Advice wanted: Recording audio direct to CD

syntax error · Post by **syntax error** » Fri Jul 16, 2004 5:46 am

Hi folks,

Can any of you recommend a good (free/cheap) application which allows the recording of live audio direct to CD?
I have a work collegue who wishes to do some live mixing and save the results onto 79 minute CD-R discs.

At the moment he uses CoolEdit to record the mix, save as MP3, then burn to disc. As you can imagine, encoding a 79 minute recording takes time.

Also, he reports on having problems playing back the 79 minute recordings. He says Windoze Media player only plays about 6 seconds worth.
Is there a limit on how long an MP3 track can be?

Num3 · Post by **Num3** » Sat Jul 17, 2004 10:38 am

He should use winamp... I gess media player tries to cache the MP3 file instead of stream it directly, thus only playing 6 seconds.

You should also create several audio tracks on the burned CD without the 2 second audio delay between then...

If your matte has enough space he should save the mixing in pure wav file because:

a) Faster recording and less cpu intensive
b) It's lossless
c) It's much faster to edit a huge wav file than an Mp3, cause the Mp3 has to be decoded back to wav for editing
d) All burning software converts Wav -> CD Audio on the fly
e) 79minutes +/- 650 Mb of wav (smaller than todays games)

syntax error · Post by **syntax error** » Sun Jul 18, 2004 8:23 am

Thankyou Num,

After looking around and reading up on some other advice I'll get a copy of Nero Burning Rom. This seems to be the easier solution for putting track lists together and burning to CDR.

*.wav format it is then.