Hello,

I hope someone clever can help me with this.

I makes a compilation of audio files in Nero to create an audio CD.
But before I burn the cd I want to listent to the whole compilation to check how it all fits together, you get me?

So I want to turn the .nra file into a m3u file so I can play the compilation in Winamp.

I'm sure it should be possible (the .nra apears to contain the righht info if you look at it with a text editor) but I've searched "the entire interweb" and only found unanswered questions asking the same thing.

(be funny if this one goes the same way

thanks in advance

bingo

win xp
nero 5.5.8.0
winamp3

Nero is too limited to do such thing...
It can't even save a NRA file correctly (a bug when saving compilations with splitted tracks).

If you don't need RMS-normalization or crossfading, then Feurio! is THE program to make compilations.
It plays the compilation exactly like an audio player, including index marks and negative times (when index-0), and exactly like it will be burned. Its track editor shows the whole project too.

I haven't used Nero for burning audio in ages, but can't you just listen to the compilation, including fades, filters, etc within Nero?

I'm fairly certain that it gives you the option to play the compilation within Nero and jump from track to track etc to check your gaps, endings, etc.

I don't have it on this PC, so you'll have to check for yourself.

Like the previous poster, there are other programs I prefer to use for compiling and burning audio CDs, so if I'm wrong, sorry...

Den.

thanks

minix
I sometime use normalization but will prob have a look at feurio anyway.

den
Nero lets you preview each track individually, but it stops playing as soon as you perform any other action in the Nero program so its not very useful while you?re busy compiling


I'm told they have a Nero forum at CDfreaks.com - I'm gonna go there and ask...

Feurio only has normalization based on peaks and "manual normalization" (Adj. amplitude box).

I think it's impossible to make an exact m3u file from a NRA compilation.
AFAIK, a m3u only can define tracks one after another. A Nero compilation can have splits (one track divided in several), different limits (early end or late beginning), index marks, filters (fading), pauses between tracks, etc.

A m3u can't contain that info, AFAIK, and, anyway, Winamp decoder (if you are using MP3) will decode differently than Nero's decoder, making impossible to match lengths/pauses.

hmm. is it possible the other way round? nero accepting/converting winamp playlists for making audio/mp3 cds??

yeah, nero will accept an m3u playlist, just drag and drop an m3u playlist from your desktop or wherever into an open compilation in Nero.

I guess if i could find a better playlist editor than winamp would help me in future, but not with the bunch of .nra's I already have.

minix
yeah i understand thanks.

so I wouldnt be able to keep all the info but really for my compilations its about the order and how things follow on from on another as a whole so I'd be quite happy just to have the all the tracks in order.

maybe its just not meant to be

Then, maybe you can program something to transform NRAs to M3Us...

But, I see you are using Nero 5.5.8.0, so you're only interested in WAV and MP3 files. That's where Feurio shines. It's simply better than any other program... and forget about the stupid "Play"-"Stop" buttons in Nero and traducing NRA to M3U.
You will have a complete Wave Player (and it imports M3U files too).

thanks. programing something to turn .nra to m3u, yeah, I guess thats what I'm after but I dont have the skill and hoped someone might have done it already.

If feurio is the best way forward I'll dig into it.


i guess i was just pretty happy with winamp as a player and nero as a cd burner and wanted them to work the way my brain did.


change is god

it's kinda late, but since this is the first match on google, i should let you know i found it:
http://www.download.com/NRA-DMSA-to-M3U-Co...?tag=mncol;psum
this should work for you, or anyone trying to convert nra to m3u.
-df