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I want to burn some music to a CD, on the CD it shows '700Mb/80mins', but the music tracks come to well over 80 minutes but are only about 500Mb large, will this be OK? or have got to adjust things until both criteria are met.
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If this is to be used to play in a normal CD player (not one playing MP3 files) then the music will be encoded in the right format for CDs, i.e. you're not just copying MP3 files onto the disk.
If you do just want to copy your MP3's onto the disk to be played as MP3, then you will be creating a data disk and they will fit with ease.
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As rtj says; its the format.
Where did the files you want to put on the CD come from?
Also, whatever CD burning software you're using should tell you immediately, before it even tries to burn, whether there is sufficient space.
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Thanks, yes they are MP3s coming out of iTunes (can be varying bit rates), I did it once before but that was a long time ago, I usually just use my iPod but a few times I've forgotten it was still connected and have left it in the car overnight in the glove box.
Just wanted to make a simple/cheap compilation CD for occasional use.
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If you burn as a CD, they'll be transcoded to CD format during the process and probably will not fit. The native audio CD format has a heck of a lot of redundancy in it.
Might be worth checking your car's manual. Quite a few of the more modern units will happily play MP3s and such. If so, you can just copy the files to CD rather than burning them in CD format.
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Why not just try the alternatives - CDs are cheap enough.
8o)
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Burning to CD - rtj70
