From Kelsey M. Damas Sent Sun, Mar 8th 1998, 19:50
From Kelsey M. Damas Sent Sun, Mar 8th 1998, 19:50
At 02:03 PM 3/8/98 -0500, you wrote:
>my school has a cd-r burner w/ a mac (and Toast). can anyone explain to
>me how download an MP3, then get it into toast so i can burn a disc for
>myself? it would be very, very much appreciated, and asfor
Hiya,
To burn an mp3 to CD-R (this is how I do it anyway):
1. download the file to the local machine. with the aphex site, I prefer
using fetch FTP because if it is busy you can try again really quickly with
little trouble.
2. Drop by www.download.com and pick up "Mpecker Drop Decoder." This will
allow you to take your mp3s, drag and drop them over the Mpecker Icon and
it will automatically convert them to .AIFF. It takes a little while and
ALOT of hard disk space. A 7 Meg mp3 can expand into a 40+ Meg AIFF so be
sure you have the space for it.
3. Sometimes the file isn't in the right format (16 bit, 44.1 sampling
rate) so stick the aiff into a sound editor to be certain (usually they are
in the right format, so this isn't imperative)
4. Tell toast that you wish to use the "Audio CD" format and tell toast
where the AIFFs are (check the manual if you aren't sure how to do this).
Then "Write disk"
5. That's it!
Another alternative, since mp3's are much smaller and the quality is about
the same, is to just burn the mp3's to a cd. You're home stereo won't be
able to play them (or any other regular CD player) but if you are like me
and have your computer hooked up to your stereo (or good multimedia
speakers) you can enjoy hours upon hours upon hours of music on one CD.
WinAmp has some cool plugins to entertain you while you listen, as well.
Also, just a matter of opinion, but instead of downloading "I care because
you do" or any other easily available album from the net, why not just buy
them? You get artwork, a quality disk that you can leave in the sun (I
heard CD-R's are very sensitive to sunlight, can lose data and such), not
to mention supporting the artist and such. I've burned a few things
myself, but those are things I know I will never see in my lifetime (mask2,
joyrex, etc) and thus will never be able to spend my money on. Then again,
you could always use mp3 as sort of a preview of an album to see if you
would even like it.....
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