Data-saving problem...

[pengolodh_sc]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter, "*Dinah*" wrote:
> Question to all those who know more about computer than I do...
> 
> My Mum is getting a new hard-drive, additional to her old one,
> since that one's full. Problem is, she's going to delete
> everything that's on it beforehand and now I have lots of
> stuff that I need to safe to my laptop. My problem: the mp3s. 
> 
> They are small files compared to "normal" audio-files, but
> still my burning programme is saying I can't burn many on one
> CD because it doesn't judge by data but by the time-length of
> the files.

That is because you are trying to record an audio-CD, i.e. the same 
type of CD that you by in a record-store, and to record that type of 
CD the burning-programme has to alter the mp3-files into the format 
used on music-CDs, which is a uniform format with regards to filesize 
vs length, and which has a much larger filesize.  The capacity of the 
CD in megabyte translates into a given length in minutes, and for the 
Audio-CD fileformat this normally is 72 or 80 minutes, depending on 
type of CD-R/CD-RW.

> Now, could I burn the mp3s not as audio CD but as data CD? Or
> will that corrupt all the data and I could just as well safe
> myself all the trouble? 

[snip]

No, you should be OK recording it as a data-CD - all that does, after 
all, is copying the files as they are over to the CD, and it should 
not harm the files at all.  

Best regards
Christian Stubø