Music CD for car stereo from YouTube videos

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I downloaded and converted a bunch of YouTube music videos to mp3 audio, with the idea of putting them on a CD for playing in my car stereo. I was thinking by converting to audio (FVD Suite), then there wouldn’t be a problem with the video. However, after creating audio CDs with Ashampoo Burning Studio and CDBurnerXP, the CD plays fine on computer but in the car there’s no sound as it plays. Obviously, I’ve missed something(s). Any suggestions for how to do this? Thanks,

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Are you using CD-R and not RW? Did you finalize the CD?

Joe

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Car stereo’s usually use .cda format and preferably CD +/- R newer models can play mp3’s.

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Use MediaMonkey to burn the MP3s to CD, it will convert the files for you – don’t expect much in the way of quality from a youtube source.

cheers, Paul

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Thanks for the idea. While the other apps finialized, I thought when Media Monkey put a .m3u file at top level the problem was solved. But still, it plays but no sound on the car player (fine on HD). This is, of course, a concocted disc; other .mp3’s burned from downloaded CDs do play on the car player. Any ideas why this might be happening?

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Hi highstream,

About a year ago, I did exactly the same thing that you are trying to do using converted YouTube videos. I used Ashampoo Burning Studio and the setting below in the screen cap. The resulting disc plays fine in my car player. If you have already tried this, please forgive me for wasting your time. BTW, Paul was quite correct about the resulting sound quality. Some of the songs sound fine, others are abysmal.

28370-Burn-CD

Good luck!
John

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Since I made the same choices in Ashampoo Burning Studio, as well as now in three other apps, there must be a bit more to it. Btw, I’m using CD-R’s.

Afterthought: One thing I notice about these attempts is on a regular CD/DVD player, such as attached to my TV, the tracks can be advanced using the >> button, but in my car the CD appears as one single track (w/o sound), i.e., advancing just returns to the beginning. Could the answer to the puzzle lie there?

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You need to choose the “Burn Audio CD (for any CD player)” option. This will produce a CD in the same format as a shop one.

cheers, Paul

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I miswrote in the last post. Both “Burn Audio CD (for any CD player)” in Media Monkey and “Create an Audio CD (that can be played on normal CD players)” in Ashampoo turn out CDs with .cda files – “Track01.cda,” etc. – which from what I understand are contentless, not usable. The only way I’ve found to get .mp3’s is to burn as data files, but as I say while those run on PC and standalone CD/DVD player correctly, in the car stereo they run as one file and w/o audio. So, what am I missing? Thanks,

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My mistake. I assumed those .cda’s wouldn’t play in the car because they didn’t on computer and my reading was they don’t contain musical information. Thanks for your help. Is “track” the standard title for CDs, or is there a way to include the actual title?

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I assumed those .cda’s wouldn’t play in the car because they didn’t on computer and my reading was they don’t contain musical information.

highstream,

I take it that your CD played in your car player, fantastic! I include the following because it may be useful to future readers of your thread. I was intrigued by your problem so did a little research on my own. First I converted two YouTube MP4 videos to MP3, and then burned them to a CD using Ashampoo. I verified that the resulting CD played in my car player. The CD showed two .cda files when in my computer disk player. I ripped the CD to my hard drive which resulted in two MP3 files, which I guess is what I expected, since that was the output setting. But at least I was then sure that the music files were indeed on the CD, not withstanding that it had played them on my car player, and I just couldn’t see them in Windows. I foundthis article quite enlightening. Be sure to read through the discussion as well as the article. Although some of it is irrelevant, some is also useful. Long story short, in Windows the .cda files are actually pointers to the music files on the CD, so you were correct that they are “contentless, not useable”. Apparently Mac and Linux OS do show the actual files. I wonder why Windows does it differently?

John

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Funny, I found that same article. When things went quiet here and I was still stuck, I posted the problem at another forum. You might find the responses informative: http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=89674&st=0&#entry762891. Someone there pointed out that while those .cda files will not play individually on a computer, they will if the CD is played as a whole; i.e., from a file manager, bring up the context menu for the drive and choose play.

Thanks for the follow up and help.

