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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

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arrakian
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One thing I would recommend is using Taiyo-Yuden CD-Rs. I have used them exclusively for years with no problems. I normally use other applications to burn my CD-Rs from AIFF files, but recently, I have been experimenting with using iTunes to convert Apple Lossless and MP3 files to audio compilation disc, still without the problems you describe.

As far as you burning in iTunes, are you using "Disc At Once" or "Track At Once" in the iTunes preferences? I also burn at the slowest speed possible to get a finished product that plays most anywhere.
arrakian
36 posts
 
Sorry for the references to "DAO" and "TAO" in the above post; I was thinking of another app. iTunes defaults is "Disc aat Once" since it finalizes the CD whether it has one track or is full.
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