Audio CD

Maybe this is a stupid q but I am just curious whether there was a way to mask music on a data CD as if it were a audio CD. With a audio CD by itself I can only fit a few songs to listen on my CD player but if it was a data CD, I could put on a lot more. The only down side about putting it as a data CD is that my CD player doesnt do random play as compared to if I do it as a audio CD which then it does play randomly so I was wondering if there was a way for a data CD to act as audio CD so I can do random play
Thanks

 

You can put mp3s on the CD instead of regular audio. Not all CD players can play MP3 CDs but if they can, you can get about 10 times the amount of music.

But you do this because the data is compressed using a lossy algorithm. That means part of the data has been thrown away.

Audio CDs are essentially regular data CDs that do not compress the data. Writing the CD as a data CD instead of an audio CD would not allow you to store any more music.

 

My music are in MP3 format. When I use the program to burn music, it gives me the option of data or audio CD. With the data I can burn the files by their size but when I burn as an audio CD, it writes them according to the time's of the song which add up to 80 and thus about 17ish songs only. With the data option, I get about 80ish but when I do the data option, the CD does not do random play which I am looking for. It only does random play when I burn as a audio CD. So what my original question was whether there was any way to use a data CD as an audio CD so that I could do random play on my CD player.

 

This has nothing to do with your computer or how you burn your CD, it is entirely to do with your CD/MP3 player. There's no good reason that your CD player, if it can play the MP3s, wouldn't also be able to do random play.

 

My Panasonic Home Theater player can do MP3 but not random...You're right, it is annoying, and AFAIK there's no good reason shuffle wasn't included in the firmware.