Most ancient backwards compatible CD format

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Wanderer replied

19 November 2012, 18:33
Originally posted by OwlHoot View Post

I have to transfer a load of audio tapes onto CD for the aged Ps, burning these with a brilliant program called Imgburn

Buy them an iPod and stuff the recordings on that in MP3 format. Job's a good 'un.
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vetran replied

19 November 2012, 13:03
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VectraMan replied

18 November 2012, 17:08
WHS. I had a 10-year old Pioneer player that wouldn't play audio-CDRs, so not even that old or cheap. Being able to play recordable CDRs as opposed to proper printed CDs is a relatively new thing I think.
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doodab replied

18 November 2012, 16:02
ISO 9660, Juliet, and UDF are filesystems which are used on data CDs. To play in an actual CD player you'll want to burn an audio (red book) CD not a data CD.

CD format is uncompressed 16 bit stereo @ 44.1 KHz. You can record in that format but if you intend to do any processing (e.g. noise reduction) recording in 24 bit and dithering down to 16 bits is probably a better bet.

You may find that if their player is particularly old it won't play certain kinds of recordable CDs, so you might need to experiment.

Alternatively, buy them an iPod and put the audio on that. It will probably work out cheaper.

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OwlHoot started a topic Most ancient backwards compatible CD format

18 November 2012, 14:56
Most ancient backwards compatible CD format

I have to transfer a load of audio tapes onto CD for the aged Ps, burning these with a brilliant program called Imgburn

I've managed to obtain raw sound files of the tapes (not at a brilliant bit rate it must be said - I may have to go back and retry that stage of the operation with Honestech VHS to DVD 5.0 Deluxe which I bought in Maplins yesterday).

However, Imgburn has a bewilderingly large number of options for the CD format, including ISO 9660, Juliet, and UDF, pluss various combinations of these.

Now knowing my parents, they probably have the earliest wax cylinder model of CD player ever sold, c. 1901 or thereabouts. So in summary I was wondering what would be the most basic, conservative, backwards compatible, CD format and options to choose in order to work on any CD player. I mean did Joliet come before ISO 9660 for example?
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