Burning across multiple discs

For playlists that will not fit on one CD, is there a way of telling how many discs (audio CD) will be required? ITunes just warns that more than one will be needed.
Mike

At the bottom of the iTunes window will be listed the size of your playlist.
ie: 130 songs, 9.3 hours, 585.3 MB
Figure that 1 meg of mp3 = 10 meg of AIFF (Audio CD).
MJ

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