Re-encoding audio cds

[androsovic]

I need the how to.my issues messing up                    

[cdx2k1]

Try a program called Altomp3 maker.I using it for a while now and it real nice.                    

[Meamyam]

I need the how to.my issues messing up

Could you elaborate a bit on what the problem is and what you're trying to achieve?                    

[Flippant]

yeah what's the point of asking a technical question if you are not specific?                    

[androsovic]

WHAT THE MC U MEAN TECHNICAL?I ASK A SIMPLE QUESTION! HOW TO REENCODE CDS.IS OBVIOUS THE CD LOSE QUALITY.STOP SPAMMING AND USE UR MC BRAIN!                    

[cdx2k1]

HAHA! allyuh look for that                      

[unimatrix001]

well if you want to rip a cd, use cdex1.51 and encode as mp3 or ogg or somethin (i like ogg and i currantly converting all my cd's to ogg... damn it takes long to encode 1 song) but if you lookin to convert from mp3s into a cd you like get nero and u select audio cd, and then drag your mp3 collection into the dialogue and bunn away... i cant think of what u really mean by what u said... possibly send screenshot :s                    

[richjob]

It depends.

Do you want to convert some mp3 files to CD?  Is your CD old and beaten and you want to "freshen the media" by copying the CD?

Or do you want to rip some CDs back to MP3?

If the intention is to get the CDs back as an audio CD, rip at high quality.   No 128 kbs here.  225kbs or better.                    

[richjob]

Ok.  Let me clarify.

MP3 is a lossy format at low encoding levels.  You can rip lossless MP3s, but they do take up quite a bit of space.  Thing is, once you get your files into MP3 at a certain bitrate (like 128k) you can't re-encode them at anything higher than that rate.  The digital data is just not there.  That may account for music originally ripped at 128 kbps MP3s sounding kinda flat when re-encoded as WAV files.

Now, WAVs are lossless - no data lost when transferring them from AUDIO CD to WAV.  Thing is, they take up about 50 MB (rough average) per tune.  Mp3, take up about 1/10 the size, but at the expense of some loss of digital data, with a corresponding loss in quality.

Does that make sense?                    

[androsovic]

u mean wav or cda?cuz d cd really gone through                    

[richjob]

What you see on the CDs are really WAV files.  When you rerip them as WAV files and stick 'em in your PC, they will show up as CDAs. - in other words, Windows will treat it like any other music CD.