more tracks onto a CD

[FNG212]

For christmas I was given the Lord of the Rings complete Audio books set (46 CDs!) as read by Rob Inglis. Its an awesome present as I am on the road often and can listen in my car. I backed up the CDs to my HTPC and trying to burn a copy so I don't have to bring the originals in the car with me and worry about getting scratched and lost (46 CDs!).

Each track is roughly 30-60 Megs. I can fit each of the Books (each half of all three books) onto 1 CD calculated by data. The data only adds to 675Megs or so for each half. But Windows Media burner will only allow 70min per CD which means 1 maybe 2 tracks. Is there anyway to get them all onto the CD and play in my car's CD player. This might be the motivation to get a car stereo deck that has an SD card MP3 player or mp3 plug-in jack. Was really hoping to just be able to find a different format or something to burn the CDs.

link in case anyone else is interested: http://www.amazon.com/Lord-Rings-Trilogy-Gift-Set/dp/1402516274/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1293661974&sr=8-1

Thanks!

 

[JohnA]

I would assume that if you ripped them to mp3 that would save you on space.

 

[sholling]

I rip my audiobooks to 64bit MP3. In fact I have two SanDisk Sansa Fuse MP3 players that I use exclusively for audiobooks (2 so I can have 2 books going) and they work great. The Fuse works great because it remembers where you left off. The key is tagging the files properly so that the player understands the playback order.

 

[zhimbo]

I would assume that if you ripped them to mp3 that would save you on space.

That's assuming the car CD player reads mp3 files, of course...

 

[sholling]

That's assuming the car CD player reads mp3 files, of course...

It also leaves the problem of taking the book in the house. I had a 4-5 hour round trip commute to and from work for several months and I'd find myself sitting in the garage until a chapter ended. And if you take it out of the CD player you spend way too much time finding where it left off. That's why I say rough it with an MP3 player and cheap but comfortable headphones.