Why Can't Disks Take More Than 80 Minutes Audio???

Discussion in 'Audio' started by modempsey, Jan 6, 2004.

  1. modempsey

    modempsey Guest

    I use CD-R 80min/700mb disks. I understand that you can only burn 80min audio or 700mb data.

    When using Microsoft Media 9.0 (*.wma files), 80 minutes of music equates approximately to about 150mb.
    If this is the case is there any reason why disks can't take more audio files greater than 80 minutes.

    Is much of the disk unused? Do disks exist that take substantially more that 80 minutes of audio???
     
  2. vurbal

    vurbal Administrator Staff Member

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    The audio number is specifically CD audio. WMA files are considered data, not audio, so you can put the normal 700MB of files on your CD.
     

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