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Greetings there is a free suite that I use that is awesome, easy and high quality:
http://dvdvideosoft.com/free-dvd-video-software-download.htm

Best regards

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Thanks. I have a few good free and one paid ripper, some of which combine tasks that DVD VideoSoft seems to have as separate apps. What I do need is a good program for making video and/or audio clips from CD/DVDs or from YouTube-like downloads. Is there one among those apps at VideoSoft or elsewhere (free) that’s designed for that? WinX DVD Ripper has a sister program that does it, but the cost is up toward $30 or 40.

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What I do need is a good program for making video and/or audio clips from CD/DVDs or from YouTube-like downloads.

Might be able to help you with this. Please provide an example of what you’d like to accomplish. Are you wanting to take bits and pieces and join them together? Or maybe cut out parts that you don’t want, or rearrange them?

John

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Cut out what I don’t want. That means, e.g., taking 14:00 to 24:30, or cutting out the first 20 seconds because it is dead. One of the odd things I discovered in doing the first with some trial software is that the timing facility of every player (VLC, etc.) is different by up to 20 or 30 seconds compared to the original. Pretty disconcerting in trying to put the times in to capture a clip, when the result comes out so different. Thanks,

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Consider giving this one a try. It’s one of the few free video converters that I have found that includes an editor that allows file trimming. I used to use it a lot until I grabbed a couple of better pay ones during free giveaways. It should do what you want, but you’ll have to play with it a bit to learn how to use it. Unfortunately, after setting up your trim you have to “convert” the video to get the trimmed segment, which will cause a small amount of quality loss. I usually don’t notice it. For best results, convert back into the same format as the original video (i.e. MP4 to MP4, etc.). To do a trim, load a video file into the program and click the “Edit” button at the top. Your video will open in two windows so that you can view it. Then click the “Trim” button near the bottom left and you can choose your times for beginning and end. A timer will allow you to pick your spots. You can also cut several clips and then merge them into 1 file. Sometimes there are sound sync problems, but usually only when converting a trimmed clip into a different format. Again, not the best program for doing this, but the best FREE one that I have found. As a warning, this app phones home to check for updates when you open it, but it doesn’t seem to be up to anything sinister. I don’t much like that aspect, but it has never caused me any problems. If you decide to give it a go and get stuck, let me know and I’ll try to help you move along. This only works on videos; if you want to work on audio files also, try“Audacity”.

Good luck and have fun!
John

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Thanks, I’ll give Audacity a try. I have iWisoft video converter and also Skysoft’s media converter. Just looking quickly now, both do clips, with the latter seeming more elegant that way. I can create clips from a video file, including .flv’s, convert them to .mp4, then convert those to audio only with FVD Suite. Quality is fine. But I think all those assume a video file to start with.

What are the paid ones you’ve caught the free deals on? I’ve picked up a few in recent months on the video side, the best being WinXDVD Ripper. But none do clips.

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One of the free giveaways was the $49.00 iSkysoft iMedia Converter, which I would assume is the Skysoft’s media converter that you already have. It’s pretty good and I was quite pleased to obtain it at no cost. I’d recommend that you use that one to do your trimming/ editing, since you already have it and know how to use it. Also, I tried adding an MP3 file to it and was able to trim a piece out of it, so it may serve your purposes in that regard, too. The only downside there is that you will have to pick your cut points by ear; you won’t be able to “fine tune” your selection as accurately as you could in an audio file editor such as Audacity.

I can create clips from a video file, including .flv’s, convert them to .mp4, then convert those to audio only with FVD Suite.

Will FVD Suite allow you to convert .flv directly to audio? The extra step of converting to .mp4 first will cause some quality loss, whether you notice it or not. But if you’re OK with the results, that’s all that really matters.

John

P.S.
All- it’s not my intent to spam this board by naming specific products. There are certainly other fine products that will accomplish these actions just as well. Yet it seems prudent to recommend only those that one is familiar with.

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If iSkysoft iMedia Converter is pay, then I must have picked it up the same way. Thanks for your advice.

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To play the cd audio on your car stereo, you need to save compatible cd audio formats. I run into a program which allows me to burn audio from YouTube videos to CDs straightly. You have options to save audio CD files as mp3, wma, etc formats or choose to burn any part of audio clips played on YouTube.com. Maybe this way can help you well.

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Thanks.

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