Best way to burn flac files to CD?

[Diapason]

Having downloaded that Sixteen disc (see thread in classical) I'm now wondering how to burn the files to CD so that I can play them on my oh-so-expensive CD player rather than on my oh-so-free-when-work-went-belly-up PC. I could of course use google, but that's already given me several squillion responses. So, what's the best way to put this album onto disc that doesn't cost me any money. Ta!!

[Rocker]

I found a solution in the file APEFLACCD.EXE which when extracted setup Magic APE FLAC CD Burner.

In use, I found the application slightly flakey as the first time I ran it, it stopped so I restarted it and it worked straight through without a hitch. When playing the CD, I found that track #21 was the first track on the CD and track #1 became #2 etc. I might have caused this renumbering of tracks when I selected the files to be burned to CD. Later I will have another go at burning the CD and note the track numbers.

[Diapason]

Thanks Rocker. I've seen Nero recommended a few times, but I'm reluctant to pay for anything! Thanks for the recommendation here.

[Fran]

CDburnerXP is another one I've used a good bit very sucessfully. Depending on how your tracks are named, it most likely will put them in alphabetical order, so for a 12 track album you get:

10
11
12
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9

Watch out for that and you're grand.

While we're on the subject XXrecode is very handy for changing music between formats. If you ahem, happen, across some single ape/flac files with a cue sheet and need to split it into individual tracks, medieval cue splitter is very good. In the video world, format factory is excellent too.



Fran

[Ciaran]

Media Monkey is free and I've used it successfully to burn FLAC to CD. Just be careful: the default is gapless (i.e. no gaps between tracks), which you won't want for The Sixteen, but you can easily get it to put in gaps. It burned the tracks in the order I had them.

Can EAC be used for this?

[Diapason]

Thank you gentlemen.