audio - how much can fit on one disc

[james the less]

How do I pack about 50 to 100 mp3 audio sermons on a single cd?

 

Will EMC8 do the job?

 

My first attempt would not allow nearly as much content on the cd.

[d_deweywright]

How do I pack about 50 to 100 mp3 audio sermons on a single cd?

 

Will EMC8 do the job?

 

My first attempt would not allow nearly as much content on the cd.

As others have said, "It depends". If we assume 20-30 minute sermons, then you're talking about 16.6 to 50 hours of sermons. Quite a range. At 128Kbps encoding rate, stereo, MP3 files take up roughly 1MB per minute, so you're limited to about 11 hours. If you change it to mono, you should be able to double that to about 22 hours for the same 128Kbps bit rate. Cut that in half to 64Kbps, mono, then you're up to 44 hours or so, and now you're getting into the range you want.

 

As was also said, you need to make sure you're creating an MP3 disc (which is a Data CD full of .MP3 files, not an Audio CD). This type of disc will not be playable on a standard home CD player unless it is a newer one that supports MP3 discs.

 

So, the answer isn't so much, "Will EMC8 do the job?", it's "can I create the appropriate MP3 files to fit on the CD?" And I would say the answer should be, "Yes". Will they be of the 'quality' you want, well, that depends on what you want/need.

 

If you need more help, ask.

[sknis]

How do I pack about 50 to 100 mp3 audio sermons on a single cd?

 

Will EMC8 do the job?

 

My first attempt would not allow nearly as much content on the cd.

 

Try looking at/burning a audio DVD. You'll need a DVD player to play it though.

How many hours of sermons is that? CD are inexpensive; why so many on one?

[james the less]

Try looking at/burning a audio DVD. You'll need a DVD player to play it though.

How many hours of sermons is that? CD are inexpensive; why so many on one?

 

Thanks for the reply.

 

Most people have CD players at home and in vehicles so I believe CD's are more widely usable.

As an example, I have a collection of 100 sermons in MP3 on a single CD and each sermon is about 50+ minutes. This CD was produced by someone else and I have not been able to contact them.

 

My project would involve about 40 CD's in wav format. But MP3 should pack the collection on one CD. I plan to distribute these sermons at no cost but if I have to make 40 CD's instead of a single one it will not be practical.

 

On another attempt I used the bit rate of 96 and that increased the capacity greatly.

 

If I can learn to do this I will have about five similar projects; i.e., about 5 CD's with 40+ sermons on each.

[d_deweywright]

Thanks for the reply.

 

Most people have CD players at home and in vehicles so I believe CD's are more widely usable.

As an example, I have a collection of 100 sermons in MP3 on a single CD and each sermon is about 50+ minutes. This CD was produced by someone else and I have not been able to contact them.

 

My project would involve about 40 CD's in wav format. But MP3 should pack the collection on one CD. I plan to distribute these sermons at no cost but if I have to make 40 CD's instead of a single one it will not be practical.

 

On another attempt I used the bit rate of 96 and that increased the capacity greatly.

 

If I can learn to do this I will have about five similar projects; i.e., about 5 CD's with 40+ sermons on each.

CD players, yes, but most home stereos will not play MP3 CDs unless they're quite new. Car stereos older than about 2 or 3 years very likely will not either, so bear that in mind. Depending on the encoder you use, you can reduce the bitrate to 64K, or possibly even lower, and, as I said, make sure you set it to mono, which will double the amount you can put onto your discs over stereo.

[tbrewst]

One thing to make sure of is that you use Music Disc Creator and the project type is set to mp3/wma disc.Depending on the size of the mp3's you should be able to fit quite a few on there.If you burn as an Audio cd then you probably won't get very many.The mp3 disc is based on size whereas the Audio cd is based on time.