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Since the CD-R has 650 MB space and one MP3 file takes only 4-5MB, can I burn 120 MP3s on a CD-R?

April 26, 2017burn CD-R file MB mp3 takes

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Since the CD-R has 650 MB space and one MP3 file takes only 4-5MB, can I burn 120 MP3s on a CD-R?

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No, because the audio data is compressed as an MP3 file but the normal CD doesn’t compress it, the MP3 files will be decompressed before being written to CD-R. You can burn 74 minutes of audio (about 60 MB of MP3 files) on one CD.