question on MP3

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Dave Chalk

I have music files saved to my HD in MP3 format. They seem to be on normal
size, 3,000 KB on average. How do I go about burning these to a CD at a
reduced size? I was lead to believe that I could get up to 1500 music files
on a CD in MP3 format.
 
Well a CD typically holds about 650 MB so you could get around 200+ songs on
one "DATA" cd. However, a true audio CD to be used in any audio player could
only hold about 60 minutes of audio because standard audio CDs store data in
a format called Red Book Audio, which makes a song about 45MB on average.
Some consumer car, DVD and portable players support MP3 playback from data
CDs though so you could just burn them as data files.

If you wanted to get more on a data cd you would have to downconvert them
from the 96-192 kbps they are not to something less or use something like
variable bit rates ... both approaches would greatly diminish the sound
quality of the MP3 audio files.

There's many MP3 batch converters available. A simple google on that should
get you started.
 
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