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Need help compressing alot of songs


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mominneedofhelp

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I have alot of songs on my HD that i need to put on cd, i dont want to end up using 250 cds doing it, is there a way i can compress all of them and put them on just a few cds???
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If they are MP3s then there is no way of compressing them further.
If you just need to put them on the CDs for back-up, you could try RARing them (doubt it will have any effect) or put them on DVDs.
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well 250 CDs of music would be about 170gigs of music, and that would be impressive, my collection is only a respectable 24.6 gigs right now it all goes on 5 and a bit dvds at the moment.
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You could try this method if you do not want to use a lossy type codec. This method should cut the file size to half of what it was. Personally i make MP3's out of many of my songs for use in my truck and cars. Other noises vehicles make interfere with the sound so a lossy file type does not bother me in a vehicle. My archives are lossless type.

http://mp3.radified.com/lossless.htm

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I have alot of songs on my HD that i need to put on cd, i dont want to end up using 250 cds doing it, is there a way i can compress all of them and put them on just a few cds???


What do you consider a lot? If you burn data cd's, just for backing up, & each song is 7mb's you can get about 100 songs on a CD. So 250 CD's would be ample for about 25,000 songs
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