Questions regarding Sony Voice Recorders and mp3 title/artist notations and iTunes and mp3 title/artist notations

[Keola Donaghy]

Heather, when you burn an audio CD you lose all that information, it is not stored in AIF files, nor WAV (if I'm not mistaken, in WAVs as well, but not sure). MP3, AAC, MP4 and other formats allow you to store that meta-data along with the audio.It is an audio CD. What you want to do is make a data CD and simply copy the MP3s to it.

If you want to make a data CD that can be read on PC, you need to format a CD for PC on your Mac (yes, you can do this). Don't use iTunes to burn the CD, or it will simply convert them back and you lose the meta-data. Drag them to the CD icon from iTunes, and just burn the CD in the Finder. The "burn" icon should appear in the left hand column of your finder window; it looks like the "nuclear waste" icon you also see in iTunes, if I'm not mistaken.

This CD you can use to copy them to a PC. Also, since they are MP3s, you can copy many more to a CD since they are compressed. You can put perhaps 100 MP3s or more on a data CD like this, whereas you may only get 10-15 in AIFF.

Keola

On 2010 Kep. 3, at 14:35, Heather Souter wrote:

> If I download mp3 files recorded on a Sony ICD-SX750 to a Mac and use iTunes to create a CD,  is it only possible to save the data as .aiff files?  If yes, is this why the information encoded does not show up when played by non-Mac players?  If no, how do I create "non-aiff" CDs using iTunes?  Or, is there a free audio management/CD burning tool that I can use on a Mac to create CDs with mp3 files that can be read by PCs, car audio systems, non-iPod mp3 players as well as Macs and iPods?



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Keola Donaghy                                           
Assistant Professor of Hawaiian Studies 
Ka Haka 'Ula O Ke'elikolani             keola at leoki.uhh.hawaii.edu 
University of Hawai'i at Hilo           http://www2.hawaii.edu/~donaghy/

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