[Dixielandjazz] Sound-file formats for CD player (was: Recitalson the Move)

[Larry Walton Entertainment - St. Louis]

Brian - My DVD player will play a bunch of formats but WAV files are what is 
on a CD for playing on a CD player.  Not all computers will make 
satisfactory CD's for playing on all of the zillions of CD players out 
there.

The CD's that I make on my HP computer do not for some reason like the CD 
player in my car.  It takes about a dozen re inserts to get it to play 
sometimes.  I cleaned the lens and that helped but some CD players are just 
very picky about what they will play.

I would imagine that there is a freebee conversion program out there that 
will convert the files to wav.

What are you recording with?  Your computer?  If it is your computer there 
are programs out there that will turn your computer into a multi track 
recorder and then you can save the files as anything you want then burn a 
CD.

The program that comes with windows for recording is pretty primitive.

I would suggest that you invest the bucks and buy a portable recorder. 
There are literally dozens out there.  The one I have is a ZOOM H4 and it's 
an incredible machine.  The built in mikes are very good and can emulate 
several different mikes.

Check it out.

http://www.zzounds.com/item--ZOMH4

There are a couple of things I would like and that's a place to put it on a 
mike stand but other than that it's an incredible piece of hardware.  It 
will record 3 hours on a 2 gig chip.  And 30 or so in the MP3 mode.  You do 
have to have software - included - to break the recording into tracks and do 
some editing.

You can either take the chip out and plug it into your computer or use the 
cables to download.  I prefer the chip in the computer to download.
Larry
St. Louis
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dan Augustine" <ds.augustine at mail.utexas.edu>
To: "Larry Walton" <larrys.bands at charter.net>
Cc: "Dixieland Jazz Mailing List" <dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>
Sent: Friday, November 16, 2007 2:58 PM
Subject: Re: [Dixielandjazz] Sound-file formats for CD player (was: 
Recitalson the Move)


> Brian (c: DJML)--
>     When i burn CDs on my Mac, the sound-file format has the extension of 
> ".aif" (or ".aiff", for Audio Interchange File Format). I had thought that 
> ".wma" (Windows Media Audio) was the format for IBM-type machines, so i'm 
> puzzled why it won't work for you.  Maybe it's just ".wav" that works.  I 
> would presume that there are also other formats that work.
>
>     Dan
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>From: "Brian Harvey" <brer.rabbit at tiscali.co.uk>
>>Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2007 18:52:54 -0000
>>Subject: [Dixielandjazz] Recitals on the move!
>>Cc: Dixieland Jazz Mailing List <dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>
>>
>>.........Has anyone any idea what format sound files have to be in to be
>>played on a standard Cd player?
>>In other words what format do I have to record files from my library in 
>>for
>>use on a CD player?
>>I do recitals for U3A (University of the Third Age) which is fine if we're
>>here because I can play them from the computer in my studio room at home.
>>If however we are to use other locations I need to transfer the files to 
>>CDs
>>and the usual WMA files don't work on standard players nor will MP3s!
>>Brian Harvey
>
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