[edwardayres]

Is there a way to take mp3 files on a cd and get them to play on portable home cd player? I tried using iTunes to convert them to AIFF but the resulting cd does not play on my home player. It's quite a bit of material and needs to fit on one cd.

[Shugoalie]

need a little more info. What make and model CD player are u using? Older ones probably won't play mp3s. How many songs are we talking about on 1 cd??

[edwardayres]

Thanks for replying to my post. There is about 850 MB of data when in the AIFF format, too big for one disc. I tried playing the AIFF files on a Bose Soundwave radio with CD and that doesn't work. Ultimately, the CD will go into another portable model; I don't know the model. The person I'm doing this for purchased material on a CD with mp3 files. She is a massage therapist and wants to be able to play the music through a tabletop portable cd player so she doesn't have drag the message table over to the computer and hook up headphones. She doesn't have external speakers for the computer. Is there any way to convert the mp3 files to another format that will work in a portable desktop player and also fit on one disk?

[Jon Seff]

If the CD player only plays standard audio CDs, you can use iTunes to burn an audio CD of either 72 minutes or 80 minutes of music depending on the type of blank CD you're using...it doesn't matter how big the AIFFs are, just the total time of the files.

[Nobody]

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.it doesn't matter how big the AIFFs are, just the total time of the files.

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I would have thought that larger the file, longer the play time and vice versa...

[Jon Seff]

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.it doesn't matter how big the AIFFs are, just the total time of the files.

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I would have thought that larger the file, longer the play time and vice versa...

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True, but you can fit more than 700MB of AIFFs files on a 700MB audio CD, as long as the total time is less than 80 minutes.

[albloom]

Since MP3 takes up about a tenth the size of AIFF (for
normal audio CDs), it can be a bother. I converted a
friend's MP3 CD to ten audio CDs a while back. Just
drag the MP3s into a new iTunes playlist. It'll tell
you that you have X hours in the list. If X > 1.2 on
an 80-min CD, Make a new playlist and copy songs
to it so that it stays below 1.2 hr. Delete those
songs from the original playlist. Keep at it until
all playlists are less than 1.2 hr.
Takes longer to describe than to do.

[edwardayres]

But Mp3 files will only play on an Mp3 compatible player, right? I'm trying to create a standard audio cd.

[albloom]

All my music is in MP3 format in the iTunes library, no
matter where it came from and in what format. Just to
save space. They all burn quite nicely in audio CD format.
It's the default in iTunes. Automagically converted on
the fly.
To verify, go to iTunes Prefs/Advanced/Burning and see
that the Disc Format is Audio CD.
Try it.