Too long to fit on CD

[Despina]

Forgive me if I send ignorant, but I'm not great with computers.
Anyway, I have a MP3 of a concert that's well over an hour. Is there
a user-friendly way that I can get this thing onto a disc, perhaps one
half on one disc and the second half on a second disc? I've looked
through these cutting programs, and they're too much for me to
understand. Can anyone help?

[Kalman Rubinson]

On 23 Apr 2004 20:30:38 -0700, (Despina)
wrote:

>Forgive me if I send ignorant, but I'm not great with computers.
>Anyway, I have a MP3 of a concert that's well over an hour. Is there
>a user-friendly way that I can get this thing onto a disc, perhaps one
>half on one disc and the second half on a second disc? I've looked
>through these cutting programs, and they're too much for me to
>understand. Can anyone help?

If it's an MP3, it may be compressed enough to fit already. A more
important issue than how long is: How big is the file?

Kal

[normanstrong]

"Despina" > wrote in message
om...
> Forgive me if I send ignorant, but I'm not great with computers.
> Anyway, I have a MP3 of a concert that's well over an hour. Is
there
> a user-friendly way that I can get this thing onto a disc, perhaps
one
> half on one disc and the second half on a second disc? I've looked
> through these cutting programs, and they're too much for me to
> understand. Can anyone help?

What is the exact length of the concert? With that info, we can help
you.

Norm Strong

[Despina]

It says 84.9 MB (89,034,880 bytes).



Kalman Rubinson > wrote in message >...
> On 23 Apr 2004 20:30:38 -0700, (Despina)
> wrote:
>
> >Forgive me if I send ignorant, but I'm not great with computers.
> >Anyway, I have a MP3 of a concert that's well over an hour. Is there
> >a user-friendly way that I can get this thing onto a disc, perhaps one
> >half on one disc and the second half on a second disc? I've looked
> >through these cutting programs, and they're too much for me to
> >understand. Can anyone help?
>
> If it's an MP3, it may be compressed enough to fit already. A more
> important issue than how long is: How big is the file?
>
> Kal

[Stoned Hippy]

Just a guess but I'd say he's converting it into a .wav file for listening
to on a cd player and this would make it just too long for one cd (if
recorded at around 128kbps).

Stoned Hippy

"Despina" > wrote in message
om...
> It says 84.9 MB (89,034,880 bytes).
>
>
>
> Kalman Rubinson > wrote in message
>...
> > On 23 Apr 2004 20:30:38 -0700, (Despina)
> > wrote:
> >
> > >Forgive me if I send ignorant, but I'm not great with computers.
> > >Anyway, I have a MP3 of a concert that's well over an hour. Is there
> > >a user-friendly way that I can get this thing onto a disc, perhaps one
> > >half on one disc and the second half on a second disc? I've looked
> > >through these cutting programs, and they're too much for me to
> > >understand. Can anyone help?
> >
> > If it's an MP3, it may be compressed enough to fit already. A more
> > important issue than how long is: How big is the file?
> >
> > Kal

[CJT]

Despina wrote:

> It says 84.9 MB (89,034,880 bytes).

You ought to be able to fit seven copies of it on one CD.

>
>
>
> Kalman Rubinson > wrote in message >...
>
>>On 23 Apr 2004 20:30:38 -0700, (Despina)
>>wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Forgive me if I send ignorant, but I'm not great with computers.
>>>Anyway, I have a MP3 of a concert that's well over an hour. Is there
>>>a user-friendly way that I can get this thing onto a disc, perhaps one
>>>half on one disc and the second half on a second disc? I've looked
>>>through these cutting programs, and they're too much for me to
>>>understand. Can anyone help?
>>
>>If it's an MP3, it may be compressed enough to fit already. A more
>>important issue than how long is: How big is the file?
>>
>>Kal


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[Despina]

It's 1 hour, 32 minutes, and 44 seconds long.

