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Burning CD-Rs from iTunes and Apple Lossless Files

I have recently started to use iTunes with the Apple Lossless compression scheme as recommended by some of you.

In general, I think its great, and find it very listenable, a cinch to use on my iPods etc.

I am curious, however, about what happens to these files when burning it back onto a CD-R, to make a compilation for the car stereo, for example.

I was very excited to easily cut, paste and rip compilation CDs from my library in Itunes, but the first one I tried in the car seemed to take about 150 years for the player to read the disc.

In the end, the disc seemed to play just fine, but it took a while and would also pause again every time I changed tracks.

Made my SCD-1 seem lightning quick by comparison?!

Could this be related to using the Apple lossless files as my archive?
cwlondon
ljgj
955 posts
 
I have been burning from Itunes since they began and have never had
the problem you state until now. It only happened when I used the
Verbatim brand digital vinyl/CD-R discs. When I went back to the
Memorex, TDK and Maxell everything was normal again. What brands
did this for you? I was not using the Lossless setting but the WAV one.
Have you heard improvements using the Lossless setting over the
others?
cwlondon OP
1,210 posts
 
Ligi

I have not heard improvements with Apple Lossless but have found it to be acceptably high fidelity and the files are still compressed to some degree which saves disc space.

Another benefit over WAV files for iPod users is that they dont drain battery life as quickly. Aplle Lossless files can also be tagged with track information in Itunes very quickly and easily and last time I checked, this was not the case with WAV files.

Some people seem to think that the Apple lossless files are indistinguishable from uncompressed, although I find that hard to believe.

Not sure what disc I have out in the car, but it may have been an old Sony disc hanging around since the purchase of my outboard CD burner ages ago. I dont know if the CDR brand is the culprit here or not and would love to hear from others.

Today, I couldnt get the burned CD to load at all.
photon46
1,082 posts
 
I too experienced problems with anything other than WAV files when using Verbatim cd-rs. Once I switched to WAV, I've had no problems of any sort. My Cambridge Azur 640c would not read AIFF or Apple Lossless at all on Verbatim cd's, but would read AIFF burns on other brands. Will
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