Help - Can I burn an audio CD with more than 99 tracks ?

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tekpost

Hey there,

I need to burn an audio cd that contains approximately 250 tracks.
This CD cannot be a data CD. I have tried to download many shareware
apps, but all of them limit my audio CD to have 99 tracks.

If you know of a solution, or think you might know a way to buypass
this on a product, it would really help a lot.

Jay
 
How can you get 99 tracks on a standard CD-R disk ? With an
average of 3:15 per track,you're lucky to get 17 on a single disk.
The only way to do what you want is use a "lossy" format at a
lower bit-rate to get the average track size smaller. Of course this
will result in less fidelity.
 
Yes, but at what sample rate ? The case I stated was based on my
own .wma collection that is 128 KBits with each song averaging ~4.0
Megabytes each.
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tekpost said:
Hey there,

I need to burn an audio cd that contains approximately 250 tracks.
This CD cannot be a data CD. I have tried to download many shareware
apps, but all of them limit my audio CD to have 99 tracks.

If you know of a solution, or think you might know a way to buypass
this on a product, it would really help a lot.
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No, you cannot. There's room in the TOC for only 99 tracks. You can
write fewer tracks and use internal indices, but few players like them.

Mike
 
I think Mike may have the way forward by using tracks combined with internal
indices for some of the 'tracks' and I feel his view that many players don't
accept indices is overly pessimistic. I have checked all the several players
in my possession and all will respond to index programming. This is not to
say that some won't.

The only software I know that allows the addition of separate files as index
entries is Exact Audio Copy, which does so by using a non standard extension
to the CDRWIN cue format. (Cues produced by this method will be incompatible
with other cue using applications and editors.)

The only problem I can see here is that the TOC may be limited to 99 tracks
AND indices which would screw up a good plan. Still EAC is free to download
so is worth a try.

There is another snag here too. 250 tracks suggests some will be very short.
You may also run into the bottom limit of track length, which, off the top
of my head I seem to recall is 4 seconds.
 
Graham said:
There is another snag here too. 250 tracks suggests some will be very short.
You may also run into the bottom limit of track length, which, off the top
of my head I seem to recall is 4 seconds.
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The 'top of your head' is correct. <G>

My guess is that the OP is looking for a special-effects type of disc.
In that case, he will encounter the four-second limit and probably will
not be able to exploit internal indexing. However, I've no other
solution to offer and it's too early in the morning here to tire out my
guessing abilities.

Mike
 
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Graham Mayor (MS MVP), were you also born
with "Scam Artist" emblazoned on your face?
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Does the "P" in MVP stand for "PRICK"?
Does MS stand for "Mikey S-licker"?
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I need to burn an audio cd that contains approximately 250 tracks.
This CD cannot be a data CD. I have tried to download many shareware
apps, but all of them limit my audio CD to have 99 tracks.

If you know of a solution, or think you might know a way to buypass
this on a product, it would really help a lot.
Click to expand...

There's no way getting around the 99 track limit - it's the standard.

Search for "wav joiner" to join some wav's to reduce the number of
tracks. You can embed cue (or index) points in those joined wav's to
mark the joined tracks, and some burners handle the embedded cue points
in wav.
 
Another possible option, you can't burn an audio CD with more than 99
tracks, but an MP3 CD can contain hundreds of tracks (because it's a
data rather than an audio CD).
 
Barry said:
Another possible option, you can't burn an audio CD with more than 99
tracks, but an MP3 CD can contain hundreds of tracks (because it's a
data rather than an audio CD).
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1. You don't need to use MP3s; WAVs work as well on a data disc. Note
that there is no minimum-duration constraint either.

2. The OP specified that he needed CD-DA. Well, he did not use the term,
but he insisted that it not be a data disc.

Mike
 
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