how much music will a 700MB CD-R hold?

Question

I'm burning A TON of music onto CD-R's and i'm trying to get an approximate count. On the cd it says "52x 700MB". How much music will one of these CDs hold? I know that you can't give an exact song count because songs are different lengths but what about how many minutes of music?

I'm burning from itunes and at the bottom where it gives you a summary it says "72 songs, 4:52:09 total time, 294.5MB".

now i'd assume that all the music would fit on one cd because the cd holds 700MB and there's only 294.5MB of music but that's obviously not the case so what's the difference?

someone please help me this is just one computer i'm burning from. on my other computer that i'm burning cds from i'm doing like 200 songs.

Answer 1

If you burn them as audio CD's playable on portable CD players, etc., then it holds an hour.
If you burn them as data CD's - like MP3's - then it holds 700 MB - but it will play on the computer and some DVD players like the one we have.
I have recently been putting 52MB MP3 radio shows and 75-110 MB MP3 described audio movie tracks on CD-R and CD-RW and easily get 690 MB of files on them as data.

Answer 2

usually 700MB CD goes for 18 songs (audio, not mp3), but if the length of the song is not too long, it can contains up to 22 song.

I have already tried it.

52 x 700MB
52x here refers to the burning speed