Help with voice recording burning on CD

the K spacegir · 01-15-06, 12:37 PM

Hello there,

I record lectures on my X50 using Note and typically take about 5 mb for 1 hour lecture. I'm having trouble with burning these lectures on CDs. A typical CD can hold over 700MB of data, but it limited to just 120 min?

If the file is actually only 5 mb but is stretched out over an hour or more, am I stuck with putting one lecture on on CD even thought it actually is 5 mb? I would like to know how I can put several hours of lecture on one CD. Note records the files as 'MP3' so that adds to my confusion.

- how do I record lectures and save them on CDs so I can listen to it in my car? (I could use the Axim itself to listen, but battery is the issue) It would be nice to be able to listen to these lectures without using the Axim.

Please help.

Thanks

Howard2k · 01-15-06, 12:45 PM

You have two options:

1 - Burn as a data file to CD
2 - Burn as an audio file to CD

1 - Burn as a data file - this is where the actual 5MB MP3 file is placed on the CD. Unless your car stereo can play MP3 files you will not be able to play it from the CD. However - you are using up 5MB of your 700MB capacity.

2 - Burn as an audio file - this is where the actual audio content is placed on the CD. So 60 minutes from a 80 minute capacity CD leave you with 20 minutes left.

SO the first thing I would check was whether my car stereo can play native MP3.

the K spacegir · 01-15-06, 01:14 PM

Sorry, I should have said car doesn't play MP3. If it did, I could simply burn it as MP3 file, which would take just 5mb of the 700 or so MB on a typical CD, which means I could put close to 100 lectures. But since I don't have an MP3 capable radio, as it is, one whole lecture would take an entire CD, even thought the actual file is only 5 mb. Any other ideas?

Quote:

Originally Posted by Howard2k

You have two options:

1 - Burn as a data file to CD
2 - Burn as an audio file to CD

1 - Burn as a data file - this is where the actual 5MB MP3 file is placed on the CD. Unless your car stereo can play MP3 files you will not be able to play it from the CD. However - you are using up 5MB of your 700MB capacity.

2 - Burn as an audio file - this is where the actual audio content is placed on the CD. So 60 minutes from a 80 minute capacity CD leave you with 20 minutes left.

SO the first thing I would check was whether my car stereo can play native MP3.

hisse · 01-15-06, 01:50 PM

you could leave them on your axim and get a cheap radio broadcast adapter to play them through your car stereo, but I can't think of anything else for a cd unless you get a mp3 capable cd walkman(like 24.99 at bestbuy) and a radio thing if you really want to use cd's instead of your axim.