WHAT TO PROVIDE FOR AUDIO CD REPLICATION?
Please provide a CD-R (PMCD) or an exabyte/DDP. If providing a CD-R , please make sure that the CD-R master provided performs as a regular CD in regular CD players (i.e., you get a track listing and it plays the recording or the music). What you provide on CD-R is exactly what we will manufacture. Technically speaking, audio files should be in the “Red Book” audio format. Practically speaking, progams like Adaptec Toast and Nero, when used properly, will create audio discs in the “Red Book” audio format, usually working from un-data-compressed WAV or AIFF files. Some common mistakes to avoid: (a) Do not provide a CD-R with MP3s. (b) Do not provide a CD-R with a “disc image” or WAV or AIFF files that behave like data files (and are not in the “Red Book” audio format). Testing your CD-R master in a conventional non-computer CD-player will help prevent this mistake. (c) Do not burn a master out of Apple I-Tunes. I-Tunes works from its very own “pre-digested”compressed audio format. The re
