CD-R / CD-RW Size Limits

[tree hugging hippie crap]

I use the 80 minute/700 meg cd-r discs. I'm just curious, which restraint on disc size counts ? I've never overfilled a cd with music tracks or with a movie file. But, if i were to overfill a cd, what would be the reason?

If i make an audio cd, does the total time of the tracks determine when the cd is full, or does the size of the *.wav files determine when the cd is full ? Also is 192kbps a good bitrate for the give-n-take ratio of amount of songs per cd / quality of the music?

Does the same rule(s) apply for burning an *.avi file? What about for vcd/svcd discs? I've burnt vcd files that were over the 700 meg limit and it made me wonder how i determine when to stop adding crap to nero to burn on a disc.

I just wanna be sure i know exactly how much of something i can put on a cd-r / cd-rw. By the way, i use the cheapest cd-r discs i can find to burn data and video cd's. I use Maxell to burn audio discs. Works for me......

[overdo]

i've got a question about this. the other day i was looking at an album i have in mp3 format. the total album length is 84mins. this is a "mainstream" sorta album so how did the recording studios fit this onto 1 standard cd? i didn't think studios did overburning.....

[Galileo]

Here is the proper info:

AUDIO CD's go by the total TIME of the CD. Yours is 80 minutes.

So the playing time of your songs, may not exceed that.


Songs on AUDIO CD's are NOT in WAV format. WAV is a format made by microsoft, for Windows. CD's were invented by Sony and Philips in 1980. Long before windows was ever invented. WAV format differs from the data on an audio CD in the byte ordering. Little-endian versus Big-endian byte ordering.

MP3's are *NOT* converted to WAV when burned onto a CD. This is a common fallacy that many people still believe. WAV is still an intermediary step when creating an audio CD. Material on a CD is in CDDA format (Compact Disc Digital Audio). Audio CD's are specified according to the ISO REDBOOK AUDIO standard. http://www.cdrfaq.org/faq02.html#S2-2

So, in answer to your question, when burning an AUDIO CD, it goes by the TIME.

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When burning a DATA CD, whether it is text files, doc files, a backup of your system, mp3 files in data format, etc, goes by the SIZE. In your case, 800megs of files will fit.

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Audio CD's can actually hold slightly more than a Data CD because a data cd must reserve a small portion of each sector for error correction data.


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Here is a table of EXACT SIZES of CD-R media:
http://www.cdmediaworld.com/hardware/cdrom/cd_techinfo.shtml#Exact%20CD%20Sizes

Enjoy...

-G

[tree hugging hippie crap]

so your saying that my crappy cd burner burns cd's into the same format as the one's you buy at record shops? I may sound stupid, but i havent really ever cared until i started burning vcd files, and the sizes and time constraints threw me way off.

so no matter what format your audio is in before you burn a cd, be it *.ogg, *.mp3, *.wav or whatever, it all burns to the cd-da format. It's a standard? weird. and all this time i thought my $35 dollar burner was $35 dollars worth of junk. I'll start caring for my burner on a regular basis now.......

[isus]

very interesting galileo.