fitting more minutes on an audio cd

[shifflav]

I have about 400 minutes of audio. It was recorded via a digital pen recorder and transferred to my PC through a USB cable. The 400+ minutes take up about 500MB of space in WAV format. My problem is this.

500MB can easily fit on a CD...but, because I am doing it as an audio CD, I'm instead limited to 'minutes'...of which I have way too much. Any suggestions or a way to fool the computer? It seems such a waste to have to burn multiple cd's, when memory-wise, it will easily fit on one CD with room to spare.

Thanks for your help and ideas.

 

[Harvey Gerst]

I'm assuming that even though they're wav files, they are not recorded in stereo at 16 bits/44.1 sampling frequency?

If you want to store them on a CD, no problem, just transfer them onto one CD as wav files, but that means the CD won't play on a standard CD player (which only looks at 16/44.1 formats).

 

[SalJustSal]

Firstly this is the wrong thread for this post, it should be in the computers section, but I see this is your first post here, and I guess we might be able to forgive you. This time

Ok you recorded it in wav format and have crammed 400 minutes into 500 megs. Yeeeshhh. What rate did you record it at? For example the normal cd would be 16 bit / 44.1 khz, did you record way below this? If you are going to be making it into cds to play in cd players and such, this is the format it will need to be in, and you'll be limited to a maximum of about 80 minutes a disc. Otherwise you could leave it in its low rate wav format (or a low format such as MP3) and stick it on one disc, which can be played as a wav on your computer. Anybody else have ideas?

-Sal

 

[Dolemite]

You clearly need a new mic.

 

[crazydoc]

It sounds like they're recorded at 8 bit depth, 11025 sampling rate stereo or 22050 mono, which would give you 400 minutes in 520mb. I think if you converted them, as suggested, to mp3's you could get them all on one disk, and you certainly wouldn't lose any "quality" in the sound.

I believe many of the newer DVD players will play mp3 files. However, if you want to make audio CD's you are limited to a minute for minute conversion, no matter what sampling rate you used to record them.

Alternatively, unless you have 400 minutes of great sounds (this is almost 7 hours of listening time), you could edit the material down to a smaller time frame.

 

[shifflav]

Thanks everyone for your replies. Yes, it is below 44.1khz. As I had mentioned, it was imported from a digital pen. Therefore the reason it takes up so little space. The pen records nearly 8 hours of audio into its 16mb memory at LP and 4 hours at SP. Believe it or not, the sound is quite clear. I guess I'm out of luck and am stuck with the 80-minute limit regardless...

Thanks again.

 

[cominginsecond]

Why even stress about it? CDs are cheep.