Burning CDs

[tubthumper]

I have downloaded an album (from a legit site), and am now trying to burn it onto an audio cd. However, the album has a run time of just over 1 hour and 32 minutes, and so it wont fit on any blank disc I can find. The file is in wma format and is 85.2 mb, so does anyone know how to fit it onto a blank cd?

Cheers

Thumper.

[seacue]

CDs are limited to 640 or 700 megabytes.

1) You've misplaced the decimal point. Your file must be around 850 Mby, not 85.

2) The only way to fit it onto one CD is to compress the content ... but then it won't be a standard music CD and won't play on most CD players.

Some audio "CD" players will play MP3, so you could compress using that format if you have such a player. Otherwise you'll have to edit the file and move some of the content to another file - which you could record on a second standard-format CD.

A free audio editor is Audacity, available from sourceforge. http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

Oops: To quote the Audacity site: "Note: Audacity does not currently support WMA, AAC, or most other proprietary or restricted file formats."
It will edit WAV, MP3, etc. files.

A quart won't fit in a pint pot.

[Mac the Knife]

Easy Mp3 Ogg Wma Cutter - http://koyotstar.free.fr/indexEn.html

Absolute MP3 Splitter Converter - http://iaudiosoft.com/mp3splitter.htm

"MP3 Cutter Joiner is a powerful and easy-to-use audio editor, which builds audio cutter and joiner into one. Supports MP3, WAV, WMA and OGG format." - http://www.audiotoolsfactory.com/mp3-cutter/mp3-cutter.htm

Boilsoft's AVI/MPEG/ASF/WMV Splitter - http://www.boilsoft.com/videosplitter/

Audio File Cutter 1.20 - http://www.gold-software.com/download9594.html

Shareware I'm afraid - can't find freeware @ the moment

And checkout http://www.free-codecs.com/index.htm

[Background Noise]

I'm guessing he's right - an 85 Meg WMA file would be about that long in audio terms. Mid range compression gives about 1 minute per meg ish so that would be 85 mins ie around 1 hr 30 min.

As he says, he can't get that on an audio CD - was it a double album?

Never played with a single file for a whole album - does WMP show individual tracks - if so you should be able to burn from there - half the tracks to one disc, the others to another. Otherwise I guess a splitter as listed above. There seem to be more MP3 editters than for WMA but you can certainly get software to convert from WMA to MP3 then split maybe?

[tubthumper]

"Six Degrees of Separation", by Dream Theater. Not a double album, but you do get yer money's worth with these guys. Looks like it's going to be a double album now, though. Thanks, anyway.:ok: