How do I burn my music onto cd's for djing? So I keep the quality good.

[lenie321]

Hi everybody,

I've a question about how to burn my music on to cd's so I can mix on cdjs. Normally I always use my midi controller.
Only tommorow I'm going to play on cdj's 1000 and they don't have usb ports. So I need to burn my music on cd's. I know how to burn normal cd's but would that keep the sound quality of the songs good?
I hope some of you guys can explain it to me.

Glen

[mostapha]

Yeah. If you normally buy wav, aiff, flac, or alac, burn audio CDs. If you normally use a lossy compression format (e.g., mp3) then either burn audio CDs (but you won't recover quality) or mp3 data CDs with no additional data compression (they'll still sound like crap but won't get worse).

[Scalage]

As long as the mp3 comes from a good source and is of a good bitrate it'll sound just fine. CD quality is noticably better, but mp3's are acceptable in my book. It may be better to burn audio cd's for organisation purposes though. 500 tracks on one disc is really difficult to sift through.

[mostapha]

Once you learn to hear it, mp3s will never sound good enough again.

[Scalage]

Once you learn to hear it, mp3s will never sound good enough again.

I can tell the difference, I just cannot possibly get everything in FLAC of AIFF. It's not reasonable in terms of storage space or price. I still buy CD's to listen to at home and I'll take a CD over an mp3 all other things being equal. But they're not and that's why I choose mp3's for djing.

[atontheproton]

mp3 data cd is fine , sure .wav has a higher bit rate and a bit better quality but , its more practical to go mp3's.

In the end it all boils down to , where are you playing. Are you doing world renown festivals or simply a night club at a local venue.
Even guys touring the world with their music use mp3' 320's because its practical and you have the ease of access to all your music at your finger tips.

[mostapha]

So, your quality standards are lower for your performance than your living room?

That doesn't make any sense to me.

Also, I really don't understand why people keep talking about storage like it matters. 6TB hard drives cost about $250 and can hold about 10,000 hours of uncompressed 44.1/16 audio files, or a bit over a year of uninterrupted playback. Granted, that price more or less tripples when you start to consider backups and the likelihood of unrecoverable read exceptions, but I've never heard anyone else talk about that in relation to music.....so that can't be the reason.

That argument is complete garbage.

[atontheproton]

It wasn't really an argument Mostapha, i am speaking from the fact that I see many guys who play around the world using mp3 320's. I didn't say anything about "my standards are lower for your performance than your living room?"

I think you might have made that part up all on your own. I am saying 320's are fine and there are guys who are highly trained producers still using 320's as they travel and play their music.

Don't know whats garbage about the fact that I have questioned these guys and got answers from them saying 320s work.

[atontheproton]

When you're travelling and need to pack light(all your shit in one bag and maybe a backpack too) certainly storage matters. To deny this is absurd. We got guys coming down from the uk touring our area to play shows. You think they're going to come plug a big ol hd into the decks instead of a USB stick?

Don't gotta go around telling people their posts are garbage , especially with as many posts you have and how long you've been on these forums. You'd think you would have a certain level of respect across these forums from a veteran like you.

You have you opinion, I have mine. I'm not trashing you with my posts so what's the point in belittling someone on here other than you satisfying your personal needs and trying to make yourself feel a bit better in doing so.

I'm just here to give advice from the knowledge I've obtained , not shoot people down.

What's your motivator to be here?

[mostapha]

The same.

The sooner people will accept that mp3 compression is audible the sooner we'll get access to better formats. And, I'm sorry, but I just don't think that storage is that big of a deal. No one tours with their entire collection, and if they do, they've got problems.

No club DJ needs more than a few hundred songs. A 256GB USB key will still hold 400 hours of uncompressed music.

I used to buy the "mobile jocks need everything" argument until I actually started paying attention to what gets played at those kinds of events. There's more truth to it for them.

And I'm sorry. I'm nobody. But it irks me when I hear the cloud of birds or the terrible reverb tails that mp3 compression causes. I don't understand the "junk is good enough for my audience" mentality. There are a lot of things going on to fight sound quality in a typical club...why a DJ would want to compound it at the first step is completely beyond me, especially if it's just to fit another 500 hours of music they're not going to play onto a usb key.