burning mp3's help
 

Ok I saw on here you can burn mp3's to a cd and get hundreds of songs on one cd, is that correct? If so how, I have easy cd creator 4 deluxe and everytime i burn a cd it just has 19 or songs on it before it fills up i am guessing i am burning it the wrong way? any help appreciated?

The reason you can only fit 19 songs on the cd is because they are no longer mp3s. EZ CD Creator converts mp3s to wav files (what traditional cd players can read) before it burns them. WAV files are much larger and only 76 to 80 minutes of music can be put on a cd. If your receiver has the ablility to play mp3s you need to create a data cd and just add all the mp3s to the file list until it fills up. A regular CD player (ie. factory head unit) cannot play mp3 files, so don't waste your time. If you want this ability you will have to purchase a new head unit. Hope this helps.

Exactamundo, to get a buttload on one cd, you have to create it as a data cd. You can then take them to another computer or an mp3 player (that has already been mentioned) and use them, but as for 'listenable' (is that a word?) audio, 74 to 80 minutes, roughly.

thanks
 

Yeah I have a pioneer -7400mp which plays mp3's so that is why i was asking ...i will give it a try...thanks

And in case you didn't know, when you convert songs to the mp3 format, you can usually adjust the sampling rate (I think thats the right term). Depending on the rate you choose, the songs/files will be bigger or smaller in size. However, adjusting the rate to make the size of the file smaller, decreases the quality of the music.

The easiest software I've used to burn discs is Musicmatch Jukebox. It is basically click and drag.

I normally download MP3's in the 128-160 sampling rate. That gives a CD quality sound. They are correct, don't convert them to wav's, leave them as MP3's. Then you'll get 150ish songs per CD.
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I have a Pioneer DEH-7400MP also...everytime I burn an MP3 disk (as data) I get an Error-30 from the HU. I still haven't figured it out, but then again I haven't tried either.