I have Limewire and Im trying to figure out how to burn the songs on a CD as MP3. Im trying to get a ton of songs on a CD. Im not sure what Im doing wrong but Im only getting about 15 songs or so. Im thinking about just using a DVD to burn them. Would this work? and how many songs would I get on it? If anyone knows otherwise how to burn a regular CD with 100+ songs on it from Limewire, please help me out!

 

I don't use Limewire, but by the sounds of it, I'm thinking that you're burning them as regular music files, not MP3s. Someone out there has to use Limewire, right?

I burn my MP3s using Nero and with a 650 MB CD-RW burning at 192K/sec, I can about 100-120 songs on a CD.

 

First you must rip each song as an MP3. There are several free rippers out there.

 

Lime wire is P2P software not a ripper.

 

All of my songs that Im downloading are in the MP3 form, at least thats what LimeWire says. So do I need to get a ripper too? Can you recommend a good one? If I burn them from Windows Media Player does it automatically convert them to WMA? If so, can you reccomend a Burn Program that I can download for free?

BTW has anyone tried burning them on a DVD to see how many they could hold?

 

Burn the CD as a data CD not and audio CD. That will get you what you want. Once you burn it you will see the files under explorer as MP3's.

 

Any burn software will burn them in the original file format. I'm not sure what you mean by burn from windows media player? I'm guess you'll get about 2 gig of songs on a DVD. LOL
The amount you can get on CD, DVD, or any other storage format. Is going to vary by what quality each song is ripped at, length of each song, etc., etc.
2 gigs is a lot of songs. But the only thing you could listen to it on is a DVD player with mp3 capbalities or a DVD rom. SO other than backing up a collection. I don't know why you would want to put them on DVD especially since DVDR's are not cheap compared to CDR's.

 

Try a program called Free Rip..you can download it for free. If I remember right, you can choose which format to burn in. I used to use it all the time to burn mp3's.

 

Thumper, what burning software do you have on your PC for burning data files? That is all you need. Your CD/DVD burner probably came with software you can use. If you have windows XP, that also has software you can burn data cds with, The CD players that are listed as MP3 capable will play them when burned as a data CD.

 

I have a Sony Vaio and it came with a program called Sonic RecordNow! and I just tried it out and it worked flawlessly! I guess I just needed to play around and find the right program. Im not sure if this is just something on Vaios or XP but there is a program to change the format of songs on my computer.

Thanks for all the information and responses!

 

Here's how I do it.

1. Put a disk in your CD burner.
2. Copy the mp3's to the drive.
3. Once the songs are copied :
Click > EDIT > Write files to CD

4. Follow the prompts (making sure to burn as a data CD) and Windows Media player will do the rest.

That's how I do it. There are other ways.

 

i use windows media player, its nice and easy and does everything for you

 

winn3r

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Well, it looks like the problem was solved, but I'm curious...

I used Limewire a few years ago, and liked it, but when the lawsuits started, and the record companies started planting bad files I quit downloading... So, what's the downloading world like today?

 

About the same now as it was thern closer.

You just have to be careful. Whern I find a good source (someone who is sharing), I will browse that host to get files.