Trying to fit 84 minutes on 80 minute disc

DCFC79

Im burning to cd some albums i bought off amazon and 1 of the albums is 20 tracks which means its bigger than the disc im using, disc is 0 minutes and the tracks are 84 minutes in total. Can i compress the 20 tracks to fit on the disc or is there a program that will compress and burn at same time, im using cd burner xp

SatanicHare

you can overburn a cd, but i think you'll get about 82-83 mins that way. Have a look for 100min cd's, guaranteed to fit then

WhiteChristmas

A standard CDR will hold 700meg; that's 80 minutes of data in the format a standard CD player will read, so if you want it to play on your hi-fi, you're stuck with that.

Overburning can get to 84 minutes at a push, but compatibility becomes a problem.

DCFC79

SatanicHare wrote: »

you can overburn a cd, but i think you'll get about 82-83 mins that way. Have a look for 100min cd's, guaranteed to fit then

i wasnt sure if you could buy 100 mins as i hadnt seen them before

WhiteChristmas wrote: »

A standard CDR will hold 700meg; that's 80 minutes of data in the format a standard CD player will read, so if you want it to play on your hi-fi, you're stuck with that.

Overburning can get to 84 minutes at a push, but compatibility becomes a problem.

well its for use in the car mainly, maybe the odd occaison in the hifi so would a 100 mnute cd work in a car stereo then,

might think about it as i dont want to buy any and find it cant be read

thanks

WhiteChristmas

I haven't used CDBurner since moving to Win7, but if memory serves it will have a go at overburning for you as follows; when you're prompted about there being too much data for the disk, there should be a little drop-down beside the "eject" button - that gives you the overburn feature.

Give it a go - it'll only cost you a CD.

paddyrg

Fitting a quart into a pint pot?! ;-)

I think you'll hit compatibility problems very quickly - perhaps leave out the dud track you get on every album and you'll be a lot surer ;-)

WhiteChristmas

paddyrg wrote: »

perhaps leave out the dud track you get on every album

I wish someone would tell the artists that...

DatabaseError

besides leaving out a track, you could also try removing the 2 second gap between tracks, every little bit helps

DCFC79

WhiteChristmas wrote: »

I haven't used CDBurner since moving to Win7, but if memory serves it will have a go at overburning for you as follows; when you're prompted about there being too much data for the disk, there should be a little drop-down beside the "eject" button - that gives you the overburn feature.

Give it a go - it'll only cost you a CD.

true, ill give it a shot

paddyrg wrote: »

Fitting a quart into a pint pot?! ;-)

I think you'll hit compatibility problems very quickly - perhaps leave out the dud track you get on every album and you'll be a lot surer ;-)

no thought of that, ill give the cd a listen and drop 1

ManAtHome

At the risk of being too obvious - will the player handle MP3-encoded tracks?

Richie-from-the-Boro

DCFC79 - take out or shorten [ editor ] the silent spaces between tracks see if you can save 4 mins, alternatively recompile it with your least favourite track missing.