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   red floyd to Al Jostens   
   Re: trying to burn MP3 to CD   
   24 Mar 24 14:57:33   
   
   From: no.spam.here@its.invalid   
      
   On 3/24/2024 2:27 PM, Al Jostens wrote:   
   > Ok, I had not burned a CD in over a decade so forgot about the   
   > "standards."  I was trying to burn the MP3 to CD using audio standards,   
   > which was not going to work since it was hours long.  After I began   
   > using the "data" option, no longer any oversize issues except I had to   
   > go though about 5 CDs before there was a correct burn.  I had some cheap   
   > Verbatim ones here, but none of those burned correctly.  It took an old   
   > Maxwell with max of 4x speed to get successful results.  It's not that   
   > my burner couldn't handle the faster speeds, but I think a lot of these   
   > old CDs in storage for many years were bad.   
   >   
   > The purpose was to create a 9 hour "white noise" CD for my wife, who   
   > uses the noise when I am away to help her sleep.  We had a white noise   
   > generator, but it became defunct so I came up with the idea of a CD to   
   > be used in the room's portable stereo.   
   >   
   >   
      
   I'm assuming your stereo can play MP3.  Otherwise, since it's white   
   noise, you could edit that MP3 down to about an hour long, burn it as   
   a standard redbook CD, and play it on repeat.   
      
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