80 Minute CD limit

Kwak wrote on 6/20/2005, 1:01 AM

Hello,

I have 30 tracks of audio that I like to burn as an audio CD.
The total 30 tracks equal only 100mb in size and 100 minutes total.

When I attempted to burn the audio CD, Vegas gave me a warning that the total audio is over 80 minutes long.

My question is: Why is the audio burning limited to only 80 minutes when the total size is only 100mb (the blank CDR is 700mb)?

Comments

mangooo wrote on 6/20/2005, 2:16 AM

u are trying t o burn 100 minutes of audio on a 80 min audio cdr.

Theres the problem. vegas will convert all audio to 16bit 44khz wav files before burn.

so the final size will be around 1 gb of data and not 100mb

Geoff_Wood wrote on 6/20/2005, 1:19 PM

Not just Vegas. ANY Audio CD burning software MUST convert to 16 bit, 44.1KHz Stereo , or it isn't an Audio CD, and won't play on a CD player.

Your 100MB of audio files (MP3s) may be an inferior audio format with a large amount of the data thrown away (albeit slightly cleverly). Some DVD players and CD players can play CDROMs with MP3s on directly, but don't confuse that with a real audio CD. But whatever the format of you 100/100MB audio files, they must end up 16/44K1/S to go on a CD.

geoff

farss wrote on 6/20/2005, 3:12 PM

If the audio is already mp3 compressed then the simplest thing is to burn the files as data files onto a CD, pretty well any recent DVD player will play them as will many newer CD players, particularly the walkman style units.
Bob.