Audio media considerations/recommendations

[gwlogue]

I have a rather extensive collection of vinyl albums that I want to preserve in digital format. I am starting to copy them to CD and have discovered that the CD's I am creating don't work on some CD players. They work fine on my PC, home music system and in my car but they don't work in a friends vehicle.

I'm wondering of there are considerations for quality of media or compatability between players or ????

My collection is somewhere between 400 and 600 units so I'm making a rather large investment in time and materials. I would like to do it right. Any suggestions or recommendations are appreciated.

Thanks ....g

[Steve R Jones]

The issue is more related to the Type of cd.... R or RW.....Some palyers don't like/do well with RW.

[Sterling_Aug]

And older CD players will have issues with some CD-R media as well. There is no way to know for sure until AFTER you burn a disk and try it.

Using quality media gives you the best chance of success.

Make sure you same the original rips as MP3 format so you can convert them to audio format and burn new CDs when they go bad, warp, crack, get dropped, etc. A spare hard drive would be essential.

[gwlogue]

Thanks for the help. My software, RecordNow Music Lab, has been creating .wav files but it is capable of MP3. So far I have only done 3 albums so I can easily go back and convert them. Thanks very much for the advice. ...g

[Sterling_Aug]

MP3s are tiny (around 4 MB or so each). I can fit 170 MP3s on a cd while I can only fit about 16 audio format songs on the same CD. You do the math and see how many MP3s you can fit on a hard drive.

I convert my MP3s to audio format and burn copies to play in my car. When the disk gets scratched or damaged, then I burn a new copy. No sense letting the original CD get damaged or stolen.

[gwlogue]

Is .wav the audio format you refer to?

[Sterling_Aug]

No, I can convert MP3s to audio format in Nero and it writes the music in the same format as an original music CD.