What program do you use to burn audio CDs?
Reply #25 – 2002-06-26 04:26:35
Originally posted by rjamorim Eheh. It says the flaw is in Nero's MP3 decoder, not in the Audio CD writing routines. Here is a section under conclusions. Burning mp3s to audio CD With modern fast PCs, it is possible to decode an mp3 file and burn it onto audio CD at the same time. Several CD writing packages offer this feature, called "on-the-fly" decoding. The alternative is to decode to .wav first, then burn these .wavs onto audio CD. The end result is the same, but this process takes longer, and requires enough free hard disk space to store the .wavs. However, it may be more reliable than "on-the-fly" decoding on slow PCs, and allows you to edit and normalize the .wavs before burning them to CD. No packages offering "on-the-fly" decoding were perfect. Here is a list some CD-writing packages, together with their problems. Easy CD Creator Deluxe 4 clips the end off many files, and costs around $99. HyCD makes slight errors above 16kHz, and has poor low level accuracy. Media Jukebox actually decodes to wav internally BEFORE writing to CD. It works well, but is no faster than decoding externally using other software. Not true "on-the-fly", but easy for the novice. No decoding faults. MusicMatch Jukebox was not tested writing CDs, but its decoder makes an audible error with a particular lame encoded tone sweep. Nero has slight high frequency errors, and costs $49. Real Jukebox records the CDs in track at once mode, giving a 2 second gap between tracks. No decoding faults. Windows Media Player 7B would not work with my CD writer, so could not be tested. The decoding engine is excellent, so it may write CDs perfectly. WinOnCD can't handle VBR files, exhibits the 100Hz bug, and gives high frequency errors. More recent versions may have fixed these problems. It costs $59. Real Jukebox and Media Jukebox are both good choices if you don't want to spend any money, and are quite easy to use. If you already own Easy CD Creator Deluxe 4, and don't mind the last 1/20th second being clipped off your files, then that is a good choice too. For CDs that really matter, I still decode to .wav first Read the section for Nero