A Bit Thick

Energize · 28 May 2007 at 19:04

If his player can select the left or right channel at a time, he could take 1 channel from each song and then use those to create a single 2 channel track, when the cd has finished he can switch to the other channel and restart the cd, effectivley giving him around 160mins of mono music and being completley audio cd compliant. Wether cd players can select a single channel at once I don't know though.

james.miller · 28 May 2007 at 19:23

you should know, you just said it works fine!

Energize · 28 May 2007 at 19:55

james.miller said:
you should know, you just said it works fine!

That was with having each track as mono, doing it how I just just said then would have stereo tracks.

conanbob · 28 May 2007 at 20:10

OK

The reason I ask is that my dad has found some CD's left in his new house and each has over 100 tracks that play thier normal length - I didn't and still don't know how it was possible to create such a disk.

Is there some software available?

Energize · 28 May 2007 at 20:37

conanbob said:
OK

The reason I ask is that my dad has found some CD's left in his new house and each has over 100 tracks that play thier normal length - I didn't and still don't know how it was possible to create such a disk.

Is there some software available?

You just need to convert the audio files to mp3, wma, aac or ogg with something like dbpoweramp and you can fit hundreds of songs on a disk by burning it as a data cd. They won't play on a normal cd player though.

SexyGreyFox · 28 May 2007 at 22:59

Energize said:
If his player can select the left or right channel at a time, he could take 1 channel from each song and then use those to create a single 2 channel track, when the cd has finished he can switch to the other channel and restart the cd, effectivley giving him around 160mins of mono music and being completley audio cd compliant. Wether cd players can select a single channel at once I don't know though.

This gets better.

"andy" · 29 May 2007 at 15:07

wow this is a messy thread cant someone just give the OP a guide to what he wants to do

blatantly stole form elsewhere then edited

people buy Compact Discs (CD’s) and use software packages to convert the songs on that CD into MP3 files.

CD’s contain Compact Disc Audio files (CDA), these files are converted into wave sound files (WAV) - this is known as Ripping.

WAV files can be converted to MP3 files – this is known as encoding.

(One software package that deals with Ripping and Encoding is CDex (or could use windows media player ,winamp or mos tother popular media players) We have found this software to work well and it is easy to follow)

What is the point a creating MP3’s of songs I already have on CD?

You can play you entire music collection on your PC. Software MP3 players such as winamp will allow you to choose any number of tracks, to play in any order or in a random order.

If you have a CD Writer:

Many new CD players can play MP3 files, so you can carry 1 CD around instead of 10 and as it is a copy – so what if you scratch it or lose it!

You could make new compilations. Pick your favourite tracks and put them on 1 CD. No more skipping through the tracks you don’t like. (New standard CD’s or MP3 CD’s can be created, see Creating a new CD).

creating a data cd

just create a data CD instead of an audio CD when using your CD writer software. You will be able to play an MP3 CD on you PC or any new CD player that supports the MP3 format.

most cd writing software lets you make a data cd ,

i even think windows will do it for you if you just drag all the mp3s onto the cd in "my computer" then click write or something on the left

, itl give you 2 options , audio cd limited to so many minutes or data cd/dvd limited to size in MB wich is what you want

someone else here might recommend some better software , i usually use winamp/itunes for ripping and nero for writing