Help burning a CD

[Mikeinsmd]

I have some songs on my PC I want to put on a CD. I have windows XP home edition. I copy & paste them to the "D" drive using windows explorer then right click & chose "write these files to CD". Here's where the trouble begins.

Windows media player opens and 1st analyzes every song, then it "converts" every song, then it says most of the songs can't be written bc there's not enough room on the device.

Well it's a 750MB CD and I am copying about 100 songs averging 3-4 MB each. It took like 50 min to copy about 10 songs. What gives?

 

[bcp]

What format are you converting to?

MP3s that are around 4 meg will be around 100 meg if converted to regular CD format.

Try doing the conversion and saving it to a temp file, then working directly from that temp file to build the burn.

 

[Mikeinsmd]

What format are you converting to? MP3s that are around 4 meg will be around 100 meg if converted to regular CD format. Try doing the conversion and saving it to a temp file, then working directly from that temp file to build the burn.

Sounds like that is what's happening. Media player converted it automatically when I clicked "Start Copying". I have no idea what it converted them to.

How do I do what you propose?

 

[vraiblonde]

More information, please. Are you trying to burn a CD that will play in an average CD player or are you trying to back up your MP3 collection?

 

[Mikeinsmd]

More information, please. Are you trying to burn a CD that will play in an average CD player or are you trying to back up your MP3 collection?

I want to play the CD

 

[vraiblonde]

I want to play the CD

Then you're only going to get about 15 or so songs on it - that's why the rest won't burn. Like BCP said, the MP3 format is only about 3 or 4 megs per song - the CD (wav) format is 10 times that. So when the program converts the songs to the proper format, obviously they expand and are much larger files.

 

[bcp]

Most of the newer CD players are able to handle the MP3 format.
The ones in my cars do, and The one in my home system does also.

have you tried a straight MP3 in the players?

if all else fails, you can create a file, then name it as your output for the conversion, then from there build your CD as size permits.

 

[LexiGirl75]

While on the subject, Mike reminded me of a dilemma I am having.

I bought a 100pk of HP CD-R's and I thought that they were like the 3 1/4 floppy's and I tried to save documents and pictures to it. Of course it wouldn't do it because I do not have a writer. I assume CD-RW is what the writer is called.

I was going to buy one from DELL but I wasn't sure which kind I should by to go with these 100 discs. I did the chat thing with a Dell CSR but that irritated more than it helped, especially since I was referred to call the 800 line.

Even though I looked on the website at writers I didn't know which one to get because I want to go cheap first. $50 or less but I can not find one that says 52x like the CD-R's box container states. Can I buy a writer with less than 52x and still copy to it with these CD's? TIA

 

[ylexot]

If you have a destop computer, you can pick whatever CD-R drive you want, but I'd suggest a DVD+/-RW drive. You should be able to find one for under $50 and it will write DVD's as well. The 52x on the CD-R's is the maximum speed that you can write to them. Don't worry about that when picking a drive. If the drive can write faster, you can tell it to write slower. If the drive doesn't write that fast, no problem.

 

[SAHRAB]

While on the subject, Mike reminded me of a dilemma I am having.

I bought a 100pk of HP CD-R's and I thought that they were like the 3 1/4 floppy's and I tried to save documents and pictures to it. Of course it wouldn't do it because I do not have a writer. I assume CD-RW is what the writer is called.

I was going to buy one from DELL but I wasn't sure which kind I should by to go with these 100 discs. I did the chat thing with a Dell CSR but that irritated more than it helped, especially since I was referred to call the 800 line.

Even though I looked on the website at writers I didn't know which one to get because I want to go cheap first. $50 or less but I can not find one that says 52x like the CD-R's box container states. Can I buy a writer with less than 52x and still copy to it with these CD's? TIA

If your not really technically savy, and you have at least windows XP, get a USB CD Writer (i'm assuming yer puter has USB slots, any that are 5 years or new should). its really simple to set it up (you just plug it in, and then install the software). the best part is you dont have to crack open the case.

if you can spring a little extra moola, get one that is a MultiWriter, ie. will burn CD's and DVD's, the only catch is with DVD's there are multiple standards (+R -R, +R/W -R/W and multimode) if you go with any kind of DVD burner just pay attention to what "type" and make sure you get blank DVDs that work with it.

as for the Speed get to frazzled, your not going to realistically notice the difference anyways. but yes you can burn 8x (orwhatever) Cd's in a 52X burner

 

[aps45819]

I've found that if you tell the program you're writing audio file to the CD, it does it by the minutes available, i.e. a 70 min. disk will only hold 70 minutes of music. If you write them as data files, you get around 190 songs (MP3) on a disc.

