Copying/Duplicating CDs

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Hi everyone,

I'd like to make backups of my music CDs. I'd like to rip them in AIFF, and then burn those files to a blank CD. Of course, anyone who has tried this will know it's impossible because the AIFFs will not fit on the standard 700mb CD.

I know Toast lets you do this by compressing the AIFFs... or so I think.

I wonder if there is any freeware that can help me do this, though, since Toast seems to have a lot of features that I don't need.

Let me know if you have any suggestions. Thanks!
 

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Hopefully someone will correct me. But I thought that .aiff is the format used in music CDs.
 
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Yeah, it is. AIFF is the original file, without any compression or quality loss.
 
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Are you sure I thought they were .wav files, thats the way they used to be anyways.
 
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Just import them in iTunes with the Apple Lossless Codec (no quality loss) and reburn them in iTunes
 
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fyrman22 said:
Are you sure I thought they were .wav files, thats the way they used to be anyways.

Nope they have always been AIFF
 
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trpnmonkey41 said:
Just import them in iTunes with the Apple Lossless Codec (no quality loss) and reburn them in iTunes
I thought of doing that, but it's kind of a hassle. I usually just import my stuff as AAC. If I wanted to import as Apple Lossless, I'd have to change that import option every time.

Unless... maybe I can come up with an Automator workflow that does it!
 
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fyrman22 said:
Are you sure I thought they were .wav files, thats the way they used to be anyways.

When iTunes burns a music CD, it's in AIFF, however, I'm pretty sure you're also correct. I'd swear I remember that you could burn .Wavs to a CD and have a CD player play them.
 
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That's definately true, I still have a few old CD players knocking around that will only play .wav's
 

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