By right MP3 songs should take up less space to burn in a CD but this is not the case, why?
I am able to download some 70 songs, each about 4 mins, into my phone memory or IPOD and taking up less than 300 MB. When I try to burn the same nos. of songs into a CD, it get filled up by less than 14 such songs. How to go about burning more songs in MP3 format into a CD?
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Use a compression sofware for MP3s. . .:)
CDs can be written in Audio format, or in Data format.
An audio format CD can be played on any audio player. Audio information on a CD is not compressed, so it takes up a fixed amount of space per minute of playback. A 70 minute CD can only hold 70 minutes of music.
A digital CD can hold any kind of data. An MP3 file is just one possible form of data. A normal CD player, though, doesn't understand digital CDs. It also doesn't know how to decompress the MP3 files back into audio.
Some new CD players are really two devices in one: an audio CD player, plus a computer that can read digital data from a CD, decompress it, and convert it to audio. If you CD player is the later type, you can write a data CD with the MP3 files.
To try this, you'll need to reconfigure your CD writing software to create a data CD, or you'll need to use a different CD writing application.
When burning a music CD, you look at not just the size of the tracks, but the length (time) of the tracks. You'll see that CDs have capacity specified in MB and in minutes. You need to look at the minutes, and burn your mp3's according to that.
You can make a data disc instead of a music disc to be able to store more on there, but it won't play in the same way as a music disc.
Most software converts MP3 to wav or midi files. If you copy the songs to CD as data you can get more on ther. Beware! You need a CD played that can play MP3 in order to use this CD!
it really is been fairly a lengthy time period on condition that i have performed this, yet i have self belief homestead windows Media participant itself will 'rip' the CD to mp3s. once you've a CD in and on the suitable of the window the position it says Rip on a button and also you click it, i have self belief it asks you what format you pick to tear the CD to. i don't have a song CD right here with me or i'd allow you to recognize step with the help of step. in the different case, purely Google and discover and use between the various free CD rippers to get your MP3s you pick. i desire that enables you. Hugh .
change the type of cd to data disk
You have to write the disc as a data disc not audio.