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[KingSparta]

I Have a 700 Meg Disk I Select 699 Megs, Then I Go To Burn And MJ Tells Me I Am Over.

Burn Is Set To "80 Mins" That Should Be 700 Megs

I Needed To Delete Files Down To 680 Megs For MJ To Say Ok At 100%

Is It MJ Or Me?

[JohnT]

This is because MJ always writes "multi-session" disks which have 23MB of overhead consisting of the lead-out for the current session and the lead-in for a potential session added in the future. An 80 minute disk can hold 703MB but subtracting the 23MB you get 680MB.

[KingSparta]

thats what I thought but maybe include the overhead somehow when selecting to burn?

maybe an Info Box In The Bottom "Burn Size: Blaa Blaa"

[JohnT]

Sounds like a good idea; each time you send files to the burner, it tells you where you're at on capacity.

- John T.

[sekim]

There's no way to make this optional?

[Charlemagne 8]

How much overhead is on a CD burn ... 80 mins. - OH = ?

[sekim]

CVIII,

Are you talking time-wise? That would depend on bitrates.

Low Bitrates = Lots more music per CD.

High Bitrates = A whole lot less music per CD.

[Charlemagne 8]

I don't mean MP3's, I mean CDA's.

[KingSparta]

I was more refering to have it on the bottom info bar.

maybe in settings where you can have a setting for display real size, and display burn size to take in account the overhead.

this way if your going to be burning you can select this option (maybe a combo box) and then set it back when your done.

it would make it easyer when selecting files to burn.

[JohnT]

KingSparta-
 Yes that was the way I envisioned it.

>>How much overhead is on a CD burn ... 80 mins. - OH = ?

There isn't any overhead on an audio (CDA file) burn. You can get 80 minutes of music on an 80 minute CD.
Oops, I forgot about the 2 second gap between tracks. If that is checked MJ takes that into account as overhead, but it doesn't add up to much (10 tracks adds 18 seconds of OH).