burning a music disk

[honvetops]

OK, I want to burn some songs and make a cd for my daughter.........( I don't do this much,  duh 

CD-R    52X /  700MB / 80 MIN

If a song  shows time  3:58          then     3.4  MB

should I figure the amount of songs I can fit/ burn on this cd with the  minutes ?

[Calum]

It depends what type of CD you want to burn.
A normal music CD is 700Mb/80 minutes.
So if you burn what is usually called (in most burning programs) an "Audio Disk", this will be 80 minutes.  Music files will be converted to cda format during the burn.
If you burn an MP3 or WMA CD, you can burn 700Mb of songs, usually a few hundred songs depending on quality.
Files will also be converted during the burn.
However, these CDs cannot be read by some players.

Hope this helps.

[honvetops]

OK,  Cal-  she has the Ipod I bought her for xmas...can she download these suckers on the ipod
What do you recommend I do?

[Carbon Dudeoxide]

a mp3 music file is much bigger (size) than a windows media audio (wma)
If you convert a 3 minute mp3 file to wma, you might decrease the size by 70%

[Carbon Dudeoxide]

Ah, you posted before me. I don't know but don't you have to convert the music file to an ipod format? because i know loads of programs for that purpose.

[honvetops]

Ipod <<  emphasis on  that

have no clue (I'm bozo remember)  thats why im asking,  I have all this stuff and have no clue to use?? lol


Hey look,  Rob P's  back !!!!

[Calum]

Not too sure, but I think you can then use iTunes to rip the music from this CD onto a PC, and then onto an iPod.
Carbon's point about WMA and MP3 files is valid, WMA is smaller but uses more battery power.
I recommend burning an MP3 disk in this case, a PC will be able to recognize it for sure and iTunes will no have to convert the music, resulting in a loss of quality, as iTunes can rip direct to MP3 but not WMA.
You can probably copy/paste from an MP3 CD too, which you can't with a standard audio CD.

Good to see Rob back here too.

[honvetops]

Thanks  Chief !   

[Calum]

You're welcome, post back if you have more issues or questions and we'll try and answer those too.