Question about burning files to CD

[Snickers]

Okay all I know I have done this before but I can't remember how. I want to burn all of my mp3 files to a CD so I can give them to my brother to take to school with him and copy to his computer. How do I burn them so that they are just playable through a computer and thus take up less space on the CD than actually burning it to be played as a music CD in a CD player?

Thanks for the help

[NightHawk]

burn it as a data cd, i think. as opposed to music cd. never done it before, but that's how it would go, i assume.

[AbnormalBob]

Originally posted by NightHawk@Aug 30 2004, 12:33 AM
burn it as a data cd, i think. as opposed to music cd. never done it before, but that's how it would go, i assume.
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[The Original Taco]

Yep, just a data CD...

[kuju]

well, since that question is answered... I have another.

Do you need an actual different kind of hardware (drive) to burn onto a DVD-ROM than a CD-ROM? I have a CD burner... but something smeone said gave me the impression that I needed a different drive to burn onto a DVD-ROM. I wanted the DVD for the higher quality....

clarification: I have a CD burner, and a DVD watching drive....

[Bravehearter]

The CD Burner burns CDs, and it cant read DVDs. You cant write in a language you dont speak can you? ;)

In order to burn dvds your going to need a DVD Burner. Not just a ROM.

[Lone_Raider]

My burning software gives me the option to burn files as Mp3 or .WAV, not sure if yours has that but if it does just choose Mp3. Other then that, the Data thing should work.

[kuju]

it's so silly... my CD burner is able to burn movies... just only onto CD-ROMs. I want to use the DVD-rom disk. bah.

[Kuky]

Since DVD's require a much finer laser for burning and for reading (which clearly have different intensities), a combo drive that reads/write both CDs and DVDs would require four lasres. You have 3/4 (missing the DVD write one). It's not silly at all, it's marketting :P

[3rdEarth]

Your burning software should let you save your music as mp3 instead of wavs so it will take up less space.
See the settings and select the bit rate you want. I reccomend atleast 192kb for quality.
Then put all the mp3s on to the cd and burn it.

[Palmer of the Turks]

Burn the mp3s as "files" or "data cd"
Not as "audio"
That's all there is to it.

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kuju: You need a DVD burner for that, plain and simple. And you're looking at several hundred bucks.

AND you're looking at competing formats like DVD+RW versus DVD-R(W), which can cause compatibility problems if you want to view them on a drive or player that doesn't support that standard.

Plus... something to consider: You're burning the movie files to CD right? Downloaded off the net?

Then what you're burning them to will NOT make a difference. The quality level is determined by the FILE, not by how you burn it or what you burn it to.

The only difference a DVD burner would make, in this instance, would be to let you burn 6 times as many movies to a single disc. That's all.

The only way to get DVD quality movies would be to download DVD quality files (which you are NOT going to find, as they are about 4-6 times bigger than the normal movie files online) or to rip the movie from the DVD itself and then burn it back (but in that case, you'd just copy the DVD instead)

[IGemini]

Several hundred dollars for a DVD burner? Palmer, where are you getting your numbers?

http://www.tigerdirect.ca/applications/cat...lc.asp?CatId=89 (http://www.tigerdirect.ca/applications/category/category_slc.asp?CatId=89)

If you wanted, you can go the extra mile and buy a dual-layer burner, which burns data to both sides of the DVD. It's not mainstream yet, but it's possible. The more recent drives do tend to support the different formats.

[Palmer of the Turks]

Off the top of my head... they were a few hundred last time I saw prices, and I didn't think they'd have dropped that much that fast.

[Bravehearter]

Most are under 99 bucks now.