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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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ljgj
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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?
ljgj
955 posts
 
I was using AIFF on the Verbatim now that I think about it. I recently switched to WAV but haven't tried it on the Verbatim that I have left. I will have to check out Photon46's findings.
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