Never thought I'd be puzzled on this subject after doing so much burning of movies to DVD but I am. Just downloaded an audio book which is 30mb in size. First head scratcher is: How can audio that is 30mb in size, be 1 hour 50 minutes in length (not a zipped file), when 10 three minute Mp3 songs would normally be around 30mb? Next puzzler. The 30mb file won't fit on a 700mb CDR, presumably because it's more than 80 minutes in length. But I have an audio book received free out of a newspaper of a similar length that is on one CDR! How can I fit it on one CDR or do I have to put it on a DVDR???
Maybe the sound quality isn't so good? The sound quality is much more important in music files where you can easily hear all the glitches in it, whereas in audio books it doesn't matter if the quality isn't the best possible, as long as the voice is clear enough of course. If you burn the file on the CD in mp3 format, you should be able to put all your audio books on that CD... I haven't used Nero for a while, but I think it automatically tries to convert your mp3 file into "normal" CD audio format. Try burning a "data CD" instead of a music CD. You will need a CD player that can also play mp3 CDs though. [/QUOTE]
if the 30 mb file is in mp3 format you should just be able to burn it as a data file onto a cdr i suspect the size of the file may be down to it being an audio book you can get away with recording it at a much lower bit rate than with music (music shows distortion at lower bitrates) EDIT: beat me to it tomi
Thanks Tomi. Was just coming back on to say I'd done that - burnt it as a data cd rather than an audio one. Haven't burnt a CD for ages, so must be out of practice. Took a while for the penny to drop.
