Talk:Burning music files to a CD

{{ednote|1=Gale 23Feb13: There is a hole in our coverage here of longer than red book CDs (overburned audio CDs and data CDs, and what will play the latter).
 * Peter 25Mar13: Agreed - I will work on this page.

This Page
Some good information is still at http://wiki.audacityteam.org/index.php?title=How_to_burn_CDs but that wasn't realised when that page was made legacy. http://wiki.audacityteam.org/index.php?title=How_to_burn_CDs is headed as "legacy" so you cannot send users there from here, and that legacy status is also confusing if you arrive there from the non-legacy http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/Audio_CD.

I've pasted below information copied from http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/How_to_burn_CDs that should IMO be non-legacy. On balance I think we should:
 * [incorporate that material here?]
 * Peter 25Mar13: I incorporated that material on this page and accordingly removed it from this ednote.
 * Give a decent sentence or two here about what data CDs are and what can play them.
 * Peter 26Mar13: Done.
 * And about overburning.
 * Peter 26Mar13: done.
 * Link to http://wiki.audacityteam.org/index.php?title=How_to_burn_CDs for details of those matters.
 * Peter 26Mar13: The details are all here now - so no need for a link to the Wiki.
 * Consider if the Windows Media Player note div on http://wiki.audacityteam.org/index.php?title=How_to_burn_CDs should be here.
 * Peter 25Mar13: Done.
 * Consider if better details for where to choose Audio CD burning in WMP and iTunes should be provided here (remember how often users miss this). If so we should cover iTunes 10 and 11 and WMP 11 and 12 here.
 * Peter 26Mar13: I considered this but decided instead to just palce a reminder re "Audio CD" setting. I really don't think we should be going into the details of other software, including various earlier versions, only the princples - we should leave the deatails for Bill's & Steve's folk to document imo.
 * Also note that FAQ:Opening_and_Saving_Files says to come here for information on burning longer "data" CDs, but there is almost nothing here, and no link to where to find it.
 * Peter 26Mar13: Fixed this, updated the FAQ with an added link to the new section with the "longer" anchor.

Wiki & SF Pages
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 * Remove the legacy status from http://wiki.audacityteam.org/index.php?title=How_to_burn_CDs.
 * On that page, remove the detailed steps Audio CDs 1 - 4.
 * Also on that page point legacy users to http://web.audacityteam.org/help/faq_i18n?s=files&i=burn-cd (tweaked to give the Audacity version variations).
 * Also on that page point current users here for steps.
 * Peter 26Mar13: I do not agree with this part of the plan:
 * All the relevant 2.0.4+ information now resides on this page.
 * This leaves much unnecessary duplication in the Wiki.
 * The only legacy information that could be reqired in the Wiki is an explabation of the two different methods for setup and exporting. 1.2.x operates differently in this regard from early 1.3.x and at some stage in the 1.3 Beta cycle we transitioned to the current modus operandi ''(I can't remember with which 1.3.x that transion occurred, but it will be important to note that in the Wiki if we document legacy methods there.
 * Maybe we should consider just deprecating the Wiki page and just providing a link to this page in the manual?
 * I note that the SF site page links to the Wiki. Surely it should link to the Manual (current released version) as the up-to-date version that we want to encourage users to implement?  I don't have any privileges to edit the SF site so that would need to be tackled by someone with such privileges if thought appropriate, Gale?
 * I can't for the life of me find any navigation route on the SF site to the SF "How do I save my recording on an audio CD?" page - I can only get there using the Search function. Is this page really relevant, should it be deprecated or should it just have links to the Manual and the Wiki (if we retain the Wiki page)?

"It is important to burn an Audio CD (Music CD) and not a Data CD. A data CD will play happily on your computer but is extremely unlikely to play in a standalone CD player."

Steve 23Sept11:Is this overstating the likelihood of data CDs not playing on a standalone CD player? Quite a lot of CD players these days are advertised as supporting MP3 disks, which afaik are just data disks with MP3 files. I don't know the proportion of CD players that support MP3 disks, but perhaps we should say "may not play"" or "is unlikely to play"?
 * Peter 3Apr12: agreed and done.

Peter 2Apr12: The information on cue sheets below was transferred here from the Wiki in case we think we need it in the manual.
 * Gale 02Apr12: Yes I added this as a ToDo-2 omission.
 * Peter 3Apr12: Ok I moved the Cue Sheets info the tutorial,makes sense to have it there - and removed the P2