Streaming

[stan319]

Hi guys,
  I'm not real good with this computer stuff.  If I would pay to stream a song from Amazon, could I put that song on a CD and how would that work.
  If you are going to answer this. Answer like you are talking to a dummy...........................you are.

[DaveLembke]

I suggest buying the song as a MP3 vs trying to capture a stream to record into a digital audio format. Amazon has where you can purchase music as MP3's. You can then use software of choice to then copy MP3's to a CD for playing it on a Car Stereo CD player in a CD Audio format.

https://www.amazon.com/MP3-Music-Download/b?ie=UTF8&node=163856011

[stan319]

Can I do that to a laptop that's real old?
I'm 68 and not really up on what a computer can or cannot do or how to do some of it.
I can rip CD's and burn the tracks on a CD-R, but the rest is kinda hit or miss.
What ( in very simple terms) is an MP3?

[2x3i5x]

mp3 is short for MPEG (Motion Picture Experts Group) Layer-3 sound file. Basically, a digital format that is an alternative to the CD audio.

Also, just wondering what software are you using to rip/burn CD tracks and what laptop do you have?

[Geek-9pm]

MP3 is  compressed format that takes less space that the standard CD audio track.
Programs the convert MP3 to another format and burn to an audio CD are not new. I think they go back almost twenty years.

Part of the music industry hates MP3. They resist the idea of having several hours of music on a single CD. That iswhy , IMO, it is hard to buy a CD boom box that can read MP3 from a CD. Once I did find a low-cost CD portable that could read either standard CD audio or MP3 on a CD. Wish I still had it. Hasted to find.

EDIT: Required reading for us ole men. (I am 80.)
https://www.thoughtco.com/history-of-mp4-1992132

The German company Fraunhofer-Gesellshaft developed MP3 technology and now licenses the patent rights to the audio compression technology—the United States Patent 5,579,430 for a "digital encoding process". The inventors named on the MP3 patent are Bernhard Grill, Karl-Heinz Brandenburg, Thomas Sporer, Bernd Kurten, and Ernst Eberlein.

[stan319]

I have a Dell Latitude D630 and I know it's a dinosaur, but it does everything I want it to. It has a "media maker" program (?) on it and I use that to rip and burn.