Can I burn audio CDs from MP3 files at different bitrates and sampling rates?
The bitrate is not relevant to the CD format – the bitrate is a measure of how severely the data was compressed, but once the file has been converted to a WAV file (and hence decompressed) the bitrate is gone. However, files which were compressed to a lower bitrate (and hence compressed more) will not sound as good as ones which had a higher bitrate… I would listen carefully to a 96kbps file before burning it to CD and ask yourself is the quality really good enough? However… if the *sampling* rate of your MP3 files is something other than 44.1 KHz, you *will* need to resample the files before they can be burned to CD. The sampling rate is quite distinct from the bitrate… it is essentially the number of times per second a sound sample was captured as part of the original recording process. CD audio only supports a sampling rate of 44.1 KHz, so any files that you put onto an audio CD *must* be as that rate. If you have files at a different rate, you will need to use a WAV editing p
