I'm curious how many song's can you guys fit onto a burned cd.

I can only fit max 25 mp3's. A sales rep from Best Buy told me he can fit 300 Mp3's on a cd. How?

I use Nero burning software and 700MB disks and it all depends how big the mp3 files are. THey ussual around 4000kb.

 

CD players that are MP3 compatible will play MP3 CDs..in nero it's an option, MP3 discs are different than the "audio CD" you will create, yes, you can fit a couple hundred on one disc, but you can only play it if your CD player says it plays MP3s.

the way it works is it reads it as a data disc (and the avg MP3 file size is about what, 5mb?) and plays it as audio, so rather than using the "80 minutes" on your CDR, you're using the "800MB" if that makes sense..(but still playing it as audio)

 

Tanc I think your taking the MP3's and formatting them to Wave files (wmv) Depending on the size of the songs you should be able to fit 25. Mp3's are so small you should be able fit hundreds on a formatted disc. Just make sure you have an Mp3 player. 25 Mp3's is really low.

 

uh i got a constant of 200 mp3s or more on my cds......

 

Im guessing what your problem is, is when youre making your CD, you are choosing to create a music CD, as opposed to a data CD or MP3 CD. Data will allow up to at least 10x more songs to be put on the CD. Thats whats coming to my mind. However if you don't have a headunit or CD player that can read it in MP3 format, its pointless.

 

THanks for the input fellas. I will look more into this.

My HU is an mp3 player this is why I was curious.

300 Songs on one cd is awsome.

 

Yeah, that is what is great about the Mp3's they are just smaller files that you can cram onto a CD. No need for swtiching them either that's what's great.

Hell get a 6-disc CD changer and you'll never have to change ever again. wink1.gif

 

The CD player in my car plays mp3's but I dont like using that function for some reason. I just leave 6 cds in the changer and let it play...

 

I have one it mine but I have yet to play with it. I think it would be tough to go through 300 songs though if you wanted to hear a certain song no? LOL

 

Don't use nero, but burn them as "data" files, your MP3 player will see the ".mp3" extension and play that.

If you do the math, for a 700MB CD / 80Min and you average say 5MB / song. ( I have some songs that are like friggin like 20 minutes, yeah dance / trance mixes that are like 12-20MB sometimes) But anyway.
700 / 5 is 140 SONGS! But like I say, I have BIG files on some of my songs. But on an "average" MP3 song, they say 3MB, so 700 / 3 = over 230 Songs.

I have a 12 disc MP3 Changer. I don't even know what's on what sometimes. wink1.gif