you must create a data CD rather than an audio cd.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ron Canazzi" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, January 24, 2011 6:39 PM
Subject: Re: MP3 question


> Hi Harvey,
>
> If you are sure that the video has been deleted, then the MP3 even at the
> highest rate of 320 KBPS should easily fit onto a CD which is usually 
> about
> 700 MB in data format.  The average movie of about 2 hours in audio form
> only at 320 KBPS bit rate shouldn't be any larger than about 200 to 300 MB
> in size--about 1/3 to 1/2 of the space of a data CD. I am wondering if you
> are sure you have the file stripped of its video or not.  With the kind of
> error you are getting (not enough free space) I would think that the video
> has not been removed.  The file would then be many times greater in size 
> and
> thus would not fit on the standard data format CD.
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Harvey Heagy" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Monday, January 24, 2011 4:55 PM
> Subject: MP3 question
>
>
> I have downloaded an MP3 file of a described version of, "The Sound of
> Music," which I hope to put on a CD for a friend of mine.  Bare in mind 
> this
> is an MP3 file with no video.  I would think even with a file as long as
> that movie is that a standard CD should hold it, but when I use Roxio I 
> keep
> getting the message that the disc does not have enough space to contain 
> the
> file.  I realize that in a standard CD format the disc would not be nearly
> long enough, but if you can put multiple albums on one disc in an MP3 
> format
> I think one disc should hold this file.  Windows Media Player does not 
> give
> you the option of leaving the file as an MP3 file.  Does anyone have any
> software suggestions or any other helpful hints as to how I might 
> accomplish
> this, or even whether or not it can be done since I know comparatively
> little about digital recording.  Thanks and 73.
> Harvey