My uncle was having problems playing his audio CD in his DVD player and I discovered that his audio CD are in mp3 format which means that his DVD player does not support mp3 format. I've decided to download a 15-day trial version of Nero 8 so I can convert mp3 to CD audio format to make it playable in his DVD player. However, when I went to Nero StartSmart, add all of the individual tracks and clicked on "Burn" button, I get an error stating that "The size of the selected files exceeds the disc capacity. Do you want to deselect data or insert another disc?" I find this baffling because the total file size on my uncle's CD is 635 MB and the blank CD that I want to burn onto contain 700 MB of freespace. I think there is a bug in Nero 8, but I'm not sure. Did anyone encountered similar issues that I had?
Originally posted by aldan: just how many tracks did you select? you are not going to get all the tracks from an mp3 to fit on a cd.
32 tracks and why did you say that I'm not going to fit all of the mp3 tracks on a blank CD? If my uncle's CD can hold 32 mp3 tracks, then the blank CD should be able to hold them though not in mp3 format, but in CD format.
i may be wrong but with mp3 format you can get more on a cd.if you could get every track from an mp3 to a cd why would you need mp3s?make a compilation and add the tracks one by one until you fill the cd.then insert another cd and add the rest.in my experience i can get 13-17 tracks on a cd in cd format,depending on the length of the song.
MP3 is a very compressed form of data. When we convert mp3 to wav (cd ) the reversal is about 20x (more or less) larger, so mp33 with 635 Mb of data in wav is about 12.7 Gb. This is why nero 8 says your 700Mb disc is not enough.
Originally posted by iluvendo:MP3 is a very compressed form of data. When we convert mp3 to wav (cd ) the reversal is about 20x (more or less) larger, so mp33 with 635 Mb of data in wav is about 12.7 Gb. This is why nero 8 says your 700Mb disc is not enough.
Thanks for the info. I didn't realize you had to decompress mp3 to audio cd in the conversion process. Guess I have to tell my uncle the disappointing news.
Oh, by the way, I believed you mean mp3 to Red Book audio (the standard format for audio CDs), not to wav format. Not all cd/dvd players can read wav, and this includes my uncle's dvd player as it doesn't support wav either.
Originally posted by aldan: make a compilation and add the tracks one by one until you fill the cd. then insert another cd and add the rest. in my experience i can get 13-17 tracks on a cd in cd format,depending on the length of the song.
Yes, I can do that, but the problem is that it require at least 7 CDs to fit all of the mp3 tracks. That's too much of a hassle for me to go through this process, not to mention a waste of blank discs. I might as well recommend my uncle to buy a new DVD player with mp3 support.
Originally posted by iluvendo:MP3 is a very compressed form of data. When we convert mp3 to wav (cd ) the reversal is about 20x (more or less) larger, so mp33 with 635 Mb of data in wav is about 12.7 Gb. This is why nero 8 says your 700Mb disc is not enough.
Thanks for the info. I didn't realize you had to decompress mp3 to audio cd in the conversion process. Guess I have to tell my uncle the disappointing news.
Oh, by the way, I believed you mean mp3 to Red Book audio (the standard format for audio CDs), not to wav format. Not all cd/dvd players can read wav, and this includes my uncle's dvd player as it doesn't support wav either.
Wav = red book cd.
All this means is that in converting his mp3s to wav = red book cds is that he's gonna have a bunch of cds.
