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conanbob

conanbob

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Ok guys I need your help.

How do I convert my music files to MP3 and then transfer them to CD giving me many more tracks on the one disc?

I appreciate your assistance.
 
unless you have an mp3 cd player, it won't be able to play them (any pc can play them obviously)
 
If I understand you right - you can't.

If a piece of music is 5 mins long it will always be 5 mins long no matter what you convert it to.
A blank CD will only hold 80 mins of music so you will always get a maximum of eg 16 x 5 min tracks.

HOWEVER, if you convert your CD's to MP3's and your player will play MP3's then you just burn the MP3's to a disk (not Audio).
 
dmpoole said:
If I understand you right - you can't.

If a piece of music is 5 mins long it will always be 5 mins long no matter what you convert it to.
A blank CD will only hold 80 mins of music so you will always get a maximum of eg 16 x 5 min tracks.

HOWEVER, if you convert your CD's to MP3's and your player will play MP3's then you just burn the MP3's to a disk (not Audio).
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Not exactly right... 700MB = 90 Minutes. The time the track plays for = the time it takes up on the disk. So a track that lasts for 13 minutes will take up 13 minutes of space.

If you had 90 tracks that were 1 minute each they would fit on the CD. 1 minute = 7.778MB
 
I can still remember when 640 meg/74 min disks cost me £10 a disk :eek:
I can remember when the 700 meg/80 min disks came out I wouldn't trust them to burn the data correctly and stayed away from them for about a year.
 
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Bought lots of these in the old days and I think they may have been £1 each.
 
dmpoole said:
If I understand you right - you can't.

If a piece of music is 5 mins long it will always be 5 mins long no matter what you convert it to.
A blank CD will only hold 80 mins of music so you will always get a maximum of eg 16 x 5 min tracks.

HOWEVER, if you convert your CD's to MP3's and your player will play MP3's then you just burn the MP3's to a disk (not Audio).
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If he converts to mono he should be able to fit double the amount of music on.

You can always buy 99min cd's.
 
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All he wants to do is rip his music CDs to MP3s, then put them back onto a CD as MP3 files. Say you're average MP3 is 5mb, then you could get about 140 tracks onto 1 CD.
 
dmpoole said:
A 5 minute piece of music is still 5 minutes no matter what its converted into.
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yup

they get 'converted' to basically RAW WAV files, where a 5mb mp3 would be roughly 50mb
 
dmpoole said:
A 5 minute piece of music is still 5 minutes no matter what its converted into.
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The cd is rated at 80mins for a 2 channel pcm file. If there is only 1 channel the pcm file is half the size meaning you can fit 160Mins of audio on a cd.
 
Energize said:
The cd is rated at 80mins for a 2 channel pcm file. If there is only 1 channel the pcm file is half the size meaning you can fit 160Mins of audio on a cd.
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Good maths but no.

Mono or stereo you're still only going to get whatever the length of the track is.

Proof -

The track at the top is a two channel PCM file
The two tracks below are single channel PCM files.
All tracks are 4 mins long and dragged into Nero they total 12 mins.

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Energize said:
The cd is rated at 80mins for a 2 channel pcm file. If there is only 1 channel the pcm file is half the size meaning you can fit 160Mins of audio on a cd.
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doesnt work like that. on the cd it is stored as stereo 44.1khz pcm, regardless of what you try to put on there. if you *coould* put something else on there it wouldnt play on a cd player.

you can put a mono 11khz pcm file on a cd if its written as a data cd and fit hours of crap on there but again, begin a data cd it wont play.
 
dmpoole said:
Good maths but no.

Mono or stereo you're still only going to get whatever the length of the track is.
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Not if it's 1 channel. Try it yourself, convert a 2 channel wav file to 1 channel, it's half the size, as long as you burn it to the cd without using nero to make an audio cd it won't convert it back to 2 channel allowing you 160mins of uncompressed audio. Plays back fine on my devices even though it isn't the redbook standard.
 
Energize said:
as long as you burn it to the cd without using nero to make an audio cd
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You're making a data cd then and that way you can fit hours upon hours of music on.

I think you've been misreading the posts.
 
Energize said:
Yep but it's still 44.1Khz 16-bit pcm and plays on cd players so it doesn't matter.
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Start again.

If you are making an AUDIO CD on a 700meg/80 min disk then no matter what you do with the tracks you will only get up to 80 mins of music on the AUDIO CD.

If you convert your music to 128 bit MP3's then you will get 10x the amount of tracks on but they will only play in a MP3 capable cd player.

If you're stupid enough you can convert those MP3's to mono and get twice as much on but they will only play in a MP3 capable cd player.

I'm pretty sure the OP is trying to get more music on an AUDIO CD which is not possible.
 
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