strip a .wav file

[masarada]

Howdy all

I have 1 big .wav file [ 824 megs] ((ALBUM) OMD - The Very Best Of.wav )

I have an empty CD capacity 700 Megs.

I can sacrifice some songs from this 824 megs file, so that it cuts down to 700 approx. and then I can burn it on this 700 megs medium.

Question is:- how does one strip a .wav file , to make it thinner ?

Thx. for any help.

[Solarjetman]

why not convert it to mp3 then you would not need to cut anything out?

[pippas]

Or if you really do need to keep it as a 44.1000Hz PCM file for 'standard ' cd burning, just load it into an audio editor, and cut away!

This one's free:

http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

[MOVIEGEEK]

www.cdwave.com

[masarada]

Thanks to Solarjetman ,pippas and MOVIEGEEK.

Moving sequentially:-
My dedicated audio player only plays .wav formats, so mp3 was not preferred.

next I tried " http://audacity.sourceforge.net/ "...Great. I did not understand how it works, it's the 1st time I 'm seeing such a software, but I was able to cut the 824 megs to 550 megs like a tailor.
The cutting was not at all elegant, but I need time to go through the help to be more elegant[ cutting trackwise rather than an agricultural cut :P ]...but for the time the issue's solved

I have yet to try the one from MOVIEGEEK....
but thanks Guyz.....

[Sifaga]

how long is the wav in minutes

i thought if its under 80mins then it should fit on a 80min CD

isnt audio CD's different to video CD, its time not file size ?

[celtic_druid]

81mins 38secs. At least if it is CD compliant.
Should overburn ok.

[wmcbrine]

Yes, it's probably not necessary to strip it. 700 megs in "data" mode equals about 800 megs in "audio" mode, because less space is used for error-correcting code. 2048-byte data sectors become 2352-byte audio sectors.