CD Burning question

[Vncent_0]

Hey everyone.. I have a question.. I dont burn CDs much.. but I was out with a friend the other day... they had like 120 or so MP3's on their burned disc and said it was a data CD? I looked on like store websites but what exactly is a data CD? The only thing I see past a normal CD for burning (the 700mb/60 minute ones I think) are the 4.somethin gig DVD CDs and the title says its for 4.somethin data or 120 min DVD.. but the description says for use with DVD burner... soo... are these 'data cd's ... or what kinda CD can hold that much... thanks everyone

[Ravsitar]

A CD is just a cd. DataCD refers to what's on the cd. A data cd contains files (documents, mp3s, programs, etc). An audioCD contains wav files that a regular cd player can read. A videoCD contains a specially compressed video file that is playable on DVD players. The size/minutes you see for a cd in the store is the advertised capacity (you can put 700MB of files on a disk or roughly 72 minutes of cd audio). I would guess that your friend wanted to put those mp3s onto a disk that he could play in his cd player. To do that you'll have the tell your burning software that you want to create an audio cd, then drag the mp3s you want to the disk. This will uncompress the mp3s to wav files making them readable by standard cd players. This will also make the files roughly 10 times bigger. You'll never get 120 Mp3's onto 1 audioCD though. You can only put 72(or so) minutes of music onto an audioCD that can be read by a regular cd player.

[stan03]

i think he is talking about the type of cds, i personally don't know what the difference in the media is, but it doesn't seem to make much of a difference since i never pay attention to those :p

[Vncent_0]

I'm not sure how but I saw 'em goin through and listened to them.. on a CD player (assumably with a CD In there =p ) he had about 100 or so MP3's.. I dont know how though.. ?

[Kendan]

His CD player can probably play MP3's. He is probably using CD-R media.

[electromagnetic]

Originally posted by Vncent_0
I'm not sure how but I saw 'em goin through and listened to them.. on a CD player (assumably with a CD In there =p ) he had about 100 or so MP3's.. I dont know how though.. ?

This is the same thing I do. My truck has an mp3 cd player. So it can take the data and play it back. An mp3 is on average like 5 Mb, so you do the math. I encode all my audio CD's at 192kbps which is a slightly bigger file. I can hold about 7-8 full albums on a CDR. Actually my home DVD player will read MP3's as well.

[electromagnetic]

You can also convert MP3's into the CDFS that normal audio players use, but you'll only fit 74 or 80 minutes worth of music.

[adrian nelson]

yer i used to have a mp3-cd player and you could fit 10 hours of music on one cd (at 128bitrate 1minute ~= 1mb so a 650m cd would hold 650 minutes or 10 and abit hours of mp3 music

mp3 is just a way of compressing music so it makes sence that you can fit more in the same space