copying files to disc

[gary]

Hi
Can anyone help, I fairly new to computing and have been
trying to download some mp3 tracks onto my hard drive so
as I can then transfer them to cd.
I have managed to copy one track to cd but can not copy
any more. I keep getting messages saying "files ready to
be written to the cd", but when I click on " write these
files to cd" I get the message " the disc in the drive is
not a writable cd or is full"
The one track i've copied to the cd is only 44 bytes.
Also in properties what is meant be size and size on disc
as these two figures are different.

 

[Ian & Lorraine]

Hi
Can anyone help, I fairly new to computing and have been
trying to download some mp3 tracks onto my hard drive so
as I can then transfer them to cd.
I have managed to copy one track to cd but can not copy
any more. I keep getting messages saying "files ready to
be written to the cd", but when I click on " write these
files to cd" I get the message " the disc in the drive is
not a writable cd or is full"
The one track i've copied to the cd is only 44 bytes.
Also in properties what is meant be size and size on disc
as these two figures are different.

What you've probably done with that one-song CD is you've burned an "audio"
CD which can be played on your home or car audio equipment. In order for an
audio CD to play on home equipment, your burning software must "close" the
disc- in other words, nothing more can be written to that CD-R. It probably
did this for you automatically. So you basically did everything just right,
but now you're stuck with a music CD with only one song on it. Not to
worry- consider it a trial run- blank CD's are cheap enough.

The music on an audio CD is in .cda format, which is a much larger file size
than the mp3 file you create it from. That's basically why you can only
fit, say, fifteen songs on an audio CD even though those fifteen songs only
take up 50MB of space as mp3 files. A 700MB/80 minute blank will hold 700MB
of mp3 files (like 120+ mp3's) if you burn a "data" disc, or 80 MINUTES
(like 15 or so songs) of music if you burn an "audio" disc.

HTH,
Ian.
(Now Playing: "Burning Down The House" - Talking Heads.)