How many songs and song names to CD?

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I'm new to saving songs to a CD. I have them on my hard drive. Used Windows
Media Player also have Sonic.

CD-R 80 minutes 700mb

Only holds about 12 songs and although the song names are there they do not
show up on the CD.

How do I save more to the CD or is this the norm?
How do I get the song names on the CD?

Thanks
LisaB
 
LisaB said:
I'm new to saving songs to a CD. I have them on my hard drive. Used
Windows
Media Player also have Sonic.

CD-R 80 minutes 700mb

Only holds about 12 songs and although the song names are there they do
not
show up on the CD.

How do I save more to the CD or is this the norm?
How do I get the song names on the CD?

Thanks
LisaB
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1) This is the norm for burning music files. To get more on to a CD, you
need to transform your wav files into mp3's. then you need to burn as a data
file and can go up to the limits of your media. A "normal" mp3 is around 4
megas, so divide the capacity of your media by 4 and you'll know how many
(approximately, rule of thumb etc) mp3's you can put on it. However, make
sure your player (car CD player, Hi Fi etc) can read data CD's/mp3's. Check
the specs. To transform a wav file into an mp3 file Google as there are many
frrewares available. Audacity is one such.

2) Song names, good luck, I've never managed to do it. However, by burning a
data CD with mp3's, then no problem, as long as the "tags" are OK? Download
this software (free) to add/check/change the tags :

http://www.id3-tagit.de

Cheers,
Jerry
 
Hi, Not an expert but this may help or it may not. without the fact that new
players can play compressed files mp3 wma the old CD players can only play
music tracks that are encoded at 44100 mhz sample rate and 16 bits. The
average song at that rate for 3 minutes would be about 30 megabytes and the
mp3 would be about 3 megabytes. And to get really crazy and if ya wanna mess
with it, you can figure it out like this: Song: no. of channels x no. of
bytes x sample rate x seconds in song / 1024 kilobytes / 1024 megabytes =
storage space needed to store it.

Note: for CD format no. of bytes is 2 cause bit resolution is 16 theres 8
bits in a byte so its 16 / 8 = 2 bytes

So... for a 3:23 song its 2 channels x 2 bytes x 44100 x 203 seconds / 1024
kilobytes / 1024 megabytes = 34.15 megabytes storage space.

Sorry for going on, I was trying to remember that formula when I read your
post so I thought I would share it. And most encoder players should have an
indicator like at bottom of window to tell ya how much space your files are
adding up to and if its over the limit.

Thanks for listening.

Greg
 
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