Can I burn music onto a DVD-R

It looks like I have no choice but to burn to several cd's right?

I have a rf transmitter for my Palm T|X and it plays MP3s. It's at it's outer limits for 6 hours of playtime but I know I can get 6 hours on the 4 GB memory card. An iPod on a boombox would be super.

Bob

I do this all the time with my Panasonic DVD recorder with the hard drive. Of course, I have to record all the music in REAL time thru the RCA cables, then the unit will automatically compress & burn the audio onto the disc. The new models will record onto all formats.You should have no problem recording 6 hours this way.

some converting software. I saw a free trial for acoustica mp3 software. It claims to be able to burn 200+ songs on a standard cd-r. Has anyone heard of this?

Is it capable of playing mp3? and is your burning software have mp3 burning to dvd capability? What do you use? I am not familiar with acoustica but there a few programs which can do that. So go ahead and give it a try.

I just burned some mp3 formated music to cd-r and attempted to play in my stereo and it worked. So now I will try to see if acoustica really does what it says when it claims to fit 200 songs on a cd-r.

Almost all the full versiosn of the latest burning software, will burn MPS. If you have Roxio, NERO,etc that are just 3 years old or newer ...you will have that capability. Otherwise I have also seen SW for just MP3s in Staples/Officemax for $20.

And that easiest solution but not 100% agreeable to you would be to just make a MIX CD and use repeat play. If the picnic has athletic activities....music becomes background noise anyway.

Almost most NEW car stereos play MP3s.

If you recorded MP3 files as "CD-Audio", the recording program would have de-compressed and converted the MP3s to standard audio files. That would play back in any CD player, but would have the same 74 to 80 minute limitation as regular CDs.

Recording MP3 files as "MP3 CD" or "Data CD" disks leaves the files compressed, allowing several hours of music to be stored on one disc. However, only some newer CD players that can read MP3s can play them. Since the ability to read MP3s is a great gimmick, CD players that support MP3 usually put a label bragging about it on the front.

DVD discs have much narrower tracks to pack more information on the disks, approx. 7 times more than a CD. The result is DVD players can easily read CDs, but a CD player cannot read DVDs.

Actually Yes..Sony has had this technology out for queit some time. I had a program that rips and compresses the music and and regular 80 minute CD would hold over 200 songs...obviously depending on the size of each song.. I think the name on the cd player was a sony A-trac3 which is kinda funny.

I have no idea how this happened,I was burning a disc of Gospel Music and I had a few problems with the play list and I was about to give up but before I did I hit the burn button and away things went,when it was all over I had 160 full length songs on a 80 minute CD-R disc.I hope I can make it do this again.

Thanks. I used roxio which burned about 200 songs to cd-r in mp3 format, but it would not play in my radio. It's new but does not play mp3's. I am really mad, it's 2006, you'd think all stereo's would support it.

CD players only playback audio CDs, unless it's a really new one - I haven't seen anything that does digital radio and MP3 at a sensible price.

Anyway, put the MP3 onto a flash (I-Pod or stick), then plug the earpiece into the microphone socket of your CD player using a normal audio socket to socket, switch the player to AUX. You get the playback time of the battery, so use a decent one and the audio output of a larger audio unit.

Playback time depends on the compression used but you should be able to go down to 48 bit, which is still better sampling than human hearing - have a look for a cnet course on making your own CDs, or look at the Analog Deviced DSP website for full technical stuff.

Sorry only read the caption. I should have read the whole email.

Short answer.
Rip music to files,
Use Laptop/PC to play through soundsystem

But why use DVD? Use an MP3 player

That is good info and a very good idea. I learn a lot on this forum and I appreciate everyone's input.

I bought a Sony CD player in December, model ZS-XN30. It plays MP3 disk. It works on batteries also and the sound is good. With Nero burner I can make an MP3 CD that can contain 215 or more songs. It's great. At the time, the price was $135.
You can put more songs on a CD if you use the Atrac3plus software (Sony's software). It comes with the CD player.
MP3 players are great, however 1GB will contain about 150 MP3 songs or so...
Good luck,
Ginette

Actually, there are new software out there that burn audio to DVDs. I reckon that one site said up to 50 hours of music can be burned on to a DVD. I bought Roxio's Easy Media Creator 10 and it works wonderfully with making Audio DVDs. This is an actual Audio DVD, not a data DVD. So you can play this on a regular DVD player and have hours upon hours of music.

NOT audio DVD.

The only problem I have with these audio dvd programs is that they are overprice ($40???). To tell you the truth, mp3 are getting to be so good I almost can't tell the difference, or is that the problem of my ears? hehe.

Audio = Music. What I mean by audio is that you can burn music. It would play like a cd would in a cd player.

I've done it, works on my dvd player, works on my computer. Unless I did some magic, it works. It gives you a menu to select which songs you would like to play.

Mind you, it took me a while to find a software that actually did burn music dvd's and have them work AS MUSIC DVDs when inserted into a regulard DVD player. Other software that I tried either didn't work or were VERY slow at burning. Although Roxio Easy Media Creator is $80 it was well worth it. I was tired of carrying around dozens of cd's, and now i carry around ONE dvd. Easy Media Creator doesn't just do music dvd's either. It does more like backups, cd's, and other stuff I haven't explored yet.

I was able to use iTunes and make a 10 hour long CD-R disc. It has 135 songs on it. It is pretty easy actually. First all you have to do is make sure the songs you want to burn are in mp3 format. Then go to preferences and find the "burning" tab and check the mp3 CD button instead of audio cd or Data cd/dvd. The just make sure the CD is under the 700/800 MB limit and you're good to go. And it only takes a few minutes. And the CD plays in my car stereo which is a few years old.

Since it is almost assured you did not create an AudioDVD (?!) then ripping is going to fail. Look at the DVD with explorer and see if your files are there.