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NakedDeadGuy
1 Mar 2002, 16:02
I got this disk from a bloke at work today with 26 Beatles albums on it. It has it's own player in it, I was wondering if anyone else has this and if it's somehow possible to burn what songs you like onto a cd that's playable on a normal cd player?
Cheers
carneagles
2 Mar 2002, 12:27
26 Beatles albums?
Docker_Brat
2 Mar 2002, 14:47
Originally posted by carneagles
26 Beatles albums?
Some weeks ago, a bloke at work was telling me that his daughter had a CD with 26 Beatles albums on it, I was very sceptical. Would they all fit in MP3 format?
To answer the question, if they ARE in MP3 format, yes you can burn songs onto a normal CD.
If you have a DVD player like mine, you may be able to play the MP3's. If not, burning them is the only option. Although, 26 albums sounds like they are all encoded at 96 or 128kbps, so the quality will not be the best.
I didn't know the Beatles had 26 albums..... :confused:
NakedDeadGuy
3 Mar 2002, 20:57
There is all their albums plus compilations such as the red & blue ones brought out a couple of years ago. There is only one file on the disk which is an exe file which brings up the in-built player - which is why I ask if anyone knows how to extract individual songs when you can't see them on the disk layout via windows explorer.
Anyways,
Cheers
Dr AlfAndrews
3 Mar 2002, 21:23
NDG,
As far as I understand these things, you can't play mp3 files on a normal CD player.
To get them into a format that would enable you to play them on a normal garden-variety CD player, you would first need to record them as .wav files in a program such as CoolEdit. You can do this easily enough by setting the mixer to record "What-U-Hear", then hitting the record button in Cool Edit. Then you play one of the mp3 files from your original CD and record each song as a separate file, which you can then "top-and-tail" using the editing features in CoolEdit. It's a fiddly process, but it works.
When you've got all the tracks from each album into .wav file format, you can burn the album on to an Audio CD.
Repeat the process for all 26 albums. It will keep you busy for a long time.
Mind you, my set up is a few years old. There may be an easier way these days.
Originally posted by lioness22
I didn't know the Beatles had 26 albums..... :confused:
They dont ?:confused: ?
Dr AlfAndrews
4 Mar 2002, 13:43
Hey Jod ... (that would make a good song title, don't you think)
The Beatles have probably got 126 albums out by now ... 1,026 if you count all the remixes and bootlegs.
Although their work was confined to a finite period in history, the repackaged "greatest hits" collections and other oddities will keep on coming out forever ... you can bet your bottom dollar on that.
Originally posted by Dr AlfAndrews
Mind you, my set up is a few years old. There may be an easier way these days.
Yep, it is. Have you tried nero alf?
Burns MP3's, no more need to convert them back to wav.
www.nero.com
As for the number of albums, they'd have thousands of bootlegs.
Dr AlfAndrews
6 Mar 2002, 02:45
M29,
I've got Nero ... but it won't let me burn mp3 files on to an AUDIO CD. When I try to put an mp3 file into a compilation I get a message that says "unexpected file format" or something like that. It will only let me burn mp3 files on to a DATA CD. I would then need an mp3 player to play them.
I've had that version of Nero since 1999. Is there a newer version that can make mp3 files playable on an AUDIO CD?
Originally posted by Dr AlfAndrews
M29,
I've got Nero ... but it won't let me burn mp3 files on to an AUDIO CD. When I try to put an mp3 file into a compilation I get a message that says "unexpected file format" or something like that. It will only let me burn mp3 files on to a DATA CD. I would then need an mp3 player to play them.
I've had that version of Nero since 1999. Is there a newer version that can make mp3 files playable on an AUDIO CD?
I use Nero and burning Mp3's into Audio CD's works fine for me?
Originally posted by Dr AlfAndrews
I've had that version of Nero since 1999. Is there a newer version that can make mp3 files playable on an AUDIO CD?
Yes, try version 5 or 5.5 is the newest, released late 2001.
If the BEATLES have like 1000 albums inc bootlegs....... well the Beach Boys would have about 10 times that amount!!!!! :eek: Oh yeah I knew that. :D lol
Maggie Greg
12 Mar 2002, 00:08
I have a pirate copy of that CD. It has all the original albums, plus many other compilations already mentioned also The Essential Beatles, Beatles Ballads, Rock & Roll Music etc etc etc.
As for the technicalities dont ask me!
But as for The Beatles, definitely ask me. Certified BEATLEMANIAC.
There are songs and music and on a level about three hundred miles higher there is Beatles' music.
Originally posted by Maggie Greg
But as for The Beatles, definitely ask me. Certified BEATLEMANIAC. There are songs and music and on a level about three hundred miles higher there is Beatles' music.
what a coincidence to find this thread.
I was rearranging my library and was putting our collection of Beatles books way up on top and one slipped out...the one by that obsessive guy which chronicles evey hour in their recording career and I spent an hour looking at it...then had to listen to the "anthology" recording esp #3...what a delight their creative harmonies are as well as their melodies which were sometimes overpowered by the George Martin over-production.
Maggie Greg
13 Mar 2002, 12:03
Originally posted by NYMets
what a coincidence to find this thread.
I was rearranging my library and was putting our collection of Beatles books way up on top and one slipped out...the one by that obsessive guy which chronicles evey hour in their recording career and I spent an hour looking at it...then had to listen to the "anthology" recording esp #3...what a delight their creative harmonies are as well as their melodies which were sometimes overpowered by the George Martin over-production.
You are dead rigth about their melodies and harmonies. Very distinctive. But they never fell into the trap of re-recording the same song with only a slight variation to create a new single. They kept on evolving and developing.
Mark Lewisohn is the guy who wrote the Beatles books and was also involved in Anthology.
yeah that's the guy..supposedly he's researched them so well that he used to fill in gaps in the Sgt Pepper period when they were too stoned to remember.
I think in their furtile period say mid to late 60's , they didn't need to re-do melodies - they had so many. Love to have been a fly on the wall in John's house with them sitting around with guitars strumming and humming their just-made-up tunes.
:)