jonesbeach10 wrote:OK- question for those that really know what they are doing with this stuff. What exactly does a song's MB mean and how is it determined? I know what it means, but how do they get it?
I ask this because I am trying to download and burn the show from Mohegan Sun 2005 for a friend who was at the show. It's a basic 27 song set, about 2 hour and 10 minutes worth of music (excluding intermission, time b/w encores, etc.). However, the entire set's MB is something like 87 and 92 MB. How does this translate onto a blank CD with 700 MB on it? And it seems that it is not based on length either. For example, Coconut Telegraph (3:39) from Live in Hawaii is 4.2 MB, while SOASOAS (3:39) from Mohegan Sun 2005 is 5.1 MB. If it is the same length, shouldn't it be the same MB?
Thanks and PHINZ UP!!!
First of all,
When making a music cd(one that you can play in a normal cd player), it will fit based on time. Most cds can hold 80 minutes of music playable in a cd player, which explains why the live albums like Live in Hawaii, Manfield, Fenway, and Vegas come in 2 cd sets. MB or megabytes, is the size of the file. You can look at it as quality. The higher the mb, the closer the quality is to the source of the music. I think that the mohengan sun concert was recorded from Sirius. To keep a good quality that's close to the original, the creater saved the file as high quality. The mohengan sun copy is still compressed, and not exactly the same quality as the original (the only way you can do this is with a lossless format, like .flac in the Toronto show-these files are really big). Now about the Hawaii Cd:
When you copy the files to your computers hard drive, they'd be very big, so whatever program you used to copy the tracks (window media player, itunes, or musicmatch) compressed them, so you lost some quality and some mb size, but that probably isn't very noticable.
You can burn a data or mp3 cd and it will be based on MBs, not minutes, but will not play in a cd player. If you need to make the size on MBs smaller, you can compress the files, just like what was done to the cd. Itunes, and I think total recorder can easily do this.
Hope this helps. Let me know if you have any questions.