Is there a music DVD+/- disk out there?

[Mark Smith]

Is there a music DVD+/- disk out there that will play in a regular home or car CD Player (not only in a DVD Player)?
I have about 180 minutes of audio (compressed into mp3) that I'd like to be able to record onto say 1-3 disks (otherwise I'm looking at somewhere around 15-20 disks in .wav or more). I'm creating these for a friend who wants to be able to play them in his car CD Player.
I called TigerDirect about 2 weeks ago and they said this disk should be available soon. Has anybody heard the same or different?
Thanks.
Mark Smith

[Faustus]

No there is not. However Music CDS are by time, not by size. So 180 min of music wouldnt' take that many CDs, likely 3 tops cause I think most CDs are 80mins of music.
Just drag the files into nero after telling it to create an Audio CD, the bar at the bottom will tell you when its full.

Then they will play fine in your car.

[ghoster]

can the cd player play mp3s? if so you won't have a problem with it.

[jimmalenko]

...otherwise I'm looking at somewhere around 15-20 disks in .wav or more...

only if you burn them as data !
As audio they will be 180 minutes (two and a bit CDs) in WAV or MP3 because it is TIME that is important, not the filesize.
I agree with the MP3 suggestion - does the car CD player play MP3s ?
I wouldn't think that a CD player would recognise a DVD disc - the same way a CD-ROM can't.

[FulciLives]

Some car CD players can play MP3 audio. If so then you can get 180 minutes on a single CD using MP3

Otherwise stop bitching and burn them on 3 CD discs. I mean even a high quality CD-R is like what these days maybe $1.00 each?

Cheap Ass 8)

- John "FulciLives" Coleman

[gmatov]

Is everybody missing the first question here? You can't read a DVD in a CD player.

150 mp3s will fit on a CD. Most car CDs won't play mp3s.

Cheers,

George

[Mark Smith]

Thanks everybody for your feedback.
1) I made some more calls and it appears that what I'm looking for is a larger formated CD disk, not a DVD disk that would play in a CD Player. Now, all the people I called said "No" they have not heard of a larger CD-R coming out on the market.
2) My apologies to the board...I recalculated my audio time as 900 minutes which comes out to over 11 disks. I originally said 180 minutes. Big difference! I knew that my project would need many disks, but the numbers I gave didn't add up.
So, it appears that I am still limited to using a lot of disks. With the knowledge of DVDs holding large amounts of info, the audio limitation is a bit frustrating. No biggy really, just wanting to see if it could be done easier and cheaper.
Mark Smith

[HyperYagami]

DVD and CD are 2 different things, period.

[lordsmurf]

There exists DVD-Audio and MP3-on-DVD car players. I saw an ad for one once. They got all kinds fo things out there if you look. I want a laser-read record player and that special audio cassette player that did not use contemporary mechanics ("tape eating" prevention).

[steptoe]

If you really want to play MP3 disks in your car CD player and it won't play them, there are car CD players that will play MP3 on the market, in UK at least, and they are fairly reasonable as long as you don't have a CD multi-changer set-up

You could always buy a cheap MP3 personal CD player with anti-shock protection, then assuming you have extra audio in-leads on the back of your car CD player, just wire in the output of your personal MP3 CD player to these and listen that way

Far from ideal, but unless you can play an MP3 CD in your car's built-in player, then having loads of CD's rolling around in your car is the next option

As long as the total size for the MP3's you want doesn't go over 700MB, then that will fit on a single MP3 CD, but as said in the previous posts, must be burnt as data not audio otherwise it will be converted back to audio by the software

[steptoe]

Also, there is a 99-minute CD, but I doubt if that will play in your car CD player, that pushes the limit on CD's, and I believe you need a burner that can overburn to create them, and a player that can play outside the CD specifications

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