Archiving my music

[Guyute]

Hi All,

I want to archive my Music CD's- I have burned them onto my HD, but they won't fit onto a regular CD as the folder is about 2 GB. I have a CD/DVD burner, so here are the questions:

Can I zip ( FWIW I use winRAR) a WMA file, or do they not handle ZIPping well? I ask because then I would assume that depending on the compression I could fit the whole archive on one CD-ROM. Howwever if they do not like compression much I could end up just creating a disk full of unreadable files...

If not, I can burn the files full-size onto a DVD. Will I be able to use this DVD in a CD player? I doubt it but I have to ask- I assume I can only use it in a DVD player...

Any ideas or suggestions are welcome.

Thanks!

[Black Hawk]

You could try compressing them and make the program split them into 700mb files or you could just seperate 700mb worth of music and burn them on seperate cd's. If it is in it's own partition, you could make a ghost that would span across multiple cd's.

[Guyute]

I'll look into that Blackhawk- thanks for the quick response. So they usually don't result in data errors I guess...that's good.

[primesuspect]

Just a note to state that zip/rar/ace - ing whatever an already compressed file will result in usually minimal-to-none compression, and sometimes even makes the file bigger. They don't work well on already compressed files.

[Black Hawk]

FWIW, imaged my music partition (6.75gb) with Acronis TrueImage (cause I was bored) and it made 10x 700mb image files.