How many songs can I fit on a CD?

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How many songs can I fit on a CD?

Hello guys,

Have a question about the CD capacity.....

Burned 20 songs onto a CD this morning, that's almost 100MB according to iTunes.

On the CD it says 700MB though.... I thought I could fit many more songs.

How does it work? Can I fit more?

The CD changer in my car can only hold 6 CDs, it would be nice to have lots of songs on each CD.

I'm very new to music burning and all help will be appreciated.

Thank you

Message was edited by: tadaska

Message was edited by: tadaska

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Posted on Jan 6, 2008 5:41 AM

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ed2345

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Jan 6, 2008 6:20 AM in response to tadaska

If you are burning an *audio CD,* i.e. the kind that can play is a standard CD player, the normal ones hold 80 minutes of music. Disregard the MB on your playlist, because the process of burning an *audio CD* performs an on-the-fly conversion to PCM format, which increases the size substantially. Go by the time of the playlist.

If your car player happens to handle *MP3 CDs*, you can fit many more songs.

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tadaska Author

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Jan 6, 2008 6:42 AM in response to ed2345

Thanks Ed,

I don't know if my car can play MP3s but I will check and if it does I'll try converting the songs into MP3s

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