Capacity: How many 33 rpm records will fit on a CD

[Whoever]

Novice here, about to convert old classical records to CD's. How many 33 rpm records will fit onto one CD.? Can anything be done to condense the sound to squeeze more on?
Any advice please?

[vehelpfulguy]

Note that while the sound on the records is uncompressed the mp3 format does compress the sound so you do lose some quality.

This may be important with classical music.

[Postdog]

If you are just making audio CD's, you will be limited to just under 1 hour 20 minutes of recording on a 700MB cd. Probably best to play safe and limit it to 1 hour 15 minutes, as some space is needed for technical stuff.

[ACtheTROLL]

at acceptable bitrates 128+ you are looking at approx 1Mb per minute

Personally I listen to books ... and I've settled at a compromise of 40Kbps mono which is good enough for me (I listen in the car ... or on planes so volume and space is as important as understandability (I get approx 30 mins from a 10Mb file (5-6 full books) into a 1Gb player

it's down (or up) to you
wav or one of the proprietary formats will take about 40Mb per 3 mintrack

but its pretty much accepted that mp3 @ 196 or 320kbps is good enough for the professional download sites

so you could say 1LP=60 min =60Mb=10LPs on a 650 = cd at very reasonable quality