help with buying discs

rhodyate

ive had some discs of a friend with lots of music on them, which i have put on my pc. but id like to put a selection on discs so i can play them at work. im not sure what discs to buy 16x 52x etc. i want to convert my music to mp3 so i can get as much on a disc as possible. any help would be great regarding which to buy how many songs roughly id get on a disc. and where to buy them at a good price. i seen that woolworths were doing a 100 discs 52x for £17 but dont really know if thats a good price.

bat999

Hi
Those 52x CD-R are the type for you. They are recordable CD discs.
If you see some 16x types then they are probably DVD discs.
The price of £17 for 100 is about right. Tescos are slightly cheaper.
You can buy smaller packs too.

An mp3 music track is about 5MB (Mega Bytes) in size. But this depends on many things, such as the length of the track and the way it has been recorded.
A CD-R disc is 700MB capacity.
So you'll probably get 100 to 200 mp3 tracks on a disc.
:cool:

totalsolutions

Dont jump in and purchase 100 for a first time buyer. Not all discs are of the same "goodness" I only use TDK from a pc show but at a higher cost, but all of mine work on most players all tha time and I wont suffer any loss of use over the next 20-40 yrs. if you look after them. The first cd's I brought a long time ago were £17 EACH (gold plated then) so thats a bargain, but really thats too little to pay.......are they branded? The last time I brought TDK I think I paid something like £4.50/10.

First try a smaller number and check that your writer "likes" them and do a couple with verify switched on. Check they play on all youur cd players at home in the office and round you friends players and in the car. If they pass your little test then thats fine, if not get some other brands in and retest.

Speed wise its a marketing gimmick.
How big is a cd? = 700Mb
How many songs on a cd in mp3 format= 700Mb worth
It might be one song or hundreds of songs.

Its all about the cd size 700Mb or about 74 mins playing time for normal cd audio.

mp3 compresses audio by a factor of ten to 1 (10:1)
So a 74min. cd now holds about 740 mins of mp3 sound about 12 hrs.
now if each song was exactly 12hrs long thats your one song but I think they are more like 3.5mins each so that would be 211 songs.

uktyler

bat999 wrote: »

Hi
Those 52x CD-R are the type for you. They are recordable CD discs.
If you see some 16x types then they are probably DVD discs.
The price of £17 for 100 is about right. Tescos are slightly cheaper.
You can buy smaller packs too.

Poundland, Netto and Lidl all sell blank CD's for your first discs I would get those, you will probably have a few mishaps.

I take it you can play MP3 discs on a machine at work, and not a normal CD player?

rhodyate

thanks for your help guys, ill probs buy some good quality discs instead of the cheaper option.