Re: burn question about .cda and mp3

In news:1133067779.894244.149780@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx,
ATHiker95 <mholmes@xxxxxxxxx> had this to say:

My reply is at the bottom of your sent message:

> I ripped a few music cd to mp3 - 320kbps and when I drug those couple
> of albums into my burn list, I assumed they would easily fit - I
> figured 3 or 4 albums would probably fit. Instead, only 1 album fit
> and a couple of extra songs, before it tossed up a "will not fit"
> message. I noticed that it converted all my songs to .cda - why did
> it do that? I assume that is the reason that they didn't fit. And I
> can't really tell how many bytes are full on the CD , because all it
> shows me in Windows Explorer is 0 bytes when I look at the disk.
>
> The disk play fine in my home CD player, but I really wanted to put
> more songs on the disk (and still have it play in my home CD player).
> What option am I missing?
>
> Thanks!
> Mark

Well it's a bit more complex than that. Basically .CDA isn't really a format
but a small file that tells the CD player what's on the disk in (I think)
RAW format. You're limited by the same number of minutes when you burn the
CD in that format. Your average CD will say, clearly, 80 minutes. If you
burn it as a data disk (which likely will not play in most CD players) then
you can fill up the whole 700 MB worth of disk but burning it in audio
format will, unfortunately, only allow you 80 minutes on a 700 MB CD. Once
in a while you come across a CD player that will handle .WAV files and you
can load up a whole slew of them. On the other hand you can buy CD (and
likely your house DVD player) players that will play MP3, WMA, or other
formats. However you'll still need to burn those disks in data format. When
you burn them (involves the conversion process) in audio format so that
they'll play in a "regular" CD player then you're limited to pretty much the
80 MB.

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