burning mp3 songs to a cd

[loa909]

is there a program which allows you to fit 20 mp3 songs on a cd as I use Ashampoo and it wont burn cd as it says its too many songs and to remove some. but I need the 20 songs on the cd

[Ai Haibara]

What's the total running time of all those MP3 tracks? If you're trying to create an audio CD, I believe you can't have more than 70 minutes on a normal 700MB CD blank, unless you either use a (non-standard?) larger CD, or change the pitch/speed up the audio, which you don't really want to do.

Or are you trying to create a data CD?

[loa909]

where do you find the total running time

[Ai Haibara]

The easiest way would probably be to add the play times of each of the MP3 files together.

I can't remember if Windows or any other OS would let you highlight a group of MP3s in Explorer/the file manager and give you the total time of those MP3s in a right-click menu properties window..

[loa909]

the total size of all 20 songs is 89.6mb on Ashampoo all 20 songs say duration 80.26

is there anyway or program which would let me cut the duration down to 70mins

[Ai Haibara]

Then, you're over the 70-minute limit for an audio CD. You might consider splitting the tracks in half (half on one disc, half on the other) and burning a second audio CD.

What kind of audio is it? A lecture? Music? Are there any sections of white/blank space in the audio that could be trimmed?

[loa909]

Then, you're over the 70-minute limit for an audio CD. You might consider splitting the tracks in half (half on one disc, half on the other) and burning a second audio CD.

What kind of audio is it? A lecture? Music? Are there any sections of white/blank space in the audio that could be trimmed?

its music, how do you mean sections of white/blank space in the audio that could be trimmed? how can i find that out

also how comes in shops they can fit 20 songs on 1 cd

[Ai Haibara]

Listen to it.

Since it's music, though, there's less of a chance that you'll have any long periods of silence (certainly not ten minutes' worth) that can be cut. You can open the MP3s in an audio editor like Audacity and see from the waveform graph where any long periods of silence are (and cut them), but it's best to only do that if you're fully aware what you're doing.

I think MP3DirectCut may be able to automatically detect and remove sections of silence in an MP3, but I can't test it at the moment (I'm not at one of my Windows systems).

Frankly, though, you're better off making more than one audio CD, than potentially messing up the audio files trying to edit silence out of them (especially when there probably isn't that much, to begin with).

[mike20021969]

also how comes in shops they can fit 20 songs on 1 cd

It depends on the total running time of the CD.

You can fit a maximum of 99 tracks on a CD depending on the total running time.

[Ai Haibara]

That, and some of them DO alter the audio (pitch/speed, etc.) to fit an audio CD, unfortunately.

One of my sound-effects CDs has 80 tracks.

[mike20021969]

Are there any sections of white/blank space in the audio that could be trimmed?

I doubt he'd recover the 10 minutes that he's over.

[Ai Haibara]

I doubt he'd recover the 10 minutes that he's over.

Yeah, and I said as much (especially since it's music). If it was a recording of a lecture, or someone speaking, there'd be a better chance, but even then there's unlikely to be ten minutes' worth of silence that could be cut.

[mike20021969]

I doubt he'd recover the 10 minutes that he's over.

Yeah, and I said as much

I just saw that you mentioned it post on #8

[loa909]

ok I will just have to burn 10 on 1 cd and 10 on another I will check Mp3DirectCut but doubt as you say shrink it to 70mins

[OldMan64]

It seems unusual for mp3 files of audio to take that much space for so few titles. Are you sure the songs are mp3? The bit rate would have to be very high for mp3 to approach the size of wav files. If the songs are extremely long, maybe but we are talking about being able to put over a hundred mp3 on a cd for normal mp3's.

[loa909]

It seems unusual for mp3 files of audio to take that much space for so few titles. Are you sure the songs are mp3? The bit rate would have to be very high for mp3 to approach the size of wav files. If the songs are extremely long, maybe but we are talking about being able to put over a hundred mp3 on a cd for normal mp3's.

I dont follow you as you say about a hundred mp3 songs on a cd. I am only trying to put 20 on a cd as a audio cd using Ashampoo burning program so there is no way of cutting the duration down, but like whats been said cant see me cutting 10 mins back in anyway.

[flashandpan007]

Hi,
700MB compact disk supports 80min+ !!
Use Imgburn (don't install the featured toolbar or whatever is offered during inalling it) -> create CUE file -> open your Mp3-files into Imgburn and it tells you how long they are (use 0sec pregap of session and it offers CD-text support of your id3v1.x and id3v2.x metadata of the mp3 files -> save the cue file and burn it. -> Finish. No need to use other crapware^^

hope this helps you

Klaus from bavaria

[mike20021969]

It seems unusual for mp3 files of audio to take that much space for so few titles.

That's because the songs are not burned to audio CD in mp3 format.
They have to be converted first from mp3 to CD audio format 16bit PCM/44.1kHz.

maybe but we are talking about being able to put over a hundred mp3 on a cd for normal mp3's.

He not burning an mp3 CD though. And not all players can play them.

