how many mp3 songs can a cd hold??

Question

when i burn a cd from my itunes library i can only get about 17 songs on one cd. Shouldnt the 640 megabyte disc hold closer to 200 songs??

Answer 1

The discrepancy you're talking about is because there's a difference between burning -audio- tracks onto a CD and burning -data- onto a CD.

When you burn audio tracks onto a CD, what happens is the burning software converts your MP3 files into audio (CDA) files, and then burns them onto the CD. The CD will only hold 74 minutes of these CDA tracks.

Or, you can choose to burn your MP3s as -data- onto the CD. When doing so, you will be able to get hundreds of songs onto the CD. However, a lot of (mostly older) audio players will not be able to read the data as music and play it. That's why you see nowadays music systems advertising that they can play MP3s. This means they can read the MP3 data file as music and play it, without having to have the MP3 converted to a CDA track.

I hope this helps!
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Answer 2

It would if you transferred them directly to the disc as MP3 files rather than letting the software convert them to standard CD audio. Some software packages don't specify MP3 CD mode specifically; in this case, you would need to select the mode that allows you to write data files to a CD, since MP3 files are just like any other type of computer data in terms of how it would be written to any form of storage media.

Also, the number of MP3s a CD can hold depends on the resolution the MP3 files were created at. 128k is more or less the standard; anything above that is superfluous. You can get away with 96k if you're short on space, such as when you're programming an iPod or an SD card for an MP3-capable Palm Pilot.

Answer 3

you need to burn the songs as "data" if you look at the disc it probably says something like 700 mb/ 70 minutes. when you burn the cd as an audio cd it burns it based on the amount of time. 17 times 4 minutes = 68 minutes. you need a good burining program like roxio or nero and use the feature to burn data not audio cd. just remember that only mp3 cd players can play the data disc while any cd player can play the audio disc that you have been creating thus far

Answer 4

When creating a CD with mp3 files, you have to create it as a data cd, not an audio cd. When you create an audio cd, the files are automatically converter to cda format, which are hugh compared to mp3, and will limit you to about 15-20 songs on a cd. The "audio cd" was created before mp3s existed and uses it own format (which is similar to wav).

Answer 5

Ah, they may be in the wrong format. Itunes may be creating an audio CD and not a MP3 CD. Check the settings.

Answer 6

If you are creating an audio CD (to listen to) that is about right. If you want to create a data CD (for storing mp3's), then you will be able to fit a whole lot more on there.

Answer 7

maybe wrong setting or wrong format.check the quality of each sound u burn in. the higher quality the biggest bytes it consume. have u check tt u want MP3 not CD? coz if u burn a CD without change the setting, u will get CD too

Answer 8

relies upon on the rip value of the mp3s you want to burn. relies upon additionally on the cd playeryou intend touse. ie, you get greater songs ripped at 64kbps on a cd than you do a stable high quality rip like one hundred sixty-192. i take advantage of lossless that's very almost the comparable because of the fact the cd, so at ultimate i'm getting approximately 2 cds onto one million burned cd. cds are mastered at 1440kbps and there is seventy 4 minutes of song on a familiar cd.

Answer 9

I put 276 mp3's on a 700mb cd
But these were all from the 60's and are only 2mins - 3 mins long (128 k rate )