Posted by gavin on 10/21/05 18:44

"Malcolm H" <noone@nowhere.com> wrote in message
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>
> "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.

Doh!!!! What a plonker - thanks, Malcolm, I'll give it a go. Easy when you
know how :-)

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