About Gary Housknecht Expertise I can answer questions about use of Goldwave or Roxio Sound Editor. These applications can manipulate .wav and .mp3 sound files in nearly any way imaginable and can clean up unwanted noise. Convert from one sound type to another. Ask about other file types, such as .wma, etc.
Experience Goldwave is the best affordable sound editor I have seen. I have used it and Roxio for a few years. I am not the best at answering technical questions about all the terms relative to wave forms and so forth but I generally know where to get such answers.
Question I just ripped a bunch of music files and saved them as MP3 files in an attemt to shrink them.
To my surprise, when I tryed to burn a CD that I intendet to play in a regular CD player, they either would not play, or would reconvert and take just as much space up as the original files.
Is that just the way it is, or is ther a way to schrink and burn music to be played on a regular CD player?
Thanks for your help
Answer When you burn to a music CD ...
.wav files stay the same
.mp3 files are converted to .wav format at full size.
... because all standard music CD's are in a slightly encrypted .wav format.
If you burn specifically to a CD or mini-CD as an .mp3 disc for playing on an MP3 player, then the .mp3 file size remains the same. Not all ripping/burning software can burn an MP3 disc. I am not sure, but an MP3 disc may just be a data disc with .mp3 files copied to it - not sure. But in any case it would not play in a standard CD player.
Some programs will shrink a .wav file some but quality is diminished. On average, I generally can fit 18 to 26 songs on a music CD (700 MBytes). Average song is 30 to 32 MB.
