TSGL: recommendation

[Trio800_BonBon]

If you instruct nero to create an audio cd in will 
reconvert the mp3 to wav. Thus it will be an 800mb file.

I think you need to burn the mp3 as a data file. Your 
DVD/CD player will need to be able to read the mp3 
format. Most do.

Bob

gcc wrote:
> That CDex is a nice (free!) program Ron... thanks for the reco.  So I 
> decided to give the mp3 format (burned on cd) a try to see if I could live 
> with the compression that Justin and Alan suggested might be a problem for 
> me.
> CDex did it's job perfectly, converting the wav files to mp3. Problem is, 
> that Nero won't burn the mp3 files to my brand new, empty, 700 MB cd-r. I 
> get a message that says I don't have enough room on the blank cd to burn the 
> files.  Checking the properties of each mp3 file I find that they only total 
> to 87.7 MB, so there should be plenty of room on that blank cd. As an aside, 
> the wav file that I converted to mp3 was 800 MB, so that sure is a lot of 
> compressing!  Anyway, I can't imagine why Nero tells me there's not enough 
> room on the blank cd. Any ideas about that?
> 
> Thanks
> gcc
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Ron Grant" <nortnarg at gmail.com>
> To: "Tech Support Guy Mailing List" <list at tsgserver.com>
> Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2008 1:51 PM
> Subject: Re: TSGL: recommendation
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>> CDex  can be downloaded at:  http://cdexos.sourceforge.net   It is a
>> free program that will rip CD's to your computer compressing from the
>> .wav format to .mp3.
>> Once that is done then you can create a disc containing an assortment of
>> .mp3 music files from the computer  and burn them to a CD disc.
>> Usually I can get around 130 songs on one disc this way.
>>
>>
>> gcc wrote:
>>> Hi all.  Can anyone recommend here recommend a (preferably) free program
>>> that compresses wav files, which can then be burned onto a single cd.  As 
>>> a
>>> classical music lover who has cds where a single symphony (Mahler's, for
>>> instance) spans 2 discs, I would like to compress the wav file enough to 
>>> get
>>> them on one disc.  Having to get up out of bed to change discs is 
>>> annoying
>>> to say the least :)
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>> gcc
>>>
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