Putting more AUDIO tracks on a CD

[LOWTECH]

I have 25 music wav tracks to put on an audio CD in Nero. The bar at the bottom has gone into the red and exceeds the capacity of the CD..... I reduced the bite rate from 16 to 8 bit on all tracks, but have now realised that its the time per track that is the governing factor..

Is there any way to get the 25 tracks onto the WAV CD, or is my only choice to reduce the amount of tracks to 20 to fit on......

Thanks in advance

[Richard_G]

No. For a CD to be playable in a standard audio CD player, the format of the files must be correct. They have to be 44kHz, 16 bit wav. Anything else simply won't play.

You will have to reduce the number of tracks to no more than 74 or 80 minutes (depending on what CDs you are using) total playing time.

[LOWTECH]

Thankyou Richard........

[yoda313]

Why not try mp3 or wma or aac? Is this strictly for normal audio cd players?? A lot of cd players can play compressed formats these days. What is your intended destination?

Also - why not split it to more discs? CDR'S are incredibly cheap now so it shouldn't be a problem for cost.

[LOWTECH]

Yes I will have to split it onto 2 discs, as my car disc player only plays wav file audio discs.... thanks for the replies......

[jman98]

As you found out, you can't change the bit rate to squeeze more audio on a blank CD because the audio format for CD audio is fixed at 16 bits and cannot be changed. One option you haven't considered is to do a web search and look for 90 or 99 minute blank CD-Rs. They violate CD standards, but my experience is that most burners can correctly burn the 90 minute discs and almost all playback devices can play them correctly. The are close enough to CD standards to work. The 99 minute CD-Rs are trickier. Most burners can't burn them correctly. Many devices may not play them correctly. Note that to burn the 90 minute CD-Rs, you'll need to use something like Nero. You must set up Overburning in Nero (or a similar burning program) and set the maximum overburn size to 90 minutes. These discs look like normal 80 minute CDs to burning programs, you so have to tell your burning program to overburn up to 90 minutes to use all the space. A 90 minute CD-R would get you 10 more minutes of music. I have a few of these discs and I play them in my car with no problems and play on other devices too. If you want to experiment with the 99 minute discs, just pay attention to my warnings - few burners can burn them correctly and they may have playback issues. Just be aware of the issues before trying this solution to your problem.