Freeing up space on a CD-R

[Perfect Agent52]

I was trying to burn a cd, but I had to take out two very good songs. The thing that really bugs me is that it is only like 3 seconds over the limit with the one song I want, the other song can stay out. I was wondering if there was a way, any way, to free up space on a CD-R to get like an extra minute or two out.

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Best way to do that is take out a not so good song and replace it... Or you can always buy a bigger CD... If you really have time, edit your songs and take out any unnecessary time at the beginning or the end that are dead seconds (no sound). I'm not sure about one or two minutes though...


EDIT: Are you trying to play these in a CD player or just transferring them over to another computer?

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[Perfect Agent52]

Well, I know I can jsut take out songs, but I wanted to keep them. I use Windows Media Player, and transferring them to an 80 minute CD-R.

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Make a second CD?  :-/ I don't know if saving them in a different format would help?  :-/

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[Perfect Agent52]

Thanks for the help. I just won't worry about the one song. Suggestions were great though. I am just gonna buy bigger cd's.

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That's the best solution  :-/  Good luck  

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[Rob Pomeroy]

If you try to burn more than 70 min onto ANY CD-R, you may find you have problems playing them on normal CD players.  This is because we are exceeding the original CD specification, and systems are not obliged to support this.

Compressing the audio is not an option, because normal CD players cannot uncompress.  You can certainly remove silence, or chop bits out if you want, but other than that, if you want more music on one disk, you have two options: use MP3/OGG Vorbis encoding and a CD player that can read such disks, or use DVD media and a player that can read DVD audio disks.

[Perfect Agent52]

Thanks for that great explanation. I just went out and bought bigger CD-R's. But now I fully understand. Thanks