How to burn a Logic's audio to CD and listen it with home stereo?

If you KNOW you're going to burn your bounced song(s) to CD why on earth do you bounce them out as MP3's?

You're just bouncing to a very lossy format only for it to be converted (again) back up to 44.1k @ 16bit when you burn the CD. Trouble is, once you've bounced out as an MP3, burning to CD won't give you back the quality.

Just bounce them out as PCM 44.1k @ 16bit and your CD will sound a lot better.

Bit depth and sample rate are OK, but what seems wrong is that you bounce to WAV and MP3 only, when you should use the burn option.

If you directly bounce MP3 and WAV to CD like this, you get a data CD (not a (Redbook) audio CD) with audio files as data. Fine if you use it for another computer, but not fine for some music CD players. They need a Redbook CD.

https://help.apple.com/logicpro/mac/10.3/#/lgcp13e0a355https://help.apple.com/logicpro/mac/10.3/#/lgcp13e0a355

I've never used that either, but I can say you must close the session in order for it to work on another device after you write to it. You could for example do a multisession (leave it open) and it'll work on the device you used to write it and maybe some others, but to guarantee it works elsewhere you need to close the session meaning you can no longer write to it.

Wish I could give you more details about doing it with Logic, but that's all I can add.

Hope it helps.

See my other post on burning a CD from an iTunes playlist.

I bounce my songs out at the sample rate and bit depth they were recorded at and keep them (organised) on my computer.

I drag them all to iTunes but I don't let iTunes alter, manage, move or mess with them in any way.

I can then make playlists of whatever songs I want in whatever order and burn a CD of them. Doing it this way, if I want to make an mp3 (which I never do these days, I make an MP4 or AAC) I can do this from the full quality songs that are already in iTunes. My screen shot again of burning a CD from an iTunes playlist. The songs in the playlist are all 44.1k wavs.

I'm always making and deleting temporary playlists to do this for clients who prefer a CD and it leaves my full quality bounced wavs intact.

I hope this also helps the OP.

First of all , I make sure iTunes doesn't 'Manage' my music. ie, it doesn't move it, copy it or do anything else to it. It's in the Preferences somewhere.

I then have a Folder that contains my bounced songs. I make a folder within that folder for each band or artist and their songs go in their allocated folder.

Open iTunes. Drag the wavs onto iTunes.

The songs all appear in the iTunes library but iTunes hasn't moved any of them. They are still physically in that folder I made and manage myself.

You can then make as many or as few playlists as you want containing any or all of your songs or a combination. I treat playlists for this purpose as temporary things.

If someone wants an AAC (which they rarely do, they are usually way happier with me WeTransferring the full quality wav) I can make endless AAC's or MP3's from my wavs in iTunes at different qualities (it's always set to the higest quality, but one has the choice), all from the full quality wav I have bounced.

But this is just how I do it. There are many ways and this has always worked ok for me although I now only have a few clients who want CD's. I still organise my finished or work in progress files this way though as it makes it easier for me to keep track and quickly supply files if people ask,

Hi resopmoc

I dont do it like that myself, I highlight the Mp3 section, and check it also, then I just save it to my desk top.

I then insert a CD into my CD burner, the CD icon appears on the desk top and I drag the mp3 into the CD icon and burn,

Thats it really.

Not saying this is correct, but it works fine for me!

How are you bouncing your songs out of Logic?

Format? Sample rate, bit depth etc?

Hi octopi

thank you.

I have always done it like this, I thought it was the right way! I like to keep mp3s on the desk top, then if I ever want to burn a CD I can drag it to the CD or send to someone.

i have tried bouncing to the desktop as PCM then dragging to CD, they don't play on a CD player, as Eriksimon says, its just data.

However, like resopmac, now I am confused how to do it properly, I really don't understand Eriksimon's screenshot.

He has checked PCM and put a red line around the burn CD section without checking it, not sure what this means.

Which his the correct way?

Apologies for the hi jack of your post resopmac.*

Thank you Octopi

That makes things clearer, I will experiment with this, looking forward to it actually! Sounds a lot more organised than the way I have been doing it.

My apologies again for hi jacking this thread, though I am sure the OP will benefit from it!

Hi BenB,

I still burn CD's for the few clients who still ask for them. Don't really use them myself.

One guy I know, who is a lovely person and an infuriatingly brilliant guitarist, does everything through his 56 input desk to a Fostex 2424. He even prints his 2 tracks directly to his old-school CD burner for his clients!! Scary shizzle.

Whenever I do stuff for him, he wants a CD. I just built him a little Logic rig that will sync with his Fostex purely so he can get audio in and out of his Fostex, in pefect sample accurate sync, when his clients bring him wavs. I'm just devising a way for him to mirror his 2 track prints in Logic as his old standalone CD burner is getting unreliable now. It would scare me to death. All his mixes are on his analogue desk. No automation. No recall. I grew up with this but wouldn't want to go back to it.

I have 3 or 4 clients who work in a similar way and always want a CD if I do work for them.

I'm sorry, iI cannot tell you any more about burning CD's from Logic than it says in the manual - I have never used it, and I no longer have a CD burner myself, so I can't try anything out.

To burn a CD of songs from iTunes you make a playlist of the songs you want to burn and burn the CD from the playlist window, like this: