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[butcherbilly1324]

Can someone explain what the difference is between a cd-rw 700mb and dvd + rw 4.7 GB I need a disc with lots of space for music backing tracks..
Thanks for any help..

[MarkRae]

Apart from the obvious that one's a CD and the other a DVD, the only practical difference in your case is the much greater storage capacity of the DVD...

[butcherbilly1324]

Thanks for that..markrae

[Aquariel]

You don't say in what situation you're planning to play them, but you can't burn CD audio format to a DVD. So if you're using backing tracks for something like karaoke, you'll need a computer/laptop to play them from a DVD+RW as mp3 files. A CD-RW may also not play in some stand-alone players.

[butcherbilly1324]

Hi aquariel, the problem i have is that i have about 8 discs with about 4-8 tracks on each disc, and they are all at different sound levels, i need to put them on to one disc at the same volume, i was planning to use audacity to do this, and i thought i could use a RW disc for this, as i gather there is more room on these, what do you think..

[rojash]

"and i thought i could use a RW disc for this, as i gather there is more room on these,"

Dunno where you got the idea that RW disks have a higher capacity. The only difference between an RW disk and an RO (or R) disk is that an RW disk can be erased and re-used.

The most important consideration for you is the target player. Whether it can play RW disks, and whether it can play mp3s.

If it can play mp3s then you can easily fit all the tracks on a CD (Whether it's RW or R).

Using Audacity to try to match the volumes is gonna be difficult. Most format converters have a normalise option which allows you to automatically adjust all the tracks in a batch you roughly the volume level.

[MarkRae]

If only you'd mentioned all of that extra (and extremely important!) information in your original post...