FLAC - CDROM - Audio CD Player issues

[kippard]

I have some FLAC files I burned to a CD as files using Imgburn. They won't play in my car CD player. Do I need to burn an special audio CD, or is it the FLAC format which is incompatible? Thank you!

[holistic]

................. Do I need to burn an special audio CD.............

You just did !

.....FLAC format which is incompatible? .....

Most likely


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[kippard]

Thanks. I did think it was as simple as burning a CD. Player is not FLAC compatible, must be. Thanks again.

[Alex_ander]

A standard audio CD doesn't store audio in file form, it stores a specially encoded continious track and a burning application always converts the source files to create such a CD. Some burning programs work with different input files and convert everything to temporary .wav files with standard sample rate 44.1kHz and standard bit-depth 16; in your case there's e.g. FLAC plugin for Nero. For other burning applications with audio CD support (not sure of ImgBurn) you can first decompress your files to .wav with FLAC frontend, then burn in 'audio CD' mode. Then it should work.

[kippard]

Excellent. I suspected there was more to this. Been trying to access the Imgburn forum guides to explore the options but their site is unavailable. Thank you!

[Jim44]

ImgBurn cannot create/burn audio CDs (and yeah, the site's been down for a day or two now ). I don't know off-hand of a audio CD burner that supports FLAC.

Jim

[Noahtuck]

Flac is used to compress WAV files in a lossless format.

Use T R A D E R ' S L I T T L E H E L P E R
http://thor.prohosting.com/roh0205/

To extract the WAV files from the FLAC files/container, then burn the wav files to a CD-R with any music cd burning software, IE: Nero.

[CBC]

or Burrrn
http://www.burrrn.net/?page_id=4

[kippard]

Thanks everyone!

[jimnsb]

I had a similar need, so I d/l'd and installed Burrrn. It seemed pretty straightforward, but when I tried to burn some FLAC files to an audio CD the process failed with this error:
(Drive = Lite-On DVDRW LH-20A1H / OS = Win2k).

I converted them to wav's using the other suggestion (Trader's Little Helper), and then successfully burned those with Nero7, but naturally I'd prefer a single-step solution. Any ideas/info/fixes for that error?

TIA

[Ai Haibara]

jimnsb: You can always try the FLAC plugin for Nero, available on this page:
http://www.bitburners.com/Software/Download/Audio_Software_and_Encoders/Nero_Audio_Plugins/

[jimnsb]

jimnsb: You can always try the FLAC plugin for Nero, available on this page:
http://www.bitburners.com/Software/Download/Audio_Software_and_Encoders/Nero_Audio_Plugins/

I saw a few posts on another forum reporting problems when that plugin is used with Nero7 ...but your mentioning it made me take another look and it appears to work fine for most folks.

It seems one 'issue' was that the installer was placing the plugin in the wrong folder (Nero's directory structure was changed in later versions):
http://forum.bitburners.com/index.php?topic=558.msg1224

I'll give it a try - thanks!

[gsing]

Use burnatonce:
http://www.burnatonce.net/downloads/

burnatonce supports wav, mp3, mp2, ogg and flac as standard.

I think it is one of the best free burning apps and have used it for a long time without any problem. And Nero is just too
Regards