Now that I have a car that can play mp3 CDs, I thought I'd try making one with MC11. Unfortunately, MC is not cooperating.
All my files in MC are in APE format. I clicked the action window and selected "Burn a CD/DVD".
I set "Options" to burn a "data cd" with ABR 192 mp3 encoding to my "temp 1" folder.
I clicked on "burn" and then got a somewhat uninformative error that MC had a problem creating some intermediate file.
I see a partially created ISO file in my "temp 1" directory, which MC created.
I would also note that when I dragged all of the APE files onto the action window, MC indicated that I had exceeded the capacity of the cd and asked if I wanted to continue - which I did. I assumed that MC's calculation of cd capacity was based on the number and size of the APE files and not the transcoded (smaller) size of the mp3 files. I didn't think this would be a problem, as I was pretty sure that the total converted file size was less than 650MB.
If I just use MC's "convert files" option and simply convert the APE files to MP3 and tell MC to write the mp3s to "temp 1", I can then use Nero to make a playable mp3 cd with no problem. The total mp3 file size is less than 650MB, which confirms my estimate that the large group of APE format files does, indeed, compress down to an acceptable size for a 700MB MP3 CD.
So my questions are:
1. Where am I going wrong?
2. In the "Burn CD/DVD" mode, am I correct is assuming that MC's calculation of total file size occupied on the CD is based on the total number of APE files and their sizes and not the resulting total number of MP3 files and their smaller sizes? I can see how it would be a problem for MC to make the correct calculation here since it would have to first transcode all the APE files to MP3 in order to know whether too many APE files had been dropped on the action window for a 650MB CD. However, if my assumption is correct, then this is a very misleading and confusing piece of information.