How can I fit 5 hours of audio (talk)on a cd?

[VoodooEvil]

Hello all.

How can I fit 5 hours of audio on a cd to play in a conventional stock cd player in a f-250 ford pickup?

I have been streaming and recording Howard Stern talk radio from sirius sat. Radio onto my pc. It is saved as one file. Is there a way to get it to fit onto a regular cd ? Or is there any way to get them easily onto multiple cd's if necessary?

Thanks for any help or info......Joe

[jagabo]

You can't. Unless your CD player will play MP3 files.

[kmorger]

It's actually quite easy if you don't mind Howard sounding like a auctionering chipmonk.

Also, some burning software allows you to "overburn" beyond 74 minutes, I've even gotten like 85 minutes or so on some CDs. Trying to burn 300 minutes would probably land your drives laser someplace near New Jersey, assuming the software would even try...

Still, I think the chipmonk idea is better. It'd be kind of cool to listen to 5 hours of Howard but only have to spend 1 hour doing it...

[jimmalenko]

For all intents and purposes, 5 hours won't happen in any listenable state without MP3 playback functionality AFAIK.

Any decent audio editor (audacity, goldwave ... even CDEX maybe) should allow you to chop it up into parts.

[gadgetguy]

One thing you can do to double the storage capacity, since this is just speech, is put part of the show on the left channel and another part on the right channel. Then slide your balance control to one side or the other for playback.

[kschang]

A regular "red book" audio CD? No way.

Get a MP3 CD Player. Those are down to under $100 nowadays.

[mikiem]

"How can I fit 5 hours of audio on a cd to play in a conventional stock cd player in a f-250 ford pickup?
I have been streaming and recording Howard Stern talk radio from sirius sat. Radio onto my pc. It is saved as one file. Is there a way to get it to fit onto a regular cd ? Or is there any way to get them easily onto multiple cd's if necessary? "

Think your main problem is you have to split your one big file into CD sized chunks that you can then burn as audio CDs. One way would be to load your audio into an audio editor like Goldwave, Soundforge, Audacity etc., & find the end of a program (or any good point to interrupt your recording). At the same time, try to find this break close to normal Audio CD play length. Save that portion as CD spec. (44) wav file. Burn to audio CD. Repeat for rest of recording. Pop CD's in trucks stereo & enjoy.

I don't know if there might be any format issues -- how you recorded your 5 hours worth. If so, post any problems.

As already posted, audio CDs that your truck's stereo will play are limited to spec, so you'll need several discs -- how many depends on how you split the audio. Going to mp3 or wma etc. makes for smaller files, meaning less CD blanks, but also needs a player that understands them -- maybe yours does?

[greymalkin]

you could probably just loop howard stern requesting that someone take their clothes off for 80 minutes then have the cd repeat...it would be almost like having the full 5 hours.

[jtoolman2000]

You're paying for that crap!

[JerryB]

Hello all.

How can I fit 5 hours of audio on a cd to play in a conventional stock cd player in a f-250 ford pickup?

I have been streaming and recording Howard Stern talk radio from sirius sat. Radio onto my pc. It is saved as one file. Is there a way to get it to fit onto a regular cd ? Or is there any way to get them easily onto multiple cd's if necessary?

Thanks for any help or info......Joe

Hello,
in my opinion your not going to !!!!!!!!!!
rule of thumb.... it takes 10 megs of space for 1 minute of STERIO playing time.... on a music cd!!! and your not going to be able to get away from that rule...
You maybe able to get \ 120-140 minutes of playing time by only recording one channel !! ie... mono!!! ..... that can be done.... but 300 minutes on a standard music cd.....even in mono... no.....!
if you need 5 hours on a single disk then install a cd/mp3 combo player.... then you can put hundreds of hours of mp3/voice on a cd!!!

[Kurt S]

"You maybe able to get \ 120-140 minutes of playing time by only recording one channel !! ie... mono"

Nope, Red Book format audio CD's don't work that way. It needs a stereo track. You can't have a mono track and make the time longer. Even if you fed it a mono track, the burning software would convert it to stereo.

[gadgetguy]

I think he was referring to my suggestion of using two seperate time segments on opposite channels to double the effective play time. Even though you still wouldn't be able to fit the whole 5 hours on.