recording mini disk to cdr problems

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Hi guys. Just a quick question about recording my mixes from mini disk to cd. I have recorded a few sets to 74min mini disk and when i go to transfer them to cd they are coming out alot bigger than a 74min cd will hold. This is with the sample rate at 44100 and 16bit. Any one have any ideas that they can send me as to why. Thing is when you copy a mixed cd to another cd it fits. Too confusing for me .
Cheers in Advance
King spaghead.
 
Try using only 72min. on your MD. You'll need a little extra space on the CD for the T.O.C. and whatnot.

spin
 
hmmm thats not going to work

This i dont think will work as 1minute of audio is coming out at around 10meg. Times this by 72minutes and it still works out at around....thinking...ahh...720meg. Well over the capacity of a 650meg cd. How on earth do they fit 74minutes of audio on a normal cd at 44100 x 16 bit quality?
Any ideas.
Cheers Spaghead.
 
You should be able to fit a 72 min. mix onto your CD.

If you can't. You will have to use 80 min. CDR's. :)
 
thats what i thought

This is what i am saying.... It wont fit on either. are there some sound cards that expand what it is recording ..i have no idea if i am doing something wrong. I have transfered a whole heap of vinyl to cd before and it worked fine...on a different computer i no longer have though. This one seems to want to make the recordings alot bigger in size. Has anyone experienced this before.
cheers adam.
 
List ALL of your info. ;)

computer specs

burner program

connections

etc...

So we can get this figured out for you. :)

spin
 
I might be barking up the wrong tree here, but data is crompressed on minidisks, so the problem could be related to that??? I've had the same problem, but I just ended up using 80min CDs and it worked fine.
 
Computer specs

pent 3 800
512k ram
soundblaster live value sound card
sony md deck. not portable
analogue leads to connect the two. not using an optical lead.
used spin doctor and cool edit 2000 to record the sound. both have the audio coming out at 1minute = 10mb. at 44100 and 16bit. Had to transfer all the MD to cd so used 80min cd's and still had to cut 8mins off the end of what was recorded. As for the copression of the MD format i thought that aswell so when i recorded an old LP through the same method it came out the same size.???? Thinking maybe it might be a setting on the sound card but had a look and could not figure it out. In fact i am sure it something to do with the sound card anyone use the same one and have no problems?
Very big cheers in Advance
Spaghead.
 
Sounds like you recorded the MD using LP instead of the normal speed.....

That's the only way it could run longer..........

Bruce
 
yes but....

yeah i thought so but as i said when recording an LP it came out just as long?
 
Huh???

- Using normal stereo mode, you'll get up to 80 minutes of recording time.

- Using LP2, you'll get 160 minutes.

- And at LP4, you'll get 320 minutes.


On a standard CD-R, you will get up to 74 minutes of recording time. Period.

On the 80-minute CD-Rs, you can *potentially* get up to 80 minutes of recording time, but many (especially older) CD players may cut off the last 6 mins.

So it sounds like you're trying to stuff an 80-minute recording onto a 74-minute CD-R OR, you're trying to stuff an LP2 recording onto an 80-minute CD-R. Neither are possible........

Bruce
 
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