"normanstrong" > wrote in message news:<gexic.20773$aQ6.1266948@attbi_s51>...
> "Despina" > wrote in message
> om...
> > Forgive me if I send ignorant, but I'm not great with computers.
> > Anyway, I have a MP3 of a concert that's well over an hour. Is
> there
> > a user-friendly way that I can get this thing onto a disc, perhaps
> one
> > half on one disc and the second half on a second disc? I've looked
> > through these cutting programs, and they're too much for me to
> > understand. Can anyone help?
>
> What is the exact length of the concert? With that info, we can help
> you.
>
> Norm Strong

[Kalman Rubinson]

Yes but it depends on how you record it. If you put the MP3 on the CD
and use it in a player that can play MP3s, it will fit many times over
as most CDRs can hold 800mB.

OTOH, if you convert it to a standard CD format, it is too long.

Kal

On 24 Apr 2004 20:09:22 -0700, (Despina)
wrote:

>It's 1 hour, 32 minutes, and 44 seconds long.
>
>"normanstrong" > wrote in message news:<gexic.20773$aQ6.1266948@attbi_s51>...
>> "Despina" > wrote in message
>> om...
>> > Forgive me if I send ignorant, but I'm not great with computers.
>> > Anyway, I have a MP3 of a concert that's well over an hour. Is
>> there
>> > a user-friendly way that I can get this thing onto a disc, perhaps
>> one
>> > half on one disc and the second half on a second disc? I've looked
>> > through these cutting programs, and they're too much for me to
>> > understand. Can anyone help?
>>
>> What is the exact length of the concert? With that info, we can help
>> you.
>>
>> Norm Strong

[normanstrong]

"Despina" > wrote in message
om...
> It's 1 hour, 32 minutes, and 44 seconds long.

That is indeed an unfortunate length. Here are the possibilities:

1. Burn it as an mp3 file on a CDR, and play it back on a DVD player
that's designed to play back mp3 encoded discs. Most DVD players
these days fit that description. This is the easy way, but it will
not play on just any old CD player. So, if you want to make lots of
copies of this program, or want it to play on ANY CD player, this will
not be a solution.

2. Convert the mp3 file to a .wav file, using one of the cheap or
free converter programs; edit out as much of the dead time as
possible, in order to reduce the running time below 90 minutes, then
burn it onto a 90 minute CDR.

3. Convert as above and divide the .wav file into 2 files and burn
each one on a separate CDR blank.

Norm Strong




> "normanstrong" > wrote in message
news:<gexic.20773$aQ6.1266948@attbi_s51>...
> > "Despina" > wrote in message
> > om...
> > > Forgive me if I send ignorant, but I'm not great with computers.
> > > Anyway, I have a MP3 of a concert that's well over an hour. Is
> > there
> > > a user-friendly way that I can get this thing onto a disc,
perhaps
> > one
> > > half on one disc and the second half on a second disc? I've
looked
> > > through these cutting programs, and they're too much for me to
> > > understand. Can anyone help?
> >
> > What is the exact length of the concert? With that info, we can
help
> > you.
> >
> > Norm Strong

[wkearney99]

"Despina" > wrote in message
om...
> It's 1 hour, 32 minutes, and 44 seconds long.

Then you can't put it whole on a CD, at least not for playback from normal CD
players. The max you can jam onto standard CDs is 74 minutes (1h14m) and /some/
players will let you store 80 minutes (1h20m). You need 12m44s more than would
fit.

Try editing the file to squeeze out some dead air or something. Or consider
speeding up parts of it. The slight amount of speed-up necessary probably won't
be noticeable to most people. In fact, if you can shrink it enough you might
consider making a hybrid disc. Put the regular CD audio track and then put on a
data track that contains the full length audio, at normal speed and without
editing, in an MP3 file. Try encoding it at various mp3 bitrates (192k is often
decent 'enough' for most music). Then once you know the total size of the mp3
encoding you can do the math to figure out just how much you'd need to squeeze
the raw audio to let both of them fit on a standard CD.

-Bill Kearney