cd burning question
 

Ive got a 2 hour mix of music on my computer and i want to burn it to cd. my cd's are only 120 mins. how can i do this? I have some dvd+rw's which im told will take the music but can i record the music onto them in the same way that i would on a cd+r so that i can listen to it in my car or will they only accept the music as a data file?
is there a trick im missing? i have been using 'record now!' software to burn my music.

You could record the music as MP3s instead of WAVs. Most newer CD players will play MP3 CDs.

You need an MP3 CD player in your car. Then you burn your music as an iso9660 CD (ie normal files) and you'll have more music than you can shake a stick at.

ok. i dont understand. the file that im trying to burn is a mp3 file. how do i tell my software to burn that onto a dvd+rw? i have the windows media player software that i think you can use to burn stuff with. do you think i need to format the dvd+rw?

Where are you wanting to play the music? You realize that you can't play DVDs anywhere but a PC, right? Unless I'm mistaken, an MP3 player won't recognize the DVD as playable media.

You are making music cd's right now. So you can fit like 15 songs or so on a CD right? When you make music CDs that way they undo the compression of the MP3 format and the information takes up more disc space. If instead of making a music CD you make a Data CD you will keep the MP3's compressed and will be able to contain something like 150 songs maybe more on one CD. The only catch is that only some recent CD players will read this information. If your CD player has that capability you are all set. I know nothing about DVD writing, and doubt that your in dash cd player will be able to read those either. Honestly if you want a lot of music go out and buy a Dell DJ. Cheaper than the ipod, and does the same stuff. A 5GB sized MP3 player will hold a lot of songs 1000 maybe, 20GB will hold 5000 or so. Dell will tell you exactly how many it'll hold I am just going off of what I remember, which is far from reliable. The only reason to buy an ipod is that there are a lot of excessories for them. Seperate speakers, battery chargers, ect ect. I had a problem with my dell DJ and they sent me a new one with a box with paid postage to send my old one back to them. Came in 3 days great support. Apple might be a little more difficult, I don't know.

thanks blokes. in answer to steeves question, i am playing my cd's in my car/pickup i now understand how music cd's are burnt and the difference between music storage and data storage (thanks Rich76) and also that i can't play a dvd in my car/pickup cd player but how do i go about reducing the size of a single large track (like a dj mix cd i.e continuous music) from the 2 hours that it is at the moment to perhaps two 1 hour tracks so that i can burn them onto two seperate cds?
thanks.

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Do a search for an MP3 splitter on google, the above link is the first I found.

nice one jack. works a dream. and its free!

thanks again