Not understanding how the owners manual says you can get up to 150 songs , about 10 hours of music on one cd.

The best I have been able to get 58 songs, what gives? I do have the bit rate set to highest.

How far down the bit scale can I go without loosing noticable quality?

 

On the bike I personally see/hear no difference at 128bit rate as I do at 192bit or higher.....at home yes but on the bike nah...

 

In order to get that many songs on your CD you'll have to record them as MP-3's.

Mike

 

[quote=SG Mike;8567274]In order to get that many songs on your CD you'll have to record them as MP-3's.

When I tried that a few times the songs would always go into the library burn list and break the list up into 18 songs give or take. And list each break as the next disk, dont know how to get around that. The cd is only 80 minutes wouldnt the mp3's have to be compressed?


Think I will give that a try, I should be able to get more songs on the disk that way.

 

What are you using for a program? I use windows media player, clicking on lower portion of "burn" tab will bring out a box where you can pick "data".

 

+1 on that....make sure you are not buring a music CD and just transfer them as a data file so it just copies the MP3 over like any other data file. If you have a 600MB CD that would be 150 files at an average of 4MB per file.

 

I have windows 7 and did what Geezer said up in the upper right hand corner when you click on burn it will bring up a window that allows you to burn a data cd, drag and drop your songs to your burn list and burn. I made one the other day and got 159 songs on it.

 

'Scuse me gentlemen, if I may? - this is absolutely my area of expertise.

If you are using Windows Media Player to organise the music on your computer, the first thing to do is to immediately stop using it. If you've not already done so, I strongly suggest that you download a copy of iTunes (it's free) and use that instead. The options for burning different types of disc are obvious and easy to select. It will even scan you hard drive and automatically add music files to it's library so you don't have to. As digital jukeboxes go, it is far-and-away the best and smacks WMP into a cocked hat. Also, iTunes uses the AAC format as a default. AAC is an evolution of the MP3 format - it sounds superior (although that tends to depend on what circumstances you hear them under) and is certainly more space efficient than MP3. iTunes will also play back and (if you prefer) encode MP3s with no problem at all.

So - data discs. A data disc is basically a CD (or DVD) with the unaltered music files on it instead of the uncompressed ones like you get on a "traditional" CD. That's why a "traditional" CD can only carry about 74 minutes of music - the files are uncompressed.

The files you're trying to burn are likely to be in the MP3 format if you've ripped them from regular music CDs onto your computer. If you have a player that will read one, they're a good way to have a shedload of songs on a single disc although the exact amount will vary according to the size of the individual files (and by extension, the method they were encoded with. Some formats are more space-efficient than others).

For most purposes, a bit-rate of higher than 128 is un-necessary. The detectable difference in sound quality is very, very minimal unless you have bat-like hearing or a staggeringly expensive hi-fi system. And if you're going to be playing them through a stereo on a motorcycle there's just no point in making it higher than 128-bit. The added increase in file size is another reason not to bother increasing the bit rate.

 

I only had to read this far to know this guy does know what he is talking about.