[loa909]

Hi,
700MB compact disk supports 80min+ !!
Use Imgburn (don't install the featured toolbar or whatever is offered during inalling it) -> create CUE file -> open your Mp3-files into Imgburn and it tells you how long they are (use 0sec pregap of session and it offers CD-text support of your id3v1.x and id3v2.x metadata of the mp3 files -> save the cue file and burn it. -> Finish. No need to use other crapware^^

hope this helps you

Klaus from bavaria

Hi have installed Imgburn but how do you creat a cue file what do i click on

[mike20021969]

It's under Tools>Create CUE file....

More info here:
http://forum.imgburn.com/index.php?showtopic=5555

[loa909]

It's under Tools>Create CUE file....

More info here:
http://forum.imgburn.com/index.php?showtopic=5555

so when the cue file is done I just say burn image and will this be a audio cd which will play on most players etc. is this right what i have done here


now i have an error

[mike20021969]

Your running time is over by almost 30 seconds.

You can try to burn (click 'Yes') and see if the disc will play correctly.

If it wont, try a couple of things previously suggested:

Split the tracks over 2 CDs.
Edit out blank space from beginning and/or end of tracks (to recover 30 seconds worth of space).

[OldMan64]

Just to clear the misinformation. Gees, The thread title says "burning mp3 songs to a cd". From the postings it is now quite clear that the original poster used the wrong information as he is really wanting to burn audio or .wav files. My posting is correct "being able to put over a hundred mp3 on a cd for normal mp3's" I have converted 4 whole albums to mp3 and put on a cd with more room left over. The 70 mminute limit is for .wav files, not mp3. The 70 minute limit has little meaning with actual minutes. That is related to the original rating when audio was wav and there was no such thing as mp3 for music or anything else.

Imgburn is telling the poster the files are too big, so either convert the files to mp3 or split the the batch to fit on more than one cd.

[loa909]

Just to clear the misinformation. Gees, The thread title says "burning mp3 songs to a cd". From the postings it is now quite clear that the original poster used the wrong information as he is really wanting to burn audio or .wav files. My posting is correct "being able to put over a hundred mp3 on a cd for normal mp3's" I have converted 4 whole albums to mp3 and put on a cd with more room left over. The 70 mminute limit is for .wav files, not mp3. The 70 minute limit has little meaning with actual minutes. That is related to the original rating when audio was wav and there was no such thing as mp3 for music or anything else.

Imgburn is telling the poster the files are too big, so either convert the files to mp3 or split the the batch to fit on more than one cd.

i am a bit confused as these songs are audio and as .mp3 so how is my title wrong you say convert to mp3 how can I when they already are .mp3 how do you mean no such thing as mp3 for music.

MP3 is "Music file (MPEG Layer 3)"

[hech54]

is there a program which allows you to fit 20 mp3 songs on a cd as I use Ashampoo and it wont burn cd as it says its too many songs and to remove some. but I need the 20 songs on the cd

You can easily burn them AS DATA - MP3 FILES.....but you are not going to create a playable audio CD since audio CDs can ONLY have .wav files....not MP3 files.

[mike20021969]

From the postings it is now quite clear that the original poster used the wrong information as he is really wanting to burn audio or .wav files.

From post #1 it is quite clear he is trying to make an audio cd.

He wouldn't have got a "too many songs" error otherwise.

how is my title wrong

Your title is OK. OldMan64 didn't interpret your wording correctly (he in is the USA though).

[loa909]

is there a program which allows you to fit 20 mp3 songs on a cd as I use Ashampoo and it wont burn cd as it says its too many songs and to remove some. but I need the 20 songs on the cd

You can easily burn them AS DATA - MP3 FILES.....but you are not going to create a playable audio CD since audio CDs can ONLY have .wav files....not MP3 files.

so if i converted them all to wav then would they fit as I think now after all these replies its maybe best to just split them onto 2 cds 10 on each

[OldMan64]

OK, sorry I was a little too harsh. If the files are mp3's already, then the software is converting them back to .wav to make the "audio CD" as technically a true auido CD has to be .wav. I do not use the Ashampoo software, so forgive me. Now, if you wish to actually burn the files as mp3 for use in a player, which most modern CD players and car players will play mp3 as music, then tell the software that. Imgburn will not convert the files, so it has to be told what the expected outcome is to be.

[loa909]

OK, sorry I was a little too harsh. If the files are mp3's already, then the software is converting them back to .wav to make the "audio CD" as technically a true auido CD has to be .wav. I do not use the Ashampoo software, so forgive me. Now, if you wish to actually burn the files as mp3 for use in a player, which most modern CD players and car players will play mp3 as music, then tell the software that. Imgburn will not convert the files, so it has to be told what the expected outcome is to be.

how do I tell ImgBurn about converting files I am totally lost here

[hech54]

how do I tell ImgBurn about converting files I am totally lost here

All of your MP3 files add up to about 50-75 megabytes total(a guess)....when your burning software says they will not fit on a 700MB CD.....it is converting them back to their original .wav files.