Remaining space when burning a CD

When burning a CD, how can I find out how much space / time is left on the CD in order to put more songs on the CD? Or whether the songs will overrun the capacity of a CD?
Thanks in advance.

Hi,
At the bottom of the iTunes window it will show you how many items you have, the duration & the size in MB.
Ben

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• DVD is a standard in it self. It is Standard Definition Quality = Same as on old CRT-TV sets and can not
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_ BD-Player or PlayStation3 - to be able to playback
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• How it was recorded - Tripod vs Handheld Camera. A stable picture will give a much higher quality
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• Use of Video-editor. iMovie’08 or 09 or 11 are not the tools for DVD-production. They discard every second line resulting in a close to VHS-tape quality.
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other strange formats are .avi, .wmv, .flash etc. Convert to streamingDV first
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Pro Quality (only in iDVD 08 & 09)
Best / High Quality (not always - most often not)
Best / High Performances (most often my choice before Pro Quality)
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2 = EU
unclemano wrote
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• No other programs running in BackGround e.g. Energy-Saver
• Don’t let HD spin down or be turned off (in Energy-Save)
• Move hard disks that are not to be used to Trash - To be disconnected/turned off
• Goto Spotlight and set the rest of them under Integrity (not to be scanned)
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