mp3s on dvd to amp to tape

[after_science]

I recently started making mp3 cds for the express use of listening to them on the stand alone dvd player. And that works wonderfully. With the dvd player hooked up to the main stereo is great. My question is about the quality of the sound when recording to a cassette tape (too poor for an mp3 player or even cd player in the car right now). Actually not having a great deal of knowledge, I was somewhat surprised that I was able to record the songs at all without first converting them to wav files like on a regular audio cd. Woo, sorry for this long entry. Just hope I sent this to the right place. Thanks.

[TeeeRex]

Your DVD player is just converting the MP3 into an analogue signal to your amp (or digital to your amp and then your amp is doing the digital to analogue conversion). The result either way is a analogue signal that can be recorded on whatever you like - cd if you have a standalone cd-recorder (which incidentally will convert it back to digital again (sampled) or good old tape (which will stay analogue).

You need to convert MP3's to WAV's to record onto a PC CDROM drive as that is the uncompressed format that music CD's need (to read in any 'normal' music CD device).

All depends on your setup really but I hope the above explains why it worked...

Cheers,