I've been burning lots of songs onto blank CDs from WMP, but can only get around 19 or 20 on them. If i used a blank DVD, would i get more, or would this not work?? Thanks X
2006-09-25 03:44:53 · 10 answers · asked by . 7 in Computers & Internet ➔ Software
A blank CD will hold about 650Meg of data (I'm assuming that you are copying the music as an archive and not to play on something)
A DVD will hold about 4.7Gig (that is, about 7 times as much) information.
It would work to archive your music, but you would NOT be able to play it on any device I know of.
If you are copying to make a music CD, then you would still have more on a DVD, but again, the issue is what are you going to play it on?
2006-09-25 03:49:49 · answer #1 · answered by words_smith_4u 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
you wouldn't be able to burn songs in the same way on a DVD. DVD-A or DVD-Audio is a format for music on DVD media, but the intent here is for higher quality audio (think 5.1 or DTS with a much higher sampling and bit rate) and not as a solution for disk space limitations. the alternative to getting more music on a CD is to make a mp3 disk or a data disk with mp3s or WMAs. this type of disk would only be able to be read by CD players that have the capability of decoding these file types. a lot of dvd players and car players have this capability now, but before you run off and do this, make sure that your player is compatible. good luck!
2006-09-25 03:57:04 · answer #2 · answered by ? 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It would work but you need a DVD player for it and besides it does not depend on a space of CD but there is a limit to the songs you can download.
I suggest that if you have WinXP simply copy songs on a CD. You can get more that way or use nero and make the cd a data cd and then transfer music files. it always works
2006-09-25 03:56:53 · answer #3 · answered by Ali Hussain 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
some cd's/dvd's have a "miniute value" as well a "data value"
MINIUTE VALUE
is used for music discs (like the ones u buy from the shops) so if ur disc is 80 mins long u can ONLY fit 80 mins of music on it, HOWEVER u can save them to the disc in MP3 format, most cd players support MP3 format as standard now which will use the DATA value
Data value is commenly used to store games, photos etc, but can also be encoded to store Mp3 format music
a disc of 80 miniutes will store 800 megabytes of data
80 or 800 (do the maths now)
THE MATHS!
eg music disc of 80 mins has a data capaity of 800mb est
at 3 min/song compared to 1 mp3 taking 2-4mb/song at 64kbit (CD) quality
minitue value = 80/3 = 22.6 @ 3min/song (the / between 80 and 3 represents divided by)
data value= 800mb/4 = 200 @ 4mb/song
so that means that the space u fit one song into can fit 2-3 mp3s on the data burn mode
in otherwords there is absoloutly NO point in using dvd's to burn music just encode them into MP3 format (almsot all cd burners are capable fo this)
2006-09-27 03:08:37 · answer #4 · answered by captainivan118 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you are only getting 20 on a CD then you are writing it back as a Music CD, so no there is nothing else you can do.
Even if you bought the 900mb CD's and a drive that could write to them you wouldnt get much more on them.
It would make more sense to invest in a player for your car or whereever that can play mp3's direct from the CD. My sony car stereo can, and so do many more.
2006-09-25 03:52:54 · answer #5 · answered by 'Dr Greene' 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sorry, but you don't make sense. You are using the right equipment, are getting about 20 songs on it, what is the problem. If it is full, put another CD in. It will prompt you when you need another CD inserted.
2006-09-25 04:26:37 · answer #6 · answered by Nana 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, it depends on the format on how your burning them that determines howmuch space they take up. MP3 is a good way to format your music since you can change the variable on it and how much space you want it to take up. To be honest, you can use DVD's to backup your music, and it works swell. However, I wouldn't suggest trying to play the DVD's on a CD drive!
2006-09-25 03:52:24 · answer #7 · answered by Ben D 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sure you could store more data in a DVD. A typical single sided DVD has 4.7GB capacity, and a CD around 700MB. That's more than 6 times the capacity.
2006-09-25 03:50:52 · answer #8 · answered by ~_~ 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋
what is happening as you burn ,is it is uncompressing them
you can get 200 wmas or mp3s on a standard cd
burn them as wma or mp3
dvd if you did this it would only play on a dvd player
again if you burn as wma or mp3 you would get 1,400
2006-09-29 03:41:56 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It will work but you need DVD player to play them.
2006-09-25 03:48:56 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