OVERBURN CD

[Backroader]

Help ! (but I will find it difficult to explain my query)

I bought some music MP3 format downloads, no problem there. Some of them are more than the usual 80 minute size of most cd's. I have bought some 100 min cd's so that I can overburn up to 99 minutes worth of music, because I do not want to split albums onto more than one disc.

I have succesfully managed to burn the albums that are less than 80 minutes but am having no joy with the over 80's. I am using Windows Media Player and from what I can tell that does not allow overburning. I downloaded Nero Buring Rom 10 but I cannot even manage to pull over the tracks into the burn area.

The music is in a compressed zip file. Seems from what I can make out from the gobbleddy gooch computer message I get that the format of how I downloaded the music is not acceptable to Nero.

Any ideas please (I can image I will be lost with any replies).

 

[cookie]

i think only some cd burners will allow overburning.

put them on a dvd?

nero will burn the mp3 files as the original data files, or convert them to WAV and burn as a standard audio file that will play in any cd player.

edit:

The music is in a compressed zip file. Seems from what I can make out from the gobbleddy gooch computer message I get that the format of how I downloaded the music is not acceptable to Nero.

you do need to unzip them first.

 

[BD]

if your files have been unzipped and are on media player and you didn1t allow windows to encrypt them,try syncing media player with nero`s list then drag them out of nero`s list to burn,nero usually has a bar on the screen as you drag your files over you can see how full the file is getting for the media you are burnning to.

 

[Backroader]

Thanks guys

I converted them to .wma and by a bit of a circuitive route managed to get them into the Nero burn area.

Then I discovered that I have been sent 80min/703mb cd's that are marked on the box as 100min/900mb. Now I have to wait for the correct ones to arrive. Doh !

 

[bowser]

what are you going to try and play these disks on? I ask because WMA is the windows media format, MP3 is probably the same file size but more universaly accepted on players, if you want to reduce file size then convert to AAC which is the IPOD/Apple format or OGG the vobis file format as they will both produce files much smaller than either WMA or MP3.

For your info, when you burn a disk yourself there is a laser in the burner that writes the information onto the disk, as you say there is software and burners that will allow overburn to try and squeeze extra onto a disk, however commercialy produced CD/DVDs are pressed and using that process it is possible to get a lot more infor onto a disk, it is done to make it difficult for somone to copy the disk and produce 'hookie' copies, Garmin do it with the mapsource DVDs puting more on a disk that you can easily copy onto a burn yourself DVD.
But if you are talking about music files then standard WAV files for a single track would be about 50-60 mb where as the same file as an MP3 would be 4-5 mb max, as a general rule you can normaly get about 10x as many tracks on a disk in MP3 format than you can if using audio CD format WAV files.

 

[Backroader]

Um, thanks but you are on another planet to me with regards to tech knowledge.


All I know is that by bumbling about it works on my cd player (lovely Primare) and on my car's player.

 

[TJ]

dual layer

Mapsource is in a dual layer dvd. You need a dual layer burner...not sure if you get the same in cds. Dual layer dvd gives u 8 gig.

what are you going to try and play these disks on? I ask because WMA is the windows media format, MP3 is probably the same file size but more universaly accepted on players, if you want to reduce file size then convert to AAC which is the IPOD/Apple format or OGG the vobis file format as they will both produce files much smaller than either WMA or MP3.

For your info, when you burn a disk yourself there is a laser in the burner that writes the information onto the disk, as you say there is software and burners that will allow overburn to try and squeeze extra onto a disk, however commercialy produced CD/DVDs are pressed and using that process it is possible to get a lot more infor onto a disk, it is done to make it difficult for somone to copy the disk and produce 'hookie' copies, Garmin do it with the mapsource DVDs puting more on a disk that you can easily copy onto a burn yourself DVD.
But if you are talking about music files then standard WAV files for a single track would be about 50-60 mb where as the same file as an MP3 would be 4-5 mb max, as a general rule you can normaly get about 10x as many tracks on a disk in MP3 format than you can if using audio CD format WAV files.

 

[B4ndit]

Why not just stick them on a hard drive?