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CD Burning with compression

Apr 22, 2005 12:58PM PDT

I am looking to burn some files to CD that are slightly larger than the regular 700mb. Does anyone know of a CD burning program that can shrink or compress a file that is around 715mb down to 700? I have a good cd burning program now, but I need to shrink the file.

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on board compression utility
Apr 22, 2005 2:31PM PDT

If you have xp, to compress any file just right clik on it and move cursor untill you come to "send to" then clik on "compress zip folder" if you don't have that capability look in CNet under downloads there are free apps that do the job you require,i think it's zipnow is free for personal use,i prefer winzip tho it only comes with a 30 day trial,which means uninstall and reinstall...lol... goodluck

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I knew that, but...
Apr 23, 2005 6:29AM PDT

I know about zip files and whatever, but it doesn't reduce the file by very much at all. I've heard of DVD Shrink, where you can shrink files to put them on a dvd, anything like that for cd? Or is there a to compress a file even using winzip or power archiver?

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Tried, didn't work
Apr 24, 2005 3:27AM PDT

I tried compressing the file but it didn't reduce the size enough. The file is 715mb and it reduced it by like 6 mb.

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Review
Apr 24, 2005 4:20AM PDT
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Hmmm...Yikes....Hmmm...
Apr 25, 2005 6:25AM PDT

I read a lot of that, it sounds dangerous. It says you could cause damage to your burner. Anyway, I might try it, but is there any compression program that compresses file a lot, i.e. 5% at least.

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Never happened to me.
Apr 25, 2005 6:53AM PDT

Very odd. Must be some many year old (over 5 years old) drive that could sustain any damage.

As to compression, MPEG, MP3 files are already compressed so compression programs rarely make them smaller.

Bob

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Thanks, it worked.
Apr 26, 2005 8:20AM PDT

I burned the file, it seems to play fine off CD, and my burner does not seem to be damaged. Thanks for all the help.