I downloaded the first movement of a piano concerto; it was 10 minutes long. There were two more movements in the concerto, but after I burned the first movement onto an 80 minute CD, the other two movements “will not fit” & “insert new disk”.
Why does this happpen, & what can I do about it? Thanks in advance to all who reply.
Possibilities that I see:
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The original was in mp3, and the software expanded it to wav.
(not likely if the playing time was 10 minutes) -
The first CD was not blank.
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Your software is set to "disk-at-once’, or whatever your software calls it - this fixates the disc after recording - essentially writing a “disc ends here” mark on it.
Check the recording settings.
I don’t know if this is relevant, but a few weeks ago someone asked a similar question, and the answer was:
Did you burn it in “CD” format (as opposed to just copying the mp3 to the CD)?
If so, aparently when you burn a CD in CD format it automatically fills up the remaining space on the CD (or something like that).
Well, if 10 mins was less than 10MB, it must have been in MP3 format (or WMA or similar). CD quality music (in AIFF format) takes up approx 1MB per minute, hence you can fit just under 80 min on a 700-800MB CD. But that’s by the by.
I’d say happyheathen’s 3rd suggestion is most likely. Make sure you are using TAO (track At once) rather than DAO (disc at once) burning, otherwise the disc will be closed after the first burning session.
This disk has been finalized which means you can’t write anything else to it. You need to set the option to leave the disc open if you want to add tracks to it later.
Personally I would download all three and burn them all at once on the disc, this will be easier and will prevent the problem above by making it irrelevant. Assuming there aren’t any MORE tracks you want to burn on that disc.
The short answer has been mentioned already:
The disk was “closed” meaning that the table of contents was written, so no more data can be added.
You can sometimes leave a disc open and it will work properly, but only in newer CDROM drives.
If you were adding your music in MP3 format for replay on a computer, this is fine. However, if you were using EZCD Creator or a similar program to simulatneously decode the MP3 and burn it to disk as CD Audio, then you have to burn all the tracks at the same time. Regular audio CD players will not play a disk that has not been closed.