I have a box of recordable CD-Rs and on the label it states 80min / 700 MB. I have just tried to burn 40 tracks of music. The total file space was well within the 700 MB limit but I'm sure that the total length of the tracks was more than 80 min.
I used Winows Media player to do the burning. The burning seemed to go ok but after the CD had been ejected and reinserted it would not play anything and no tracks were listed in Windows Explorer.
When I made another attempt, Windows Media player warned that files past a certain limit would not fit. Should this warning always appear?
I assume that if the files exceed 80 min in length, they will not fit on the CD-R, even if the total file length does not exceed 700 MB but would apprciate confirmation of this!
2006-12-30 03:37:47 · 10 answers · asked by Charlie Babbage 5 in Consumer Electronics ➔ Music & Music Players
80 min and 700 MB are each limits for different recording modes.
When you are using Media Player or anything else to burn a disc as an audio CD, the limit is 80 minutes worth of audio. This is because of the recording format that is used by audio CD-Players... the same as if your were listening to uncompressed AVI files. In audio CD format, any files being written are essentially expanded to match the format (even if the original uncompressed data is no loner there). MP3 and AAC files are compressed audio.
When you are recording as a data CD, the limit is 700 MB. A data CD is not readable by an audio CD player... that is not the format that is used by the players. But, many audio CD players these days can also read MP3s, which means that they can read data CDs and can identify and play MP3s. It sounds like your audio CD player CANNOT read MP3s.
2006-12-30 03:48:10 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
So long as the data does not exceed 700Mb there should be no problem recording it. Many CD writing programmes use a little extra space to put track data and other information on so it could have possibly exceeded it in that way. Also, many cheaper CD-Rs do not write particularly well all of the time, so this may be the case as well.
2006-12-30 03:47:02 · answer #2 · answered by Dave C 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You mention that you are sure that you were under 80 min. But the software tells you exactly what the length of each song is, so you have to manually add them all up. I don't know what songs you are recording, but 40 of them will likely average over 2 minutes each.
Just to test to see if you are doing things right, cut that in half, try to record only 20 of your songs. If that works, then put the other 20 on a second disk, and be done with it. Disks are cheap, your time isn't.
2006-12-30 03:48:59 · answer #3 · answered by powhound 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
80 minutes of music, or 700 MB of information.
Depending on the length of the songs, maybe 20 would fit, so you could listen to them on a CD player.
If they were in MP3 format, you could get them on there, no problem.
Yes, the warning always appears. If you are attempting to burn over 80 minutes of music, anything extra will not burn.
2006-12-30 03:44:50 · answer #4 · answered by drewbear_99 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
as said 80 mins is recording time and 700mb size ,i use nero to burn cd's and it shows you the amount as a bar at bottom .
usually you cant get more than 22 songs on one cd in normal format unless you burn as mp3 (usually you have to choose data instead of audio ) but then you need a cd player that plays mp3 .most normal cd players wont play them or car audio systems .ive never used windows media player .
2006-12-30 03:50:23 · answer #5 · answered by dick19532003 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you burn a Audio CD (one that plays in all CD players) then 80min is the max that you will get on the CD
If you burn a DATA CD (one that will only play in devices that can read MP3's) then you can get 700MB
2006-12-30 03:50:35 · answer #6 · answered by Çlïgér4™ ♂ 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
some burning software allows you to go into overburn, however this is not always reccommended, but possible,you need then to set the software has over 80mins to fit on disc, either that or you can buy discs now that fit more than 80mins but your burning software would still have to be compatible to burn over 80mins.of data.you need to look at your software to set it over 80mins.
2006-12-30 03:55:07 · answer #7 · answered by batty 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Youre new to this world arent you ?
if youre using wmp 11 it will only let you put as many tracks up as the disc will take, it as an in built count down
2006-12-30 03:59:28 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I assume that the 80mins refers to, say recording from tapes etc onto the disk and the 700MB refers to recording/burning from PC!
2006-12-30 03:41:18 · answer #9 · answered by scatz 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
80 min is what it usally is
700mb is for sure
2006-12-30 03:43:44 · answer #10 · answered by QWERTY 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