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   Chris to Al Jostens   
   Re: trying to burn MP3 to CD   
   25 Mar 24 22:53:09   
   
   From: ithinkiam@gmail.com   
      
   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.   
      
   Would an analogue radio not tuned to a station work?   
      
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