Mp3 Format

**mandsinellijay** · 02-28-2003, 05:09 AM

When I try to burn my music from Kazaa Lite, I get a message that it is not the correct format. I use to download and burn, then my harddrive crashed. I had to re-install KL and now when I download, it's all MP3 format. Can I change that? How? HELP.

**The Great Dude** · 02-28-2003, 05:10 AM

What kind of burner are you using?

**mandsinellijay** · 02-28-2003, 05:14 AM

It came already on my Toshiba Satellite laptop - DVD-ROM/CD-RW drive.

**Ynhockey** · 02-28-2003, 12:03 PM

Well, if it's an mp3 then there can be two possible reasons:

a) It's not really an mp3, but someone renamed it to mp3 and it still plays in WinAmp/WMP 'cause they recognize the orignial format as well.

B) It's a highly compressed mp3, which many CDRs aren't capable of writing.

If it's reason B (you should see by the size of the file), then just download the song(s) again with a bigger filesize. If that doesn't work, try using different burning software.

**J'Pol** · 02-28-2003, 08:40 PM

Originally posted by mandsinellijay@28 February 2003 - 06:09
When I try to burn my music from Kazaa Lite, I get a message that it is not the correct format. I use to download and burn, then my harddrive crashed. I had to re-install KL and now when I download, it's all MP3 format. Can I change that? How? HELP.

I don't really understand the question. As long as the files are some type of data then you should be able to burn them to a cdr. It doesn't really matter what they are, unless of course the file is corrupt which may cause problems.

If you are downloading mp3 files and want to play them on a normal cd player then they need converted to CD audio.

I use Nero to copy either data or convert to cda. Nero will do the conversion whilst burning the tracks. If you want the mp3 to copy as a data file then select data in the wizard. If you want it as an audio file, then select that in the wizard.

I don't think I'm supposed to post sigs here. However if you look at my post in the software in a can section you will find Nero.

Good Luck

**mandsinellijay** · 03-01-2003, 05:36 AM

Thanks, I will try again. What is happening is when I get my list ready to burn and I try to burn the message reads that its the wrong format. I know before my comp crashed, this never happened. I figured I may have not set something the way it had been before in my KL after I re-installed KL. Maybe it's my burner, but I really don't think so. It's only about 6M old.

**J'Pol** · 03-01-2003, 09:22 AM

Originally posted by mandsinellijay@1 March 2003 - 06:36
Thanks, I will try again. What is happening is when I get my list ready to burn and I try to burn the message reads that its the wrong format. I know before my comp crashed, this never happened. I figured I may have not set something the way it had been before in my KL after I re-installed KL. Maybe it's my burner, but I really don't think so. It's only about 6M old.

If you have donloaded the files and they work ( I assume you test them before you burn) then it is nothing to do with Kazaa. It has done it's part. What software are you using to do the actual burning.