Looking for music burning program advice

[belveder]

Could anyone please recommend a good burning program that will let me burn music at 24 or 32 bit. Nero doesn't so I have to find something else.

Thanks in advance

[CowboySlim]

Well, Belveder, I don't know about the 24 bit/32 bit stuff. However, I use MusicMatch Jukebox to burn Audio CDs and am satisfied with it. You might want to D/L a trial version and test it.

Nice dream catcher. We've got a couple of them around here, somewhere. Bought a real nice double neck jug on the Navajo Reservation this spring - roadside stand, just outside of Page, Arizona.

No worries, mate.

[belveder]

Thanks for the compliment Love American Native stuff, although it's not easy to get here except for dream catchers, every 3rd person is selling them or making them, to commercialized here in that respect.

I tried a demo version MusicMatch 8 and every time I installed it I lost all my CDRoms and had to format, not game to go near it now lol

[Inertia]

belveder,

CD recordings are always made at 16 bits, which means that a 24 bit recording must first be converted to 16 bits before it is recorded as a CD.

There is an interesting discussion of the effect of bit depth and listening tests with results at:
Is 24-bit Recording Really Better?
and Ethan Winer's Bit-Depth Test, Listener Comments
and Analysis of Ethan Winer's Bit-Depth Listening Test

[cfitz]

I see Inertia beat me to the punch. That isn't surprising. He often does.

Anyway, to add just a little bit to Inertia's comments, the reason CD recordings are always made at 16 bits is because the Red Book standard that defines the CD-DA (CD Digital Audio) format requires 16-bit, 44.1 kHz PCM encoding of audio.

If you want to burn CDs with higher resolution, you will have to burn your files as data files on an ISO-9660 data CD in whatever higher resolution format you are using to capture the audio. Then you will probably have to play them back on your computer with a player that is compatible with that higher resolution format. There are some stand-alone devices that will play mp3 files on a data CD, but I don't know about stand-alone players that will play high-resolution formats. By the way, what format are you using?

By the way, don't confuse standard CD-DA discs with the newer Super Audio CD discs. These are a completely different format, and existing burners can not burn Super Audio CDs.

cfitz

[belveder]

Thanks alot for that, now I understand it all, and can stay with Nero, except for the cover printing lol

Thanks again

[Inertia]

You're very welcome.

[CowboySlim]

Belveder,

Maybe the trouble that you were having with MM is that you were burning the wrong kind of music. Seems to work just fine for C&W.

[belveder]

I never burnt any music at all with it, I lost my drives as soon as I installed it lol