


On macOS which I have been using for more than 6 years now, I always have to look at some cheat sheet before I can burn an Audio CD. It might sound ridiculous but I had issues with playing MP3s on my first computer because it took too much RAM and I couldn’t comfortably use more applications like IDEs and MP3 player simultaneously. It was early 2000s when I played my first CDs, and all I could use back then was my first PC (Celeron 633, 64 MB of RAM, Riva TNT2) with a very slow CD drive which was surprisingly good in playing Audio CDs. I used to burn Audio CDs using MS Windows applications like Nero Burning ROM or Ashampoo Burning Studio where there is an explicit option of burning CD to be later used in stereo systems or car audios. It’s way shorter than when we try to save our MP3 files on 700 MB of data disk, but we can be sure that they will be playable on any CD player. The maximum length of music that can be burned this way is about 80 minutes. Some of the CD players can’t play MP3s (or other forms of audio files used on computers) but they accept only plain old tracks of music placed one by one on the surface of the disc.

Normally when we drag and drop MP3 files they are burned as they are, so in a form of compressed MP3 files.
