Do you all burn your mp3s as mp3s to your cd's or do you burn them as a audio cd? Will you lose quality if burned as a audio cd?

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Originally posted by Penfold99 Do you all burn your mp3s as mp3s to your cd's or do you burn them as a audio cd? Will you lose quality if burned as a audio cd?

The best a quality in cd format is 320 kbps. I think if you burn in wav you can get way more like 1000. Im wondering to if you burn in mp3 format will the kbps carry over.

No, you will not loose quality.

My method, when i finally get them, will be to burn Audio CDs, with all mixes of the single on each CD. You waste a lot of space, but it will work better when storing loops/ cues and hot cues.

Bet you're getting excited now eh Penfold?!?!?

Jarv

Convert an MP3 to audio, you get the same quality as the original MP3. However, encode audio CD to MP3 and thats where the loss of sound quality comes around. Although if you encode at 320kbps most people would never notice.

Jarv

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Originally posted by Jarvmeister Convert an MP3 to audio, you get the same quality as the original MP3. However, encode audio CD to MP3 and thats where the loss of sound quality comes around. Although if you encode at 320kbps most people would never notice. Jarv

ok cool thanks good to know.

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Originally posted by Jarvmeister No, you will not loose quality. My method, when i finally get them, will be to burn Audio CDs, with all mixes of the single on each CD. You waste a lot of space, but it will work better when storing loops/ cues and hot cues. Bet you're getting excited now eh Penfold?!?!? Jarv

I am yea! if they come next week lol

You heard anymore abouts yours m8?

Ive been using nero 6 and draging my mp3s across which makes a audio cd, so I should not lose quality?

Correctomundo!

Mine, basically I'm waiting to hear that other have theirs, then I'll ring my place and.... well, play the game.

Jarv

Bah! Lots of misinformation in this thread...

1. Cheap CD's are cheap. Don't buy them I had a bunch of super-cheap CDR's that DELAMINATED over time (meaning, the silver coating came off, rendering them unusuable, and quite messy). I never bought the super cheap ones again. But even decent CD's are really affordable if you order them in bulk online.

2. Converting an MP3 to an audio CD will result in an audio CD with MP3 quality. CD quality sound (16 bit, 44.1khz) is higher quality than ANY MP3. MP3 is a lossless codec, and it's normally made by compressing a CD quality file, therefore no matter what bit-rate you encode at, there will always be some loss of sound quality. That being said, 320Kbps isn't bad, but you shouldn't play anything less on a big system.

3. Downloading a WAV format of an audio file and burning it to a CD is the same as buying a CD in the store, no loss of audio quality.

4. WAV is not a single thing. Just as MP3 can be encoded at different bitrates, WAV is just an audio file container format. A wav file can be recorded at various bitrates, from really crappy to 24/96khz quality (which is far better than CD quality).

5. HIGHER quality audio then CD exists in the form of SACD (super audio-cd) and DVD audio. These use the much higher 24 bit/96khz sample rate for digital audio that is typically used by studios. We, as DJ's, should push to make these standard. There are debates as to whether vinyl sounds better than CD (which was standardized in 1980, mind you), but nobody really debates SACD or DVDA. Distributing this quality file in a lossless compression format online should be pushed as the future. Why settle for less in this day an age? MP3 caught on during a period when nothing better was availble (and bandwidth was extremely limited), there are very few good reasons to continue using it.

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Originally posted by Ryan0751 Bah! Lots of misinformation in this thread... 2. MP3 is a lossless codec,

Lots of misinformation in this thread and your post is no exception;


MP3 is a LOSSY codec , not lossless !!

LOL Pwned!

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Originally posted by First Strike Lots of misinformation in this thread and your post is no exception; MP3 is a LOSSY codec , not lossless !!