previewing CD burnings for space

Thanks, that helped. Other questions have occurred to me, but before writing again, I'm going to go through the process. Maybe things will just fall into place; if not, I'll be back.

Well, thiings didn't work out as I had hoped, but I did manage to burn a CD. Even so, I don't understand some things; for example:

(1) I was unable to follow your instructions. There was no "show status bar".

(2) I was given the choice of recording at many speeds. What "speed" means I don't know, because the disc I recorded at 1X sounds the same as the disc I recorded at Maximum speed. What does "speed" mean, and shouldn't it effect the quality of the recording? What about space on the disc?

(3) I don't how how much I can include on a CD. I used the AIFF format. I had been planning to burn as many poems on my disc as possible, but since I was unable to read its capacity, I only burned "The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam," which is about twenty-five minutes. There was probably room for another half hour, but I just don't know.

(4) If I can eventually use your method, will it enable me to know (A) the capacity of the disc? (B) The remaining capacity as I keep adding sound files?

Chris CA wrote:

At 1X speed it will take 60 minutes to burn 60 minutes of music.

At 4X speed, it will take 15 minutes to burn 60 minutes of music.

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That was not my experience. I didn't time the burnings, but none of them took longer than, say, three or four minutes. Anyway, if the speed doesn't change the quality of the recording, why wouldn't you always use the fastest method?

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An audio CD will have about 70 minutes maximum. Look at the total time of the playlist to see how big the playlist is.

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That worked. Thanks for the tip.

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(3) I don't how how much I can include on a CD.

When burning an AudioCD, you can burn a max of ~70 minutes (maybe a few minutes less). Doesn't matter what format the files are on your computer. They will all be burned as audio.

Look at the total time of your playlist.

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Okay, now I know what to do: check total time of playlst after adding each file. Simple. Thanks for telling me what to do.

Jimzgoldfinch wrote:

Hi,

When burning a music CD, ITunes will convert the track to a format that you will be able to play in a CD / DVD Player. Files in AIFF be fine to burn to disc but if they are not already in that format you do not need to convert to that format.

Create a playlist of the music that you wish to burn to disc. Use status bar to determine total time. CDRs can contain up to 80 minutes. You should keep time just below the 80 minutes. Disc are write once so if you put only 25 minutes on the the disc, that is all you get. You can't add more later.

Jim

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Yes, I understand now. Thanks.

There's no stopping me now. I just burned a playlist of 209 songs. I was trying to get an idea of the capacity of the discs I am using. That didn't work, because I used the MP3 format, and the disc took them all. Then I did the same thing using the AIFF format, but I was told that there was insufficient room on the disc. That's what I was waiting for, so I went ahead and burned 29 songs lasting 1.3 hours onto the disc. I also learned the answer to somerthing that had been bothering me. I knew that some of the 212 songs were not in the MP3 format, but I didn't know which ones. Simple, I was given the names of the three songs that weren't in that format.

I've been having other problems with my computer, but burning discs is no longer one of them. Thanks for your help. Oh, I also loaded four poetry LPs into my computer using an iMic; then, using the MP3 format, I burned them onto one disc. I've had those records for at least thirty years, and they've been accumulating scratches, etc. However, I have finally saved them fromm further deterioration by making them part of my iTunes library