[iTunes] Burning CD's properly

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[iTunes] Burning CD’s properly

Hey there,

So tomorrow i’m going to a friend of mine to practice using CDJ’s (CDJ 800), and i decided to burn some of my own music. He told me to burn some WAV’s.

I have a playlist of 8 320kbp MP3’s, and i have used iTunes to turn them into 1411 kbp WAV’s.

I have put these WAV’s into another playlist and selected “Burn playlist to CD”, Select “Audio disk” and the slowest burning speed (1x).

Now when the CD’s finished and i look it up @ Finder (Mac), it contains 8 Songs in AIFF-C-Audio formats…

What is this? I selected to burn them as WAV’s to my CD and now they’re some sort of weird format? Is this normal?

My old Sony CD-Player does play the tracks without a problem…

Did I do something wrong or are my CD’s fine?

Thanks in advance,

Bob

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Easiest way to explain is .aif files are uncompressed the same as wav’s. Only difference really is .aif was made by Apple, and .wav was made by Microsoft.

Edit: Same size/quality etc.. just iTunes uses it’s own file type.

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IMHO you should burn the cd’s directly from the mp3’s as audio cd’s and use the max speed offered or at least the second faster.

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If they’re 320’s there’s no benefit to burning them as wav. They will not be any better.

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he’s better off to burn them as wav/aiff being that he might play a gig that the cdjs dont play mp3s.

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You do have a point Mr. JesC

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ive seen it happen at gigs, where djs show up with mp3 cds only or vbr mp3 instead of cbr and the cds dont work.

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i know this might be off topic a tad… but… say you have 320kbp songs and record a mix in traktor which saves as wav, but then u convert it to 320kbp mp3…will it be the same qaulity as started or will it be less? soz just came across my mind speaking :smiley:

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What I meant was to burn audio CD’s directly from the 320 mp3’s. Doing so will save time maintain the quality, and ensure his cd’s will be useable in any CDJ.

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Wont this make them mp3’s on the CD then? Not all CDJ’s play MP3?

Thanks for all replies :slight_smile:

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I have seen DJ’s turn up to gigs with DVD’s = mega fail

but .wav is a much more suported format than .mp3 in CD-DJ’s terms :slight_smile:

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No when choosing the audio cd option the songs will be written as uncompressed cd-audio same as .wav .aif

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Don’t worry about the CD showing up as AIFs in the Finder; that’s just how the Mac represents audio CDs, each track is shown as an individual AIF file.