The Beatles Discology

[Dayvo]

A couple of months ago we hired a car when we were over in Tassie, and my son found a burned CD with " The Beatles Discology " written in texta on it .
We put it in the CD played but it came up with error and wouldn't play .My son took it home and it was forgotten about till last night when i was cleaning out some old CD's . I put it in the 'puter and it has 26 of the Beatles albums on it and all the words to their songs from 1963 to 1988 which is about 450 songs
I was wondering if there is a way to transfer these albums on to individual CD's . every time i try i get an error message saying "unknown format" i checked the format and it is a wave file . Any help would be great .

[TheForgotten]

450 songs? it's not a .wav file, no way. files would be too big. mp3 maybe. try playing it on the computer, if it asks you to locate a program to run it or check the net, click check the net and see what it comes up with

[Sabbath']

I think i've got that, it only ever works in the computer for me

[pow3rslave]

sure it isn't wmv? nero supports burning a 'wma disc' just like you can burn an mp3 disc, had no experience with this though. how are you trying to burn it?
just open nero express, select music then in the drop down "audio cd" should let you drag files into the window as mp3's or wma or anything, then it'll convert them when it burns them.

[alexp36]

I've got something pretty similar I got a few years ago - it has a flash menu/frontend thing that lets you choose which album, using little pictures of the album covers, or something like that, right?

Sorry, I can't remember what format the files are in - I had the same idea as you, but I don't think I ever got around to checking into it. Not sure where the disk is at the moment.

When you say you checked the format, how did you do it? Did you view the files in My Computer, or Windows Explorer, or something like that, and see that they had a .wav extension?
Or, did you use some software to check the file type?

Once you know for sure what the file type is, you're halfway there - then you only have to find some software which can convert them to cd audio format.

As pow3rslave said, Nero is pretty good, it can convert quite a few formats for you, but if Nero can't handle these ones, or whatever burning software you are using can't, then you can do a google for "<your format> convert wav", or something like that, and hopefully find info, and or free software, you need for converting them to a more well known format.
Once you've got them into .wav or whatever, then you can point your burning software at them, and you should be away.

There's a lot of esoteric file formats out there that people use at odd times, wish the buggers would stick to the main ones. But I've never found a file type that "can't" be converted yet.

Sorry if you already knew most/all of this

[Dayvo]

I've got something pretty similar I got a few years ago - it has a flash menu/frontend thing that lets you choose which album, using little pictures of the album covers, or something like that, right?

Sorry, I can't remember what format the files are in - I had the same idea as you, but I don't think I ever got around to checking into it. Not sure where the disk is at the moment.

When you say you checked the format, how did you do it? Did you view the files in My Computer, or Windows Explorer, or something like that, and see that they had a .wav extension?
Or, did you use some software to check the file type?

Once you know for sure what the file type is, you're halfway there - then you only have to find some software which can convert them to cd audio format.

As pow3rslave said, Nero is pretty good, it can convert quite a few formats for you, but if Nero can't handle these ones, or whatever burning software you are using can't, then you can do a google for "<your format> convert wav", or something like that, and hopefully find info, and or free software, you need for converting them to a more well known format.
Once you've got them into .wav or whatever, then you can point your burning software at them, and you should be away.

There's a lot of esoteric file formats out there that people use at odd times, wish the buggers would stick to the main ones. But I've never found a file type that "can't" be converted yet.

Sorry if you already knew most/all of this

That sounds like the same thing this CD is . Has pics if the albums and you just click on the one you want to play . Will have to play around with it for a while and see what i can do , Thanks for the info

[pow3rslave]

you can't browse the directory structure and just copy the files you need? if you can i'm fairly sure nero can burn wav to cd format.
if you can do this, then just burn them to a virtural disc, mount the iso, then use an mp3 ripper to rip them to mp3.