Burning OGG compressed file to CD with Brasero
I converted about 3 GB of flac audio to about 165 MB of very low ogg format. However, when I want to burn it to a 700MB CD, it told me that I exceeded my limit by 3 GB.
I checked the folder and its contents it showed the audio files as 165 MB ogg format. But, still it registers on my burner as over exceeding my minute limit.
I am using k3b and brasero, and yet another burner xfburn. I used "sound converter" to convert the audio files. Yet every burner reports that I,m over exceeding my minute limit.
I don't get it. I can only assume that the converter is the problem and that the new audio info isn't being read by the burners. Reading in fact what it was and not what it is...
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As mozzbozz said, your burning program obviously creates a standard audio cd to playback on every cd player. Therefore all audio files are converted into cd audio format. You ever heard of cd quality as reference for good audio quality in comparison with compressed formats like mp3? All standard audio cds have 44,1kHz sampling rate and 16bit stereo, no matter what the source had.
So you have to burn something like an mp3 cd, but this can not be read by old players. Or you have to burn at least 4-5 standard audio cds, but then you can have excellent quality and play it on every device. (Use the uncompressed source files then!)
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