I want to burn more than 80mins worth of music onto a CD. Can I burn it onto a DVD+R CD and then play it as...

Question

a regular CD in my CD player???

thanks

Answer 1

I know its gonna be a stretch for me to try to get the best answer on this one, but if you are interested in learning WHY you cannot burn songs in an "audio CD" format on a DVD-R, here you are:

When talking about CD's and DVD's the main difference is how much data each one can hold.
First off, any sort of round flat platter holds data after you burn it by a laser imprinting a special binary code of ridges and flat zones on the surface of the CD or DVD.
it looks something like this, when magnified:
The surface of the CD:
________        _    _____            ________
               \__/    \_/          \_____/
(Ignore those little dots on the top of the diagram.)
Theres going to be lots of those tracks running all around the CD.
If you know that computers run on a Binary system, which is a system based on 1's and 0's for all data, then its easier to understand that the slanted parts of the cd surface ( \ or / ) equal a 1 and the flat parts ( _ ) equal 0.

So now that we've got the basics covered, I can further explain that DVDs have much smaller "tracks" compared to CDs, this means the DVD will have those same sort of dips and flat areas when its burned, they are just going to be incredibly smaller. That's how a DVD is able to hold more data on one platter.
Since DVDs have such smaller tracks with such smaller beeps and blips on it a DVD player, in turn, has to have a more detailed fine reading "head", which is the device inside the DVD player that is able to read the surface of the DVD. Since this read head is of higher quality, and can more acutely read surfaces, it is able to read both DVD'S and CD's when inserted.

However, since CD's have such larger tracks to read, the head on your typical CD player, (the part on the inside that looks like a laser, and says don't look directly at it when in use) is bigger and doesn't read the platter as finely as a DVD player. So if you were to try and read a DVD platter with that CD player, it wouldn't be able to, because you'd have that huge head on the inside trying to read tiny detailed tracks, no matter what actual data was written on the DVD.

It's for this same reason that there are such difference in price between CD-RW Drives, and DVD-RW drives you can buy for your computer, because those heads inside the drive that is burning the information to the disks are so different.

Also, concerning the burning of a CD in "raw data" form like writing in .mp3 format, takes a special reader as well, for the same reasoning as the above. When you burn a .mp3 CD you are burning those .mp3 files as is onto a disk. For nearly anyone who has ever worked a computer, or downloaded music at least, knows that when you are working with music files, they are typically around 1 MB / minute of music, if burned at around CD quality, when you take those same songs and burn them as an "audio CD" that same 3 MB file you had before turns into an 8 or 9 MB file. This is because the file is stretched, if you will to play correctly on that cheap head on your CD player. Because if it was any smaller the head inside the player wouldn't be able to read it correctly.

That's why even though they'll be more expensive, I think its worth it to make sure if you buy an aftermarket head unit for your vehicle, its smart to make sure the player can play .Mp3 cds!

Hope a lot of people found this interesting, and informative, even if you weren't the asker who was needing it.

Answer 2

#2 is right. A cd can only hold 80 minutes, but that limits it to about 1/8 the size it could hold. Burn the raw mp3s to cd for up to 100s of songs

Answer 3

no if you burn "regular then you will only get the usual amount on music on that cd,regardless which you take , But if you burn in MP3'S then you can put up to 100 on a 80min CD and then play them on a MP3 player like your DVD player in the Livingroom or car mp3 player

Answer 4

nope
a dvd is not the same format as a cd, thats how it holds 4x more

you might be able to play a dvd full of music in a dvd player, just hook it up to your stereo with the rca plugs.

or put the songs on the CD in mp3 format
I made one with 178 good songs on it.
any cd player that says MP3 on it can play it, or any dvd player can play it.

Answer 5

No. Only thing else you can do differently is if your cd player supports MP3 playback, you can burn the songs as a data cd and burn the mp3 files to it.

Answer 6

That will only work if play it in a DVD Player. Cd players will not read a DVD player no matter how you format it and with what.

Answer 7

No.