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Old 03-27-2003, 07:08 PM   #1
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cdrw audio files

ok I just installed a cdr rw drive.

I want to be able to copy songs off my audio cd's and make cd's that will play on a cdr/rw player

I have no clue how

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Old 03-27-2003, 07:40 PM   #2
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I believe any PC CD drive, like a CD-R/W drive should be able to play audio CDs. You might have to have an audio cable hooked up to the CD-drive and your soundcard, but I think you can play audio-CDs with just an IDE connection.

So do you want to copy your audio-CDs to CD-R or CD-RW?

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Old 03-27-2003, 08:55 PM   #3
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audio cd's to cdrw
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Old 03-27-2003, 10:52 PM   #4
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The two main burning programs that I know of (Nero and Easy CD Creator) have a wizard to help you setup how to burn your CD.

Do you have Nero or Easy CD Creator?

Do you only have a CD-RW, or a CD-RW and another drive?

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Old 03-28-2003, 11:34 PM   #5
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just the cdrw it replaced a cdrom that went bad it came with some software called bclips its a sony drive
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Old 03-29-2003, 02:44 AM   #6
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Ripping

I think you said you wanted to be able to copy files from a cd then make new cds. The answers you got so far are how to make copies of cds with software.
I use a freeware program called CDex and it will "rip" a track from a cd and save it on your hard drive. You can rip just one song or all the songs on the cd. You can choose to save it as a wav file format or a mp3 format. It works pretty easy. I believe it copies the song to c:\windows\temp. Just click and expand those new directories till you find your mp3 file. Then you can rename the file to the name of the song.
http://www.cdex.n3.net/
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Old 03-29-2003, 06:30 AM   #7
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If you only have the single drive, "ripping" with CDEx is the best way. Create a new folder for your "rips" and keep them in .wav format if you are going to be making a compilation, that way you don't lose quality compressing them to .mp3 then re-expanding them to .cda, which is the same as .wav.

I've never used the Sony software so I can't be more specific.
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Old 03-29-2003, 10:20 AM   #8
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Take a look at this webpage: Creating Custom CD's Tutorial.

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How to successfully burn an audio CD to play in regular Cd players: http://www.pcmech.com/show/multimedia/72
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