Hi - a mate of mine has got a lot of MP3 music files. Is there a way to convert them back to "normal" files ie in whatever format a shop bought CD is in - so that I can play them on a standard CD player or my car stereo (the standard Skoda vRs one).

What will the sound quality be like - I guess something is lost in the original conversion to MP3, although they dont sound too bad in my opinion.

If use create a normal audio CD using roxio easy cd creator or nero, they should convert the files from MP3 to "normal" audio for you.

Ian

If use create a normal audio CD using roxio easy cd creator or nero' date=' they should convert the files from MP3 to "normal" audio for you.

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Or Musicmatch, which i have used (version 7.2,which is now quite old).

In a car, which is inherently noisy, you'll not noice any loss of quality.

BUT, I recommend you "level" the tracks, which ensures any quiet bits are increased. It also brings all tracks to a similar volume.

Musicmatch help files say

Sometimes you

I use nero... you just have to tell it to burn it as an audio cd and it should do the rest for you

I find you can normally fit about 20 or so MP3s onto a CD this way.... if it fits lots more, the format is wrong - or the tracks are very short!

Thanks everyone for the advice.

As you may have guessed, I'm new to this CD burning business, but I've got Nero on my PC, so I'll prob give that a try first.

Does Nero do this "volume levelling" thingy?

Thanks everyone for the advice.

As you may have guessed' date=' I'm new to this CD burning business, but I've got Nero on my PC, so I'll prob give that a try first.

Does Nero do this "volume levelling" thingy?[/quote']

It has - look for the 'Normalise all audio files' check box when you add the files in Nero Express.