Using Ashampoo Burning Studio 6 Free edition to burn some audio cd's. Today I discovered that when I burn a CD-R in the 'create audio cd to use in normal cd players' i.e. car stereo, when I drag and drop a flac file, the software converts the .flac to .cda in the process of burning. This is all well and good because both are losless formats I gather. However, when I play the .cda format songs in my car stereo , and home boombox, there seems to be significant volume loss. Quality is fine, but I can max up the volume and have it not be rattling the car. I mean it's loud, not soft by any means. Not that I would want to listen to music at the extreme volume it is capable of playing with store bought CD's, but I do find sometimes I would want it louder than this .cda disc is producing. Even with home made mp3 cd's the volume can get louder. I've noticed this burning different albums, so I don't think it unique to the original file source.
Also, I noticed something peculiar to me; that the finished disc with the .cda files when explored in Windows My Computer, only recognizes each individual song file as 44bytes / and size on disc as 2.00KB. Why is that?
I haven't tried converting the flac's to .wav files, which may solve the problem. But I have dozens and dozens of CD-R's to burn and in my own stubborness don't have the patience to convert the flac's to wav's even if I were to delete the wav's afterwards.
Thanks for the info.
Also, I noticed something peculiar to me; that the finished disc with the .cda files when explored in Windows My Computer, only recognizes each individual song file as 44bytes / and size on disc as 2.00KB. Why is that?
I haven't tried converting the flac's to .wav files, which may solve the problem. But I have dozens and dozens of CD-R's to burn and in my own stubborness don't have the patience to convert the flac's to wav's even if I were to delete the wav's afterwards.
Thanks for the info.