making an audio-cdr readable to cd-players in toast

alexandr · #1 September 27th, 2004, 04:19 PM

as i'm importing my .wav-files into toast it automaticly converts the to .aif-files. for some reason theese cd's wont play on my regular home-stereo. i was sure that normal cd's(out of the shop) came with .wav-files on them, so why does Toast want to make .aif's. isn't this what may be screwing them up, making them unreadable for home-stereo-systems?

is there any way to keep theese files as .wav's and still be able to make an audio cd in toast? would burning the cd as data-cd, containing .wav's maybe be a valid format for a normal cd-player?

alex.

perfessor101 · #2 September 27th, 2004, 05:51 PM

Normal commercial CDs come with .aiff files not .wav. Many newer CD players can read MP3 too.

Admittedly I have not tried burning audio CDs with Toast, I find it easier to use iTunes, but I have no trouble with CD players reading the ones I burn and they are all aiff. I have complete confidence that a music CD burned with Toast would work just as well as the iTunes as long as the music tracks are aiff. A Toast, or Finder, data CD would be in HFS+, ISO9660, or a hybrid HFS+/ISO9660 format that I guarantee your CD player will not be compatible with but then it still would not be compatible with the .wav files.

I don't know why your CDs are not being read, but it could be the media you are using. I learned long ago that all CD-Rs, or CD-RWs, are not created equal and the cheaper they are the less equal they are. While we are on the subject CD-RWs are almost always less compatible than CD-Rs.

ElDiabloConCaca · #3 September 27th, 2004, 08:35 PM

I could be mistaken, but I believe that Audio CDs are in a format of their own. Mac OS X just makes this data show up as TIFF files.

If you put the CD into a Windows machine, I'd be willing to bet that you won't see AIFF or WAV files.

When you burn a CD, you must burn it as an Audio CD format -- you can't just put a bunch of AIFF or WAV files on it and expect it to play, if that's in fact what you were doing.

alexandr · #4 September 28th, 2004, 07:35 AM

no, thats not what i did, but i wasn't quite sure..
anyway, i'll try with aiff-files, and seef if you got any luck playing it on my stereo..

thanks for responding

alex.

perfessor101 · #5 September 28th, 2004, 11:05 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ElDiabloConCaca

I could be mistaken, but I believe that Audio CDs are in a format of their own. Mac OS X just makes this data show up as TIFF files.

If you put the CD into a Windows machine, I'd be willing to bet that you won't see AIFF or WAV files.

When you burn a CD, you must burn it as an Audio CD format -- you can't just put a bunch of AIFF or WAV files on it and expect it to play, if that's in fact what you were doing.

There are two formats involved, first is the format of the file system on the CD and ElDiabloConCaca is correct audio CDs have their own unique CD format. Then there is the format of the audio files themselves which are .aiff not .tiff (tiff is a Tagged Image Format File as in a graphic). Both the CD format and the file format must be correct for your stereo system to play the music on the CD.

If you put the CD into a Windoze machine you will not see the extension, no matter what it is unless Windows Explorer is set to show the extension, by default the extension is hidden.

btoth · #6 September 28th, 2004, 11:13 AM

Just make sure that you're burning an Audio CD or Enhanced Audio CD and not just copying music files to a Data CD. Then, if it still doesn't play, it's probably the quality of the media.

I've had bad luck with a lot of cheap CD-R spindles... I've been having the best luck with Fuji, used to like Memorex until I got a batch that a few of my players couldn't read reliably.