MP3 Inquiry

Hi,



I know that MP3 is a type of file format. What I would like to know is what is the format where you can put, say 300-500 songs on one CD in the "complressed" format. Isnt this MP3? Hence, you cannot put this type of CD in a regular car CD player, you need to have it play whatever this format is.



1) Which format am I referring to?

2) What type of program do I need to be able to put a large number of songs on only 1 CD?

3) If it is mp3 format, why cant i put hundreds/thousands of songs on an mp3 player in this "compressed" format?





Please help me unconfuse this problem.



Thanks!

I don't know of any format where you could put thousands of songs on a CD. For 100+ songs though you can use formats like MP3, AAC (and its derivatives), Ogg, (maybe WMA) and possibly others. but I am not sure if you could play them on a car CD player (except for MP3 which I know you can). Space that each song would take up is determined by factors like length of song, bit rate used, format used and other things I can't think of. Those factors (along with the ones I can't/don't know) would determine how many songs you could fit on one CD.

WMA is better then MP3, well, smaller. AAC is great for quality (since you can change the k/bs), but the size is pretty much the same then a MP3.

Using AAC I have been able to reduce the size by almost half most of the time compared to MP3. I can't really say anything about WMA as my phone doesn't support that format and CDs I have used before have been in either CD audio or MP3.

WMA is smaller then MP3. you can fit twice as much songs on a mp3 with WMA format. AAC is slighty smaller then MP3.

Refering to?
possibly .wma or indeed .mp3

This depends on how you compress your songs. You can possibly fit 300-500 mp3 or wma onto a cd and listen to it on a compatible mp3/wma cd player (not regular, assuming you meant a non compatible mp3/wma cd player).

You will just have to step down a bit on the quality of the .mp3 or .wma files. Like instead of 128, like.. 64 which is very bad quality.