burning cd's

[workout]

I am burning cd’s from mp3 files. Using windows media player I get pretty good sound quality. I think because windows media player converts the files to WMA before it burns them. I have musicmatch and I tried burning a cd using musicmatch because the cd labeling feature. When playing the cd in my truck cd player I found out that the name of the artist and song title came up on the screen but the sound quality was poor. I down loaded a mp3 to wma converter an converted the mp3 files to wma and then burnt to cd using musicmatch and got what I wanted which is ok sound quality, able to print a cd label and song ID.
I would like to know if there is a cd burning program out there that would do it all (convert, ID songs, and print labels).

 

[heyman421]

Windows media player doesn't convert to wma before it burns, that would DECREASE quality.

You're correct that WMA is better quality than MP3, but any time you convert audio from one compressed format to another (regardless of better to worse, or worse to better) you're going to take the bad attributes of both formats, and compound them, and have an even worse sounding file than you began with.

And i've never heard of one program having better quality than another by simply burning the files to a disc. MP3 quality (any format for that matter) is all gained/lost during encoding, not decoding. You could use 300 different mp3 codecs to decode the same file, and they're still going to decode it to the same decoded wave, and an audio cd is nothing but uncompressed pulse-code modulated audio.

The quality difference is most likely in your head, or you're doing something tragically wrong.