Renaming files from Audio CDs

[theroberts]

I know that it is possible to burn 100s of songs to a regular CD-R, my question is how ? All the CDs that I have burned only fit about 18 songs on a 80 minute cd (give or take a song). I've downloaded .mp3s and .wav songs off the internet and burned cds of those songs, burned copies of my cd collection, burned mixes of songs off my cd collection, but I have no clue how to take the songs off my cd collection and rename them so that 100s of them will fit on 1 cd. I am assuming (we know what that does) I rename them to .mp3 or something, but I don't know if that is correct and even if it is - I don't know how to do that. Can someone help me ? Thanks so much !

 

[Barometer]

Welcome to the board,

The reason you can't burn 100s of songs is that you have to encode them as MP3s first. Than burn them as MP3s, not audio. There are threads that talk about this in the BBS, just do a search for MP3 encoder or something like that. Hope this answers your question

 

[drstawl]

Using 128 Kbps encoding you can get 11 hours on a CD.

I personally like 192 Kbps encoding better since the quality is better and there's still plenty of room on the CD. At least seven hours worth.

Burn a DATA CD as opposed to a MUSIC CD and copy the .mp3 files to the CD.

Sound Forge has a really cool Batch encoding application. You just select the .wav files you want from your HD and the encoding parameters and the program handles all the naming conventions automatically.

 

[dachay2tnr]

Just be aware that you won't be able to play the CD in a standard audio CD player (unless that player is equipped to play .mp3's). Some of the newer ones have that capability, but most older ones don't.

 

[SPINSTERWUN]

.... Some of the newer ones have that capability, but most older ones don't.

I was going to say exactly the same thing.