MP 10 will only burn 22 MP3's on a CD

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beamone - 30 May 2007 20:23 GMT

When I burn a playlist of about 90 MP3's ,it says it can only record 22 of
them.
I tried Audio & Data options.
Audio gives me .CDA files on the CD & Data gives me the MP3 format.
Both give me playable CD's of 22 songs.
I know I can put a lot more on the CD but I must not have some option set
properly.
Any ideas ?

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Mike Poz [MSFT] - 30 May 2007 22:05 GMT

Beamone,

Audio CDs don't do a file count, they do a duration. If you have an 80
minute (700mb) cd, you're only going to get about 79 mins and some number of
seconds.

Data CDs do it by capacity, you need to see the disc space that these files
are taking up and then see how that compares to the available space on the
disc (minus some file system overhead).

Are you sure you're actually setting the CD type to Data for the MP3 and
WMA disc (which at 128kbps will average 150 songs for the average song
length)?

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> When I burn a playlist of about 90 MP3's ,it says it can only record 22 of
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beamone - 30 May 2007 23:14 GMT

So I should be burning my MP3 music files as DATA & I should get the maximum
music that the CD can hold based on sizes of files of coarse. I misunderstood
& I thought when I saw "Audio" that was what I should be burning.

Can you explain what the .CDA file means that show 1KB size, even though
each one is a audio file. It shows Track 1 etc instead of a name. When would
you want to use this thpe of burning. I am assuming you would not.

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Mike Poz [MSFT] - 31 May 2007 02:28 GMT

Hi Barry,

Okay the difference between Audio CD and Data CD.

Audio CDs are like the ones you buy at your local store that come from your
favorite artist. They are playbable in pretty much any CD and DVD player but
are limited to about 80 minutes of music and voice.

The .CDA file you see in Explorer is basically a pointer to where the actual
music lives on the disc, it's not the real music.

Data CDs can contain WMA, MP3, WAV, (and if you have iTunes, M4A, M4P) to
name just a few of the audio file types. There are more that are out there.

Data CDs are great for your car stereo when it supports MP3 and WMA
playback, portable disc players that support MP3 and WMA, DVD players that
support MP3 and WMA, etc. Understand, not all car stereos, portable disc and
DVD players will support those file formats, but as time goes by, more do.
The added advantage is that using these file types with the average file size
being about 4mb, you can put around ten hours of music on a data disc. Audio
CDs 1 hour and 20 minutes, Data CDs 10 hours.

What I would use for burning is based upon what my target use is.

If I'm giving someone a CD with less than 20 or so tracks and I want to make
an album cover for the case, a CD that can be played in pretty much any
device that accepts CD the world over, I'm going to make an audio CD. These
are also great for custom gift CDs.

If I want to have a lot of music on one disc and I know that it's going to
be used in a computer, or a stereo that supports playback of WMA and MP3 type
files, then I'm going to go the Data CD route.

Does this help?

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> So I should be burning my MP3 music files as DATA & I should get the maximum
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beamone - 31 May 2007 18:36 GMT

Thank You, that was a very good explanation.
It was what I had thought & this confirms it.
Data is what I wanted to do as I want more music on the CD for use in my RV
which can play MP3.

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