| thebiggfella |
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| Fri Dec 05 2003 11:35 AM |
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A storage question
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I'm sure there will be a really simple answer to this, but here goes anyway:
Why is it that, on average, I can copy more songs of the same format onto my 128Mb MP3 player than onto a 700Mb CD?
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| BipolarChucker |
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| Fri Dec 05 2003 12:09 PM |
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Re: A storage question
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You may find that your CD burning program is converting the MP3 files into CDDA format so that you can play the CD in any CD player that supports CD-R's.
To burn a simple CD with MP3's on it you should choose to burn a Data CD rather than an audio CD, this will avoid the "conversion" you're getting now.
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| thebiggfella |
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| Fri Dec 05 2003 12:21 PM |
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Re: A storage question
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I use WMP to burn my CD's and it does say 'converting' at some point as it gets ready to copy the files. Am I right in assuming though, that if it didn't convert them, the CD player on my HI-FI wouldn't be able to read the CD? These CDDA files must be a lot bigger than MP3 files obviously. Thanks.
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| bricat |
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| Fri Dec 05 2003 12:34 PM |
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Re: A storage question
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on a 700mb disc I can fit approx 160 mp3's, this can be played in the computer and my dvd also reads mp3's as does most of the new dvd's, when i'm making the cd I burn them as data files, if i burned them as audio files i would only be able to fit about 20 on the disc,hope this makes sense.
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| BipolarChucker |
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| Fri Dec 05 2003 12:35 PM |
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Re: A storage question
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If it does the "converting" bit, it means it's turning the files (MP3's) into an Audio CD, like any album you'd buy from a music shop. The very reason it's doing this is because you're using WMP9 to write the CD.
In order to put just the MP3's onto the CD you should right-click the file(s) you want on a CD and choose Send To>CD Drive (X:) [where X is the drive letter of your CD-Writer. You'll get a balloon saying "You have files waiting to be written to CD..." etc etc, clicking the ballon pops up a wizard and from there it's as simple as clicking "Next".
To summarise:
If you use WMP9 to record the CD it will record it in CD-Audio format allowing the disc to be played on any device capable of playing Audio CD's. (Discman, normal stereo etc)
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Edited by BipolarChucker on 05/12/2003 12:35 (server time).
| thebiggfella |
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| Fri Dec 05 2003 01:57 PM |
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Re: A storage question
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Lewis, Brian - Thanks for your help. That's made things clearer now. Given that my HI-FI CD player is ancient, it won't read MP3 files. I'll be hopefully getting a new one in the future when the wife lets me, so I'll make sure it can read MP3 files.
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