How many songs can I put on a CD?

Question

I have put my entire cd collection(it took days) on my computer, I want to 'burn' my favourites on to cd's but the disc will only take 12,the songs all are not long (average time 4 mins)the disc I am using says on it...philips CD-R80 700MB..
How can I get more songs on a cd can I buy a cd that takes more? or its gonna take a hell of a lot of disc..please help

Answer 1

with an average of 4 minutes per song you should be able to burn 19-20 songs onto the CD. hence the 80 = 80 minutes. try changing your burning software, there are plenty of those out there, my personal favorite for music CD's is Nero 7, but a lot of people also use Roxio.... if that doesn't work, I would check your burner out.

Answer 2

When songs are burnt to CD, they are put in .cda format and the file sizes are larger than .mp3, so you can't pack as many songs on an audio CD burnt to play in players as you can if you were to burn a data CD of just the mp3 files.

There's not set # of songs you can fit on a CD, because it depends on how long the songs are. It's usually 80 minutes of music that'll fit on a 700MB CD. You can create DVD audio discs that will hold much more, but won't play on most players due to the format of the disc.

There's no other way to fit more data on a CD-R though. It's 80 minutes of music (give or take a few minutes).

Answer 3

If you are playing the CD on a CD player that can read mp3s, or you just want to store the song for future usage on a computer, then burn the CD as a data CD and you can burn songs as mp3s instead of WMAs or otherwise which are meant to be played on CD players. This way you can store up to 120 plus songs per CD if each song takes up about 4 to 5 mb.

Also you can try to reduce the file size of mp3s on the CDs by burning at a lower bitrate, like 64 kps.

Answer 4

A couple of possibilities:

1. Record them as mp3s onto the CD. It will then only play on PCs or CD players that support mp3 format but you'll fit at least 5 times as much information on the disc.

2. If it's just for storage you could burn them to a DVD-R. Masses more room but obviously won't play in a CD player.

Answer 5

10 TO 12

Answer 6

The only was is to burn them in MP3 format if you have an MP3 player. The most I have ever gotten on a cd was 17 and that included some reaaaallllly short songs. If you burn MP3 you can fit around 150 songs on the cd.

Answer 7

by the looks of the code on your cds they only have the capacity fior 80 mins of music. even if you convert them to mp3 the disc will still only record 80 mins worth. try and buy cds that have more space eg. more minutes. or you will have to be very selective on what songs you put on disc

Answer 8

change the files from MP3 to data files using Roxio if u have it and then burn it. Only ur cmputer will play it but u can fit a bajillion more songs on it. or u can buy cds with more minutes on them

Answer 9

if you have a windows media center computer you can convert all your audio trax to MP3. no downloading. it comes with your computer (pre-installed)

it at least did with me. i have got an e-machines EM4036.

all you do is click start => all programs => windows digital media enchancements => windows audio converter.

also, a CD-R normally holds 700MB data or 80mins of audio.

it also depends on your bit rate. a higher bitrate uses more space. try setting windows media to burn at a lower rate.

Answer 10

Encode into, Wma(losless)format,decreases size without losing quality,mp3 will work great but it will decrease audio quality