Mp3 faq - stereo

What format do I have to put my songs in to play them on my stereo?

To actually play on an audio CD player the music has to be recorded in standard audio CD format, which is different to the format used for data CD ROM disks. The audio data is actually stored as uncompressed PCM data at 44.1 KHz sampling rate, 16 bit stereo samples. This is similar (although not exactly the same) to the format of uncompressed WAV files on your computer. To play songs on an audio player you will have to burn them to CDR disks using burner software that supports the creation of audio CDs (most do). For many burner programs you will first need to convert the MP3 files to WAV files, which can be done using Winamp (select the Nullsoft Disk Writer plugin as your output and then "play" the songs).

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