how do i fit more songs on a regular audio cd ?

[eastyy]

my car cd play wont run mp3s and can only fit about 20 tunes on a cd

[Number45]

If you create a proper audio CD from already compressed files, I would think you'd be able to fit more on then? Haven't tried, but I think it's possible with WMP.

[eastyy]

for some reason wmp is not recognising i have a cd burner so been using nero

[Rossco]

Don't think you can mate, unless you were to heavily compress the WAV files.

[merf]

i don't think you can at all, can't get too techie on it but a normal audio cd is rated in minutes, even if you have your music at a lower sample/quality rate when burnt into the format for a normal cd player to read it will only be 80mins max but just sound lousy.

i may be wrong but only way to squeeze more on is to have a player than can play a compressed music file, not just a standard audio track.

[Matt]

What Merf said, you can't do it.

[Rossco]

Oh yeh it's in minutes isn't it! Totally forgot that!

Yeh just get an MP3 player if you can, they're getting cheaper and cheaper these days. I couldn't live without it in my car.

[Widegoat]

You can usually overburn on an 80min CD to about 83 mins, but that is useless in the grand scheme of things. The only thing that you can do is buy a 99min blank CD-R and burn on that. The CD spec allows CDs to contain an area of "self description" telling CD players how big they are - and 99 mins is the top of what is allowed in the spec. Some players might struggle to play the final couple of tracks though.

Lyris might know more about this than I do!

[Lyris]

i don't think you can at all, can't get too techie on it but a normal audio cd is rated in minutes, even if you have your music at a lower sample/quality rate when burnt into the format for a normal cd player to read it will only be 80mins max but just sound lousy.

That's right, an Audio CD has a fixed data rate so you can't lower the quality to fit more on.

I'm not too sure about CD technology but like Widegoat said, I seem to remember that some people had luck with "overburning" discs, but in reality they only managed to squeeze an extra few minutes out of them.