question about NYC audio

[Deep137]

perhaps this is a bit naive of me, but anyway, the CDs that Gloco burned for me came in the mail today and there was that thread about the shittiness of mp3s, etc. so does that mean that I can't or just shouldn't put the CDs on my iPod? I still don't really understand the technology and everything behind these burned CDs because from what you've all been saying about them I'm assuming the songs aren't in mp3 format on the CDs, so as I said, does that mean that they're not compatible with iPods? it's not that I want to fuck up quality or anything, I just want the songs available on my iPod becaues I listen to that a lot more than my CD player and that way I wouldn't have to bring both CDs around with me and risk getting them scratched . . . hope I'm making sense, someone help!

[chris]

Deep:

From what I understand, they are .wav files which is the uncompressed music format that can be listened to on CD players (that don't have to be mp3 compatible CD players). Since they are uncompressed, they have all the frequencies and proper sound that you should be hearing. The .shn files that gloco was talking about is a format that compresses the file size of each song (compared to a .wav file, which is humungous), but it doesn't lose sound quality. He had to convert them to that for transfers over the internet because they don't take up as much server space and don't take as long to transfer.

For the CDs that were sent to you, the files didn't have to be compressed. They are .wav files and totally compatible with your iPod. They will just take up more memory in total. It's just like any other regular music CD that you have.

[peewee]

You could convert them to .wav format and put them on your iPod. That's raw perfect quality that is supported by any player globally. An explanation of how to do this can be found in the third heading down on the pinned NY audio topic.

[Deep137]

oh man, thank you guys so much! huzzah, now iPod can have even more nelly!

[Deep137]

Originally Posted by peewee

You could convert them to .wav format and put them on your iPod. That's raw perfect quality that is supported by any player globally. An explanation of how to do this can be found in the third heading down on the pinned NY audio topic.

you mean to look at the thing under "how to listen to the concert" right? even though I have the cds, do I still have to do the torrent thing? sorry, I just don't really understand anything ever. because the first two sections are about downloading and sharing the files, and although I'd like to share them eventually, for now I just sort of want them on my ipod . . . so, do I need the torrent to be able to copy them from the cd to my computer as wav files? thanks a lot

[chris]

NO!!!

You don't need to do anything. Just upload copies of the files on the CD to your iPod. That should work, I am 99% sure. Try it.

peewee: She was sent one of CDs from gloco in the mail and he's mailing them out in .wav format so no conversion is needed.

[Deep137]

oookay, thanks so much! ah, that's much easier than what I thought I had to do


wait! edit: does it mean anything when I put the cd into my computer to play in musicmatch (I haven't uploaded it to ipod yet) that musicmatch doesn't recognise the files as mp3 or wma or whatever? because when I try to edit the track tags, it doesn't let me--it actually won't let me change anything about the cd

[gloco]

For your own personal use, yes, you can go ahead and convert the show to mp3 for your ipod, I did it for my nomad mp3 player. You might want to use exact audio copy or cdex to extract the wav files to your pc then use a mp3 encoder like exact audio copy to convert them to mp3's or itunes. Try running a search on google for: exact audio copy and also LAME. Lame is the best mp3 encoder out there.

The cd's you guys are receiving from me are burned from the master wav files sitting in my hd.

[chris]

iPod doesn't support .wav? I thought it did.

[shmannon]

Originally Posted by chris

Deep:

From what I understand, they are .wav files which is the uncompressed music format that can be listened to on CD players (that don't have to be mp3 compatible CD players). Since they are uncompressed, they have all the frequencies and proper sound that you should be hearing. The .shn files that gloco was talking about is a format that compresses the file size of each song (compared to a .wav file, which is humungous), but it doesn't lose sound quality. He had to convert them to that for transfers over the internet because they don't take up as much server space and don't take as long to transfer.

For the CDs that were sent to you, the files didn't have to be compressed. They are .wav files and totally compatible with your iPod. They will just take up more memory in total. It's just like any other regular music CD that you have.

NERD!