"Burning" a CD to a USB stick

[blue_luke]

Hello all
This is a specific question but is also kind of generic.

I use Acoustica premium edition to burn CD's and give people a finished CD ready to listen in any CD player.
It is quite simple and works rather well, but now, more and more clients demands that I give them a finished product on a thumb drive.
And also, many CD players and preamps have a USB socket on the front panel
I am a bit ignorant as to how this is used, since I never had to use this feature on my player (TEAC CDP-650)
So the specific question: can I "burn" a CD project to a USB stick?
By this I mean that the stick could play a complete CD in the order and the pause between each pieces I have prepared in the CD project of Acoustica.

I understand that it is a very simple manner of copying the .wav files to the stick just using any file copy command, but how can I have a memory stick just 'act' as a CD in any computer?
If it's even possible?

Thank you, Luc

[Tj Shredder]

I give it names with preceding numbers to have an order. It shouldn‘t need more…

[EatMe]

Some tips:

- edit graphics with free painting program GIMP.
https://gimp.org
- concert .wav to .flac (free lossless audio codec) with Windows program FlicFlac
https://sector-seven.com/software/flicflac
- edit .flac media info: Artist, Title, Album, Year, Genre, Comment .. with a media player.
(Windows Media Player, VLC, WinAmp)
- save a .m3u or .pls playlist with the whole album next to the album with a media player.
Edit the playlist with Notepad or Textedit and certify the file references are .\relative\ and have no drive X:\ ..
- prior to giving away a USB stick, publish the music publicly (to certify your copyright).

[blue_luke]

I give it names with preceding numbers to have an order. It shouldn‘t need more…

I know it's a bit late, but tonight I recorded a choir and some member will buy the album only if it is on a USB stick. This is becoming "sticky" (padoum pishhhh! I can do worst! hi hi )
Many home sound system don't have CD player anymore.
My idea is to stick the stick in the USB port and play it just like any other CD, with the pieces in the order I have specified in the CD preparation list.
Now if I understand you properly, all I have to do is to name each piece:
001_title
002_title
003_title
and so forth...
Correct?

[blue_luke]

Some tips:

- edit graphics with free painting program GIMP.
https://gimp.org
- concert .wav to .flac (free lossless audio codec) with Windows program FlicFlac
https://sector-seven.com/software/flicflac
- edit .flac media info: Artist, Title, Album, Year, Genre, Comment .. with a media player.
(Windows Media Player, VLC, WinAmp)
- save a .m3u or .pls playlist with the whole album next to the album with a media player.
Edit the playlist with Notepad or Textedit and certify the file references are .\relative\ and have no drive X:\ ..
- prior to giving away a USB stick, publish the music publicly (to certify your copyright).

Hello and thank you for your help.
I think with the other fellow advice and yours I will be all set but I need some specifics...
What graphics to edit?

The production run is very small, maybe 35 CD's, or sticks per concert. This is sold only to the members of the choirs/ensembles etc. So usually I produce them one by one and label them with a Sharpie! Crude but the job gets done!

So if I take your post point by point:
- Graphic editing? Are you meaning the graphics for a jacket, or liner notes? etc... So if I don't have any I guess I can skip that step?

- Transfer the .WAV to FLAC, I am ok with this but NO MP3 or that sort of media for me. I know that FLAC works well though.

- Edit the metadate, I get it. Good Idea.

- "Edit the playlist with Notepad or Textedit and certify the file references are .\relative\ and have no drive X:\ .." I am not sure I follow here, I think I get the gist, but can you elaborate?

Thank you, Luc

[Tj Shredder]

Now if I understand you properly, all I have to do is to name each piece:
001_title
002_title
003_title
and so forth...
Correct?

Yes
I guess it will be less than 100 Tracks, so 01-Intro, 02-Halleluja etc. will do…

[mcbpete]

If you're doing this for quite a few of your CDs maybe look into a dedicated CD ripping app, like the fantastic (and free!) EAC -
https://www.exactaudiocopy.de/en/

Step by step guide to making FLACs from your CDs with automated naming, metadata etc. : https://captainrookie.com/how-to-setup- ... c-ripping/

[blue_luke]

Thank you all for these information. I think for just now I will use the number_in_the_title approach, it is quick and simple, but I like the idea of editing the metadata.
I will delve a bit more into this.
Thanks again, Luc

[EatMe]

Re:

Q: What graphics to edit?
A: Maybe a band or choir logo, the date, venue information, recording equipment, another view of all titles with times, photograph collage, discography, brief -about- history, website link? Remember to keep the information -timeless- and to be viewed any year.

Q: To keep them numbered 001file 002file 003file 004file?
A: The time and date of creating the new file(s) on the USB disk (first-last) may turn out to be the order they are played in, it's also good to keep them sorted per filename, this depends on the users equipment and sorting.
It's good to have the artist name and album name and the title in the filename, and in the ID3 Media Tag inside.
**use at own risk** a program I made, to rename and move files, freeware:
Renamer by EatMe - eatme.pro/about-renamer
- only for Western Character set filenames, not for Japanese (find ? in File List).
- as-is, freeware, does not send out any data (to me), use at own rename risk, including Undo.

Some more general hints:
- some media players may not be able to play .flac files, and therefore I would also add 320 kbit .mp3 versions rather than having users convert into lower quality untagged versions.
- look into a Mechanical License for public performances of covers by other artists
- also publish the work to certify your copyright, this can be done for free, with video/image on youtube.com or vimeo.com, or as sound on soundclick.com, or hearthis.at, or soundcloud.com (limited free and paid (yearly)) or per sales comission, such as on website bandcamp.com and paid (once or yearly) via distribution labels like CDBaby, Distrokid, Tunecore, many others.
- make backups of the high quality / project versions of your work on Google Drive, Microsoft OneDrive, Mega.NZ, or publish the work with free library indexing on archive.org and set the derivatives (by archive system) to none - I would disrecommend amazon backup space for losing data a lot in the past.