CD Capacity

[Colortec]

I recently burned some music onto a blank CD.

The CD had a stated capacity of about 700mb.

However, WMP allowed me to put only 17 tracks on the CD.

If the average size of each track is 4mb, 17 x 4 = 68mb.........this would still leave more than 600mb.

So, whats going on there then?

[boobesque]

you set it to burn in audio mode. this allows the cd to play in any cd-r or cd+r player or whatever cd you have. with audio cd's it is not the size that counts but it rather acts like an old record. it is the length of each song that yuo need to take into account. somewhere on the cd it should say the length of the cd. you could have 4 x 1mb songs each lasting 4 hours but you would not be able to burn a single one onto an audio disc. if you have an mp3 enabled cd player then burning in mp3 format would allow you to put on 700mb regardless of the length of each track.

[mattie]

Also MP3s are compressed, when they are converted to cd audio tracks, they are about 10 times bigger, hence why only seventeen will fit onto a cd.
Created a data cd and drag the MP3s onto it. But your CD player will have to be able to play cdrs and mp3s.

[ugly_bob]

700MB = 80 minutes
650MB = 74 minutes
Tose are the 2 usual disc sizes you get, although you don't see that many of the 650MB ones any more.