[rjc3]

can anyone help me get my mp3's burned onto a cd that will work on a regular audio cd player? I've converted my mp3's to AIFF using drop decoder, and then I can set up toast for an audio cd, drag a handful of AIFF songs to toast and tell it to burn, but it invariably fails to write properly. it seems to give up after burning the first track. i'm sure there is some simple way for this to work, can someone give me a few pointers? thanks.

[exa]

Yeah, simply drag the mp3s over toast, try that... toast converts mp3s to cda on the fly (no, cd format is NOT Aiff, so the Aiff step is useless)...

[rjc3]

hmm...my copy of toast (4.1 deluxe) doesn't convert the mp3's to a format usable on regular audio cd players, if I just drag the mp3s onto toast and tell it to burn an audio cd, I get a disk with mp3s on it (not usable on my car cd player). are you sure audio cds aren't encoded using AIFF format? i'm pretty sure I need to convert my mp3s to aiff first before they will play on a normal cd player, but somebody slap me if I'm wrong. do i need to use jam for this or will toast suffice? maybe i need to make a disk image of my cd with jam and then burn it? anyone?

[SupahCoolX]

i have toast 4.1 regular.. i just choose "audio cd" from the popup menu, drop in a load of mp3s, and burn away... the resulting audio CDs work in any CD player (even my Sega DreamCast)...

[exa]

Aye, you must make sure you are burning an audio cd (hit cmd+5 in toast). Then you can drag any audio file, aiff, mp3, many should work, I know mp3 does. The cd format I think is called "orange box" or something, not sure. It is not anything you normally use on a computer.

[Cipher13]

If possible use aiffs, as they require the least amount of runtime and RAM to convert to the audio CD standard. Your prob is probably RAM. Increase the RAM cache in Toast Prefs.
What burner/comp you using? USB?

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[GORDYmac]

Also, make sure you are using CDR's and not CDRW's, as most CD players cannot read the latter.

I've never tried using MP3's in Toast, I've always converted to AIFF first in SoundJam. Did they add that ability in 4.1 OEM?

[Cipher13]

I thought only 4.1 deluxe could do mp3's, not OEM...

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[l008com]

When I drag MP3's in to Toast, it tells me that most of my MP3's are not infact MP3's, it says they are MP1's or MP2's. I have to convert all my MP3's into AIFF's to get them to burn as audio format.

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[iBorg]

I've just started burning CD's, and the MP3's I've burned work fine by just dragging them from the desktop onto Toast (4.1 OEM). I have had a couple that Toast warned were "corrupted," which seemed strange since they played fine with SoundJam - I just download another copy of the tune, and it works fine!

Now, I just have to read about how to burn sequential sections of the CD - I have a couple of "coasters" with only 1 or 2 tunes.....



iBorg

[Cipher13]

The spoken of corruption is probably an outdated version of the ID3 tags or corruption in them.
Even though mp3's are meant to work, is strongly suggest converting to aiff then burning those...

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