CD burning ?......file extensions........

[Dwayne]

I have 2 albums on my harddrive that I want to burn to an audio cd. One of them is a .flac extension and the other is dvda.....what type of file do I want to convert to so when I burn it I can play on a home or car cd player ? I have Xilisoft video convertor Ultimate and these are the choices I have to convert to

.aac
.ac3
.aiff
.m4a
.mp2
.mp3
.oqq
.ra
.au
.wav
.wma



I know that if I convert it to .mp3 it might not play in some older cd players and the .wma is for windows media player..

.......any cd junkies out there that can lead a poor white boy in the right direction ?

 

[granatl]

For a true audio CD, WAV. Most burning software can convert MP3's on the fly.

FLAC is a lossless compression algorithm, whereas most aren't. In other words, what quality you put into FLAC is the same you get out -- but with most like MP3, it clips high/low sounds, etc. to make the file smaller, so you lose quality.

Some extensions you listed include DRM, like M4A (if I remember correctly). These ones "can" be extra hassle.

 

[noslo6]

I have 2 albums on my harddrive that I want to burn to an audio cd. One of them is a .flac extension and the other is dvda.....what type of file do I want to convert to so when I burn it I can play on a home or car cd player ? I have Xilisoft video convertor Ultimate and these are the choices I have to convert to

.aac
.ac3
.aiff
.m4a
.mp2
.mp3
.oqq
.ra
.au
.wav
.wma



I know that if I convert it to .mp3 it might not play in some older cd players and the .wma is for windows media player..

.......any cd junkies out there that can lead a poor white boy in the right direction ?

Winamp will convert the flac files to mp3 or wma and then you can use Nero or whatever burning program you use to create an audio CD. HTH.

 

[Dwayne]

Thanks guys........I do use nero to burn with, will it automatically convert the flac file to mp3 or wma when I choose the "burn audio cd" tab ?