Brent,

Have you noticed on your CDRs they are marked like 650 Mb/74 min?? YEP!
That's it! 74 minutes on the 650 Mb disc, yeah, that's it!! And oh, just
a guess, could .cda stand for Compact Disc Audio??? I think so.

PerL

BRENT CHRISTENSEN wrote:

>
>
> A slight correction, Calle:
>
> You must convert the mp3 files to .cda files (not .wav files) in order
> for them to be played on a regular CD player.   This *used* to involve
> the intermediate step of creating .wav files and then in turn
> converting them into .cda files.  However, I now have a program called
> "MP3 CD Maker" or something like that which works quite well
> converting the mp3 to cda and burning the CD-ROM, all on the fly.  It
> is even easy to use, and was about $30 as I recall.  I can p-mail
> details if anyone is interested.
>
> One note - the .cda files are almost five times the size of a typical
> mp3 file, so you can only store about 100 minutes of audio on a 650 MB
> CD-ROM (as apposed to about 600 minutes of mp3 audio)
>
> Brent Christensen
> '89 GL Syncro Westy
> Santa Barbara, CA
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM]On
> Behalf
> > Of Calle Fallberg
> > Sent: Monday, March 20, 2000 11:26 PM
> > To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> > Subject: Re: Suggestions on how to fasten a laptop while driving?
> >
> >
> > Hi David !
> >
> > Why bother ??
> > Get a CD burner, convert your Mp3�s to .wav files and burn �m!
> > Works great for me, and as a bonus I�m able to play - or
> > share - my music everywhere where there is a CD player,
> > and use the big buck CD player/speakers in the Vanagon !
> > Not to mention the amount of free space I created on my PC
> > when all the music, pictures, saved files and "temporarily
> > unused" files (400Mb of fonts, wiringdiagrams, screensavers
> > and other Vanagon related "must have" ) were removed :-)
> >
> > Calle Fallberg
> > -88 Vanagon
> > Mullhyttan , Sweden
> >