. It also was spectacular. By the way the burning was done via the CD-ROM on my pc (Samsung CDRW/DVD SM325B). It's 2.5 yrs old. I have one of those CD lens cleaner cds that I used before the burn. My primary concern now is that I might go bankrupt downloading and burning cds.
I'm waiting for the record companies to enable me to download some of their no longer in print cds. Decca has kept their hands on a Gioconda sung by Milanov that is the only one of the favorites from my lp record collection that I haven't replaced with cds. They apparently did release it at one time, but I never got my hands on it and cannot find it anywhere.
I'm not certain what section of the forums this belongs in, but since it's about burning a cd using my pc's CD-ROM, I'll place it here.
I know next to nothing about the technicalities of sound reproduction like in 'mpeg-4' and audio cds. However, the other day I took a leap of faith and downloaded via ITunes Bach's Das Wohltemperierte Klavier Book played by Askenazy. Gramophone had given it a rave review and I had been unable to find it for sale. It came down in mpeg-4's. It took me a bit of time to figure out how to burn it onto CDs using ITunes, but finally I did. A year or so ago when one of my 'desert island' cds went bad and I could not find a replacement, I started burning copies of my favorites. At the time I learned about Memorex black CD-Rs and had been using them. I also found recommendations on the web to use 24x for the burn speed. Strangely, I had to use 4 cds for this burn. The last cd had only two 'pieces' of the 75 total on it. When I went back later to look at ITune's Advanced parameters for burning I found one that was for 'Gap between songs'. It was preset to 2 seconds. My guess is that if I had reset it to none, I would have gotten everything onto 3 cds.
Anyhow, bottomline......the sound out of those cds was absolutely spectacular. I have no better cds audio-wise in my collection. I later downloaded some Beethoven piano sonatas played by Garrick Ohlsson and burned it onto a non-black Sony CD-R for music. It also was spectacular. By the way the burning was done via the CD-ROM on my pc (Samsung CDRW/DVD SM325B). It's 2.5 yrs old. I have one of those CD lens cleaner cds that I used before the burn. My primary concern now is that I might go bankrupt downloading and burning cds.
I'm waiting for the record companies to enable me to download some of their no longer in print cds. Decca has kept their hands on a Gioconda sung by Milanov that is the only one of the favorites from my lp record collection that I haven't replaced with cds. They apparently did release it at one time, but I never got my hands on it and cannot find it anywhere.