Posted by Malcolm H on 10/21/05 18:23

"gavin" <no-one@home.co.uk> wrote in message
news:djbajs$ob7$1@newsg2.svr.pol.co.uk...
> I've got a folder on my hard drive which has 172 mp3s in it - total size
> 738MB. I thought I should be able to burn the whole contents of that
folder
> onto an 800MB CD-R but when I attempt to do this CDBurner XP Pro tells me
> that I have 6728MB of data!!!! I have also tried this process using Nero
but
> that only allows me to burn 22 of the mp3s in the folder onto a CD! Are
they
> both de-compressing the mp3s when they burn - that's what it looks like to
> me.
>
>
> Any help would be appreciated.

Are you trying to burn them as a Audio CD? If so the mp3 files will be
decompressed. If you want to get all the mp3 files on the CD you must burn
the CD as DATA not AUDIO.

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