Copying an audio CD

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So a friend asked if I could make a copy of his CD. It's a proper audio CD. Plays in the car CD player.

The total file duration after ripping is 2h51min.

In order to burn it as another audio CD, I'll need 3 CDs.

How is it that a single CD will need to be copied onto 3 CDs?

Is there a way to make it fit onto a single audio CD?
 
Ok so if you burn it as an audio CD, the software will convert it from mp3 to wav files which is way larger. That's why you need 3 Cd's.
To make it fit onto one CD, you need to keep it as mp3..
 
Yep as Smugs said, and in addition to that, some CD players have the capability to play files with codecs (and others, less so, Audio DVD's) which would explain the original disc length. Burning to the IEC 60908 .wav specification would guarantee universal compatibility but you'd need three discs.
 
You'd need to download CD burning software and then copy the CD it'll copy the CD to ram and burn it to it disk.
 
Lupus said:
You'd need to download CD burning software and then copy the CD it'll copy the CD to ram and burn it to it disk.
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They're trying to burn an audio CD from mp3 files on a CD which is the problem. It should be copied as data
 
The_Ogre said:
They're trying to burn an audio CD from mp3 files on a CD which is the problem. It should be copied as data
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Are you sure? Sounds like he's talking about an audio CD
 
The_Ogre said:
They're trying to burn an audio CD from mp3 files on a CD which is the problem. It should be copied as data
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Are they though. In the OP they just say they want to copy it which would be like for like. In other words it should retain the same formatting.
 
bwana said:
Are they though. In the OP they just say they want to copy it which would be like for like. In other words it should retain the same formatting.
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OP is confused.

In the OP they stated it's a "proper audio CD" - which means it contains .wav files. Then in post 3 they stated it's mp3's.

So what OP did, because they assumed mp3's constitute a "proper audio CD", selected Audio CD, instead of Data CD when prompted by the CD burning software.
 
The_Ogre said:
OP is confused.

In the OP they stated it's a "proper audio CD" - which means it contains .wav files. Then in post 3 they stated it's mp3's.

So what OP did, because they assumed mp3's constitute a "proper audio CD", selected Audio CD, instead of Data CD when prompted by the CD burning software.
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Agreed the OP is confused. The friend wants a copy of his own cd, so assuming the original format of the cd worked then an exact copy will too.
 
Damn, this brings back memories.

My current and previous laptops did not even have optical drives.

My daughter's school gave each parent a DVD of an outing the kids had last year. We still haven't watched it because we don't have a single device that can read optical discs.
 
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The_Ogre said:
Damn, this brings back memories.

My current and previous laptops did not even have optical drives.

My daughter's school gave each parent a DVD of an outing the kids had last year. We still haven't watched it because we don't have a single device that can read optical drives.
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Yet optical devices give a superior image and quality over streaming, physical media though a bit cumbersome is still superior. I've got an external blu-ray drive and an external dvd drive cause modern laptops don't come with them and most modern PC cases don't even have the cutaways in the front anymore.
Also don't you have a single gaming console of sorts?
 
Lupus said:
Yet optical devices give a superior image and quality over streaming, physical media though a bit cumbersome is still superior. I've got an external blu-ray drive and an external dvd drive cause modern laptops don't come with them and most modern PC cases don't even have the cutaways in the front anymore.
Also don't you have a single gaming console of sorts?
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Series S doesn't come with an optical drive :crying:
 
6spdmanual said:
Lol. Reminds me of good old PowerISO and CDBurnerXP.
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Woah, memory lane! I was using linux as my daily driver back when CD's where a thing.

From memory (most likely not 100% correct), cant test it as my laptop doesn't have a optical drive.

mount -t iso9660 -o ro /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom
mkisofs -r -o copy.iso /mnt/cdrom
cdrecord -v dev=ATA:1,0,0 copy.iso

Insane what information we remember from way back when.
 
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