 

[itsbob]

While on the subject, Mike reminded me of a dilemma I am having.

I bought a 100pk of HP CD-R's and I thought that they were like the 3 1/4 floppy's and I tried to save documents and pictures to it. Of course it wouldn't do it because I do not have a writer. I assume CD-RW is what the writer is called.

I was going to buy one from DELL but I wasn't sure which kind I should by to go with these 100 discs. I did the chat thing with a Dell CSR but that irritated more than it helped, especially since I was referred to call the 800 line.

Even though I looked on the website at writers I didn't know which one to get because I want to go cheap first. $50 or less but I can not find one that says 52x like the CD-R's box container states. Can I buy a writer with less than 52x and still copy to it with these CD's? TIA

Go to Staples ask for Brian.. he'll get you what you want.. and plain CD r/RW will be less then $50. AND he'll explain to you how to install it, OR if you offer him a LOT of money (he has a car he needs to fix) he'll do it for you.

 

[vraiblonde]

Now here's my question:

My daughter needs disks for her Sony Mavica, which writes to mini-CD. Do I have to get the actual Mavica CDs, or will any mini-CD do?

 

[itsbob]

Now here's my question:

My daughter needs disks for her Sony Mavica, which writes to mini-CD. Do I have to get the actual Mavica CDs, or will any mini-CD do?

Go to Staples ask Brian...

 

[mainman]

:amazing:

 

[Steve]

Now here's my question:

My daughter needs disks for her Sony Mavica, which writes to mini-CD. Do I have to get the actual Mavica CDs, or will any mini-CD do?

RTFM.

 

[LexiGirl75]

Thank you all for your help esp. ylexot who helped me out with whether or not my CD-R's are worthless or not. Thanks.

My pc I bought this year but I bought it over the phone by calling and getting the Dell account, I have ordered all of my products from there ever since but unfortunately when I ordered the desktop I had no idea that it was being built from an empty shell and that most things were standard and others you had to ask for. I did not know that 3 1/4 floppy's had to be asked for and that MS Office too. I really need to order a new computer with everything I want on it, had this one for almost a year. But I don't know if it will be cheaper to add on or just get a newer one with everything I need. However, I am ready to test the burning out so I will get the writer and I did forget about the DVD part of it. Totally appreciate the info. for you all.

 

[aps45819]

I really need to order a new computer with everything I want on it, had this one for almost a year. But I don't know if it will be cheaper to add on or just get a newer one with everything I need.

I got mine from TQCI, they used some stuff from my old one, the cd burner and the 80 gig hard drive, saaved a few bucks that way. Made recomendations at to what I'd need based on what I wanted to do.

 

[ylexot]

I really need to order a new computer with everything I want on it, had this one for almost a year. But I don't know if it will be cheaper to add on or just get a newer one with everything I need.

Since it's only a year old, it's probably still a good computer. So it's probably cheaper to add on, but it kinda depends on what you have and what you want. Actually, I just bought a new laptop and found that it was cheaper to buy the base version and upgrade it myself (just put in 1GB of RAM ).

Along the lines of what aps said, let us know what you have and what you want to do with your computer, and I'm sure you'll get some recommendations. Might want to start a new thread for it though since this one is about burning CDs and might not get as many people looking at it.

 

[itsbob]

Thank you all for your help esp. ylexot who helped me out with whether or not my CD-R's are worthless or not. Thanks.

My pc I bought this year but I bought it over the phone by calling and getting the Dell account, I have ordered all of my products from there ever since but unfortunately when I ordered the desktop I had no idea that it was being built from an empty shell and that most things were standard and others you had to ask for. I did not know that 3 1/4 floppy's had to be asked for and that MS Office too. I really need to order a new computer with everything I want on it, had this one for almost a year. But I don't know if it will be cheaper to add on or just get a newer one with everything I need. However, I am ready to test the burning out so I will get the writer and I did forget about the DVD part of it. Totally appreciate the info. for you all.

Drop it off at the house, I'll build it for you. You need office? What else you need?

BTW, does the plate on your car say LEXY?? or something VERY close to that?