[RESOLVED] burning Audio CDs

[exholt]

Does a regular 650 meg CD truly hold 74 minutes of music or is that slightly less due to table of contents and other formatting issues? I have about 72-73 minutes of music I would like to put onto one CD-R. Would that be possible? Also, does the brand name of the CD-R media make any difference as to the sound quality from the finished audio CDs? A friend of mine said that SONY CD-R disks were best for music CDs.

What do you all think?

[NooToo]

Well, I have got 73 mins on a 74 min disk. The better the media quality, the more you can get on the disk. Also it rather depends on your burning software.

Sony make good disks, but like all companies you can get the odd bad one, but it really doesn't cost too much to experiment, especially if you test before you burn.

Have fun

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[*spy guy*]

You should really use 700Mb/80min CDs. Since you may occasionally run across the 74 min threshhold when you make your own compilation CDs. Most CD players today do not have a problem reading these anyway. And it will allow you to cram that extra song on there.

I use Memorex 700/80 CDs and the audio quiality is just fine and @ $20.00 for 50 you can't beat it.

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[Sowulo]

Another factor: If you record with "Disk at Once" (at least with Easy CD Creator) it doesn't add an extra 2 seconds between tracks. On a typical audio compilation with 22 tracks that's 44 seconds saved. If you need to get 73 minutes on a disk set disk at once instead of track at once to make sure it can fit. Also if you rip the tracks to your hard drive first, you can try an editor and prune a few seconds from the front and back of each track before burning....

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[KingPawel]

When you write audio CD's it needs about a minute of space at the end of the tracks to write in the "lead in" - finalize the disk Finalizing the cd tells the cd player how many tracks there are, how long the cd is, and how long each track is. If you are are planning on using that cd in normal cd players, aka, not CD-ROM's then you need to do this, if you'll only use it in a computer, then you don't have to finalize it. One, last thing, about the cds, I prefer the 700MB/80min cds. I got 100 80 minute CD's for $33, with free shipping at shop4tech.com. But, before you buy them, make sure the program you are using supports it, I heard that some won't go past 74 minutes. I know NERO does, and software that come with Phillips writers does as well. I made a cd last night that was 78.35 minutes long. Works fine :-)

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[exholt]

Thanks for all the helpful comments. I am now playing with cooledit2k right now...and will plan to turn my mp3s to wavs...then burn them to 74 minute audio CDs for my friend.... http://forums.windrivers.com/cgi-bin/forum/smile.gif

[bfull1478]

I would recommend using Nero. It will tell you if you can copy the amount of space before it starts the burning process.