I have a quick question. Is there any sound or quality difference to creating a cd with MP3 files as opposed to WAV files?
A. Creating an AudioCD from MP3s does not degrade the original quality of the sound inside the MP3 files. So you should not see any quality impact. MP3 files are “lossy compression”… converting to WAV does not degrade the quality as WAV files are uncompressed. There would be a quality issue to rip from CD to MP3 then back to CD… it’s better to do CD -> WAV -> CD as wav is uncompressed (not lossy). Do CD to WAV to CD if your have the original CDs, other wise you don’t have a choice. Q. My husband has some old albums. He has a cd burner and wants to record some of the songs off the album onto the cd’s. How can you do this? Can he run a wire from the stereo to the back of the sound card on the computer? Then does he copy those songs onto the hard drive? What format do they copy in? What program should he use to convert the wav file, (if that is what it copies onto the hard drive as) , to a mp3 file to put on the cd? Can you explain some of this to me? I am totally ignorant with all th