How do I fit over 100 MP3 files (music) one 1 CD?

Question

In my friends car she can play Mp3 files (on a CD) and the file name shows up on a little screen. Some how she was able to put over 100 songs on one CD. She says that she converted the files to Mp3's, but arent the music files already Mp3's. She tells me that Mp3 files are very small. I burn CD's and at the most can only fit 17-18 songs. What is she doing that I am not doing?

Answer 1

You are only getting 15-20 songs per cd because you are burning them as music cd's. If you burn tham as data cd's you can fit close to or better than 200 songs depending on the quality of the song.

Answer 2

If you burn CD's with a program like media player, it records the songs as CD audio files, not mp3's. A regular CD fits 80 minutes of music as CD audio files .You cannot have more than 80 minutes if you are burning the CD with media player or any other program that burns songs that way. The advantage of burning an MP3 CD is that it doesn't matter how many minutes the songs add up to be ; you only have to watch the file sizes. The limit is 700 mb on a regular CD.

All you have to do is drag and drop the files into the CD, just like making a data CD (CD with files other than music). Burn it this way and i think it should work because it always works for me. If it doesn't, ask your friend to show you how she does hers.

Answer 3

You can burn a CD as a music CD or mp3 CD. You can fit something like 10 hours of music onto an mp3 cd. I'm not sure how, though. But, you need a CD player that can play mp3 format CD's.

Sorry I can't help much.

Answer 4

I was going to be funny and tell you to add 'em very slowly. But being the wizard I am I will try to educate a kid so that it gets a little discology. First of all the size of a CD was dictated by the ability for it to play a classical piece of music for the Japanese Sony chairmen of the board and it just happened from beginning to end took just a little under 700MB's.

Now to answer your question CD music that is in digital format on a regular CD is unclipped. Meaning that you are hearing the way it was originally produced, full Fidelity. MP3's are severely clipped, meaning that some information is left out/off and compressed. You would have to be an audiophile to notice the difference. Some people would tell you, that it is like hearing the difference between noise and music.

Answer 5

She may have a CD/MP3 player that will play MP3 files. Many of the newer CD players will play MP3s - but the majority of CD players still just play CDs. MP3s are DATA FILES although they play music. It is playing them as a FILE - not a song. So you are burning them the proper way - to be played in a normal stereo.

Answer 6

there are two option for burning cd. the one with 17-18 songs in your cd is just converting your mp3 files into audio files right to your CD that makes it to bigger files thats why you can only have 18 songs. the MP3 files you burn will no longer MP3 format but an audio files instead. burning it to MP3 files only will let you burn it up to over 100 songs and with MP3 formats. are you using NERO? try to look at the different option how to burn your audio files. choose MP3 burning process

Answer 7

Rather than burning an "Audio CD" with your CD Burning program, burn a "Data CD" then just put the MP3 files on there. It should let you put somewhere between 100-200 on the disc (depending on their size).

Just remember that only certain players will play MP3 CD's.

Answer 8

you cannot burn a mp3 file in a windows media player because it just actully burn an audio file and not a mp3 file and if you want to burn an mp3 that has a hundred song you can use NERO BURNING SOFTWARE.. The Nero Burning Software will convert the audio file into an MP3 file.. and also you cannot burn 100 mp3 songs in one cd but you can burn more than 100 mp3s.. hope i help you with your delimna..

Answer 9

1. make sure the songs are in MP3 format.

2. burn them onto the CD as data. (don't use
music options.)

3. close the CD out to read in all players.

4. Your CD player has to be one that can read
MP3's.

5. If you have a 4.7 burner, you can put a good
1500 songs on one disc. If you want the player
to read and play the songs properly, you need to
burn them on at the old fashion 2.4 speed.

Answer 10

You need to convert the songs into MP3s dude. The files you have are wmas or wav files. You can put over 100 mp3 on a CD no prob.

Answer 11

You need to save your music as a data disc instead of an audio disc. The formats are different and that is why you are only able to fit like 17-18 songs on it. If you save it as a data disc, you will be able to fit A LOT of songs on your disc, but keep in mind you won't be able to play you're songs in your cd player or car, unless it can read an mp3 disc.