Audacity Forum

I want to record live preaching, convert them to mp3 and put several sermons on one cd that can be played in an automobile's cdplayer. How do I do this. I have tried several times but no success. When I want to make an "Audio" cd only one mp3 will fit but if I make a "Data" cd many mp3 files will fit. The files are around 40 megs. I have no problem making the mp3 with Audacity.

Step one is to stop making MP3 files. Music CDs have a fixed, firm, uncompressed music format and will hold 80 minutes of very high quality show -- really around 78 minutes. Full stop. No options.

The newer automobile music players can handle Music CDs just fine, but can also deal with Data CDs containing MP3 shows and, yes, those can hold all the sermons in the year 2000 if you compress the shows just right. Those aren't limited by time.

So those are the options.

There are ministries out there that post the sermons on a web site and people can make CDs of the work as they need. There are also ministries that try to make "real time" CDs of the sermon and hand them out as people are leaving. That's extraordinarily difficult and I don't know how they're doing that -- given that they have more than four people attending.

Koz