On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 12:50 PM, Mike <mdclayton@cox.net> wrote:
> Is it possible to make a DVD from a downloaded music file for personal
> use.If so how ?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Mike
>
The short answer to your question is "yes" as long as your computer has a
DVD drive.
How also has a short answer. " It depends." The simple method is just to
copy it to a DVD on your DVD drive. It is now available for personal use on
any computer with a DVD drive. It will, however, not play in your CD player
or for that matter in your regular DVD player.
I'm going to make kind of a jump in logic and assume that you have a CD
drive that will burn CDs and you want to make a CD that will work in a CD
player. The answer is still, "it depends." The big thing is what format is
your music file in. If it happens to be a wave file (one of the files with
a .wav extension) you are home free. Otherwise you have to find some
program to convert the file to a wave file OR you have to have a program
that will play the file AND burn CDs. The free program Audacity will, for
example, import MP3 files and export wave files. Windows media player will
read files in several formats and allow you to burn CDs. For that matter
BIAB will let you burn CDs from music that is in midi format and will also
import audio tracks in some formats and let you burn from an empty song with
just an audio track.
Some formats are specifically designed to allow the music supplier to
control what you do with the music. Others are obscure enough that you can
only find a player, not a piece of software for converting to a wave file.
For cases like these you can get a cheap little patch cord from your local
radio shack that is designed to plug into your computer's headphone plug on
one end and plug into the computer's microphone plug on the other. Then you
run a program to record what comes in on the microphone
while simultaneously playing the music. You normally will wind up with
quite a bit of blank recording around the music, but that's okay since it's
easy enough to edit out the part that has nothing going on with Audacity or
a similar program. There may also be a noticeable loss of sound quality if
you have a cheap sound card that doesn't do a very good job of redigitizing
the incoming sound. With a decent sound card, there's probably going to be
less of a quality drop than there will be converting it into CD format.
Okay, let's say you have a folder full of wave files that you want to burn
to CD. I have experience burning them three different ways. Starting with
Vista, there's actually software to burn CDs built into the operating system
itself. Once I've told windows that my folder is a music folder, a burn to
CD button is one of the options listed at the top of my folder. My usual
method nowadays is to build a playlist inside Media Player and then use the
"burn" option there. Finally I have an ancient Roxio CD creator program
that still runs fine on my XP machine.
Regardless of software used to burn the CD, you still wind up at a windows
box with tons of options to control the actual CD burning. In my experience
you should leave almost all of this at the default with three possible
exceptions. If a large proportion of the CDs you create are turning out
duds and you aren't using cheapo CD's, you might try doing something like
reducing the burn rate from 600X or where-ever it's at, down to something
modest like 4X. It will take longer to burn the CD, but your computer is
less likely to lag behind what it's supposed to be doing in the middle of a
burn.
The second exception is a control of how many copies of the CD you are going
to burn. I normally leave this at the default of 1 except before Christmas
when I'm cranking out my annual Christmas CD.
The other exception is a check box to finalize the CD. Until the CD is
finalized you can't play it on a CD player. After the CD is finalized you
can't add any more music to it. Normally I'm burning a lot of songs at once
onto a CD instead of adding them one song at a time, so I usually finalize,
which is not the default.
A final note is that some small percent of the CD's you burn are going to be
duds. Coasters if you will, cause they aren't good for anything else. This
happens. So don't depend on a CD being good until you test play it, and a
single CD that doesn't work is not a reason to panic.
So... Once again, the answers to your questions are "Yes" and "It depends."
So, give it a try. If you run in to trouble, come back here with specific
information about what you did and exactly what went wrong, and perhaps
someone can help you or make a suggestion what to try instead. There is
also a possibility that what you are trying to ask is how to make a CD from
a BIAB file you downloaded; (this being a BIAB group and all) in which case
you should ask again, but more clearly. It's also possible that you want to
burn music on a DVD and have it play back on a CD player and that isn't
going to happen. Let us know how it goes.
Clif
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