Yes, it can be done. But it's not likely something you would want to do.
A CD carries 80 minutes of stereo sound. But stereo means there are two channels. If you wanted to get creative, you could encode half of your collection as mono in one channel, and half the collection as mono in the other channel. Then, in your CD player, pan all the way left to listen to one channel, and all the way right to listen to the other channel.
This is, of course, quite complicated. I presume you will want to have each file as a separate track, so you'll need to match up similar length tracks, and likely put up with some silence one side as the song on the other channel is completing. You might be able to play around with having more than one track per song/file, if you use the "disk at once" option in your CD burner to eliminate any gap between the tracks.
There won't be any software to help you do this, either. You'll just have to use an audio editor to make the tracks mono, and then put them together in a single file per track, and then burn that file as audio to your disk.
So, while it technically can be done, it is complicated to do and produces an inferior result that has only mono sound and requires a CD-player with panning controls (or disconnecting a speaker).
Your best bet is to see if an MP3 CD (i.e. just burn the MP3s as files, rather than as audio) works on your player, or to just make two CDs.
10Writing mp3s as decoded to CDDA is a huge waste, and will also make them sound even worse (but not much) because the decoded sound must be quantized to 16 bit. – Display Name – 2017-08-09T10:56:30.233
8and if you simply write the files, it won't be an audio CD. – Display Name – 2017-08-09T10:57:35.477
7@SargeBorsch: And what exactly did you think happens in any media player reading an MP3? MP3 started out as a 44.1 kHz 16 bits codec, which not coincidentally matches the earlier CDDA specifications. And while MP3 supports a higher sample rate (48 kHz), sample depth is always 16 bits. – MSalters – 2017-08-09T12:06:51.010
59Nice trick, in order not to ask a duplicate question you just ask a question that was relevant 20 years ago! – Hans Janssen – 2017-08-09T12:09:11.590
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See also Why do 700 MB blank discs only fit what iTunes says is about 150 MB of songs?
– MSalters – 2017-08-09T12:20:07.5302@MSalters mp3 is not 16 bit, nor 24 or any other value, and it never was. because it's not a PCM based codec. the resolution of resulting PCM samples is up to the decoder implementation. And internally the format doesn't mandate truncation to 16 bit anywhere; LAME is one example of implementation which doesn't round to 16 bit at any stage. – Display Name – 2017-08-09T13:52:08.433
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This would be better answered over at Retro Computing...
– JPhi1618 – 2017-08-09T13:55:54.72311
Possible duplicate of Writing ~ 630 MBs of MP3 to a Regular Audio CD
– Dmitry Grigoryev – 2017-08-09T14:03:01.260@SargeBorsch: The MP3 decoding standard ends with a Synthesis Polyphase Filterbank which produces 16 bits sample depth. Sure, you can stuff those values in a 32 bits float, but the MP decoding algorithm simply doesn't produce sensible values for the 17th bit. Note that LAME is an encoder, and encoders can run non-standard algorithms in their decision which bits to drop on encoding. – MSalters – 2017-08-09T14:11:32.703
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@CL. If you're only concerned with storing the data necessary to build your own dinosaur, you probably can store it on a 700 MB disc. If you trust the Jurassic Park wiki quoting a paper from Nature, convert from picograms to base pair count, and store store each base pair as 2 bits, T. Rex would need about 457 MB to store it's DNA sequence.
– Engineer Toast – 2017-08-09T18:57:06.607Fav only because of the funny replies – TwentyCharMax – 2017-08-09T23:11:02.333
Possible duplicate of https://superuser.com/questions/1239346/can-i-write-a-dinosaur-onto-a-cd?noredirect=1&lq=1
– ESR – 2017-08-10T01:29:42.727Asked yesterday?? Gee wiz this question exploded fast! – Clonkex – 2017-08-11T04:18:15.970
1@EdmundReed How the actual heck is that a duplicate? That question has 0 relevance to this question; it's completely and utterly unrelated. – Clonkex – 2017-08-11T04:20:51.693
3The amusing thing is that the
compact-disc
tag description very nearly answers this question on its own :P – Clonkex – 2017-08-11T04:22:39.7872@JPhi1618: I know I left a joke to the contrary a couple days ago but this isn't really "retro computing"... the i7, Win8 laptop from 4 years ago I'm typing this on still has a CD drive and I still drive a car that takes audio CDs and not MP3 CDs. – user541686 – 2017-08-11T10:25:53.233
@SargeBorsch How is decoding MP3 to CDDA more of "a huge waste" than replacing a perfectly working stereo system that does not accept data CDs or SD cards with MP3 files with one that does? – Damian Yerrick – 2017-08-15T15:59:57.853
@Geliormth I think this question is MORE RELEVANT today than it was 20 years ago. 20 years, people were not using PCs to burn their OWN CDs to the extent they are today. I have burned probably about 10 or 15 CDs, some with music I already had, some different, in the past several months. I have always burned the traditional way because my stereo systems obviously does not understand MP3s. It's older than I am, but I've never had a problem with it and intended to keep using it. Most GOOD CD players won't recognize MP3s; therefore, I advise you always burn the old way, not the Data route. – InterLinked – 2017-08-15T19:18:44.743
@InterLinked I didn't say music CD's are not used anymore today. Just that, contrary to 20 years ago, everything you want to know about them is available on dozens of places on the internet already ;) – Hans Janssen – 2017-08-16T09:30:25.597
you can use pc softwares like Nero Express to make audio CDs with 700MB audio file – Hossain Khademian – 2017-08-27T17:41:01.807