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to: August Abolins
from: Todd Sullivan
date: 2004-07-19 17:54:40
subject: recording VBR`s .mp3 to audio CD

In a message of 16 Jul 04 August Abolins wrote to Rick Christy:

 RC>> What limitations have you learned about? I'd be curious to hear.

 AA> Roxio doesn't support VBR (variable bit rate) mp3's.  According to
 AA> them, VBR is not "standard".    I discovered
Roxio's/ECDC's limitations
 AA> with VBR when I happend to be burning a disc with several VBR mp3's and
 AA> noticed that upon playback the recording seemed to get cut off
 AA> prematurely.   On one originally 20 minute recording, I only ended up
 AA> with 12 minutes of it.
 AA> Meanwhile, I learned that if I convert the VBR mp3's to WMA, and then
 AA> burn the WMA files onto disc, I get the full length recording.
 AA> I've also learned that NERO Burning supports VBR files quite nicely.

This matches what my roommate went through, but while trying to burn a
movie with Roxio.

Todd Sullivan

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