Burning .aif files on a windows pc.

Hi there, my friend just recently recorded her first album and had it mastered. The guy that mastered it was using a mac and my friend wants to make copies of it herself. The file format she was given is .aif but her computer won’t let her add it to her library (windows Media Player) and she cannot burn the tracks onto a CD as a "Playable Cd". She can open and listen to the tracks and make digital copies, (Flash drives/Data disc) but cannot burn to a playable cd. Could this be a compatibility error or copy protection issue? Has anybody encountered this issue? The Mac that was used for mastering these tracks can Burn the tracks to CD but that is not an option in this case, as it belongs to someone else. Can anyone help? The CD release party is in a couple days!!!

Hi, the .aif file format on a mac is similar to the .wav file format on windows. To play it on a wintel pc you have to install quicktime on it. To burn it as audio cd on a pc you can convert .aif to .wav on a mac (or pc?) using itunes.

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