What's the highest quality compression method?

I've got several .flac files which total just over 2GB. I'd like to get them onto two 700MB CDs. My CD player is 15 years old, plays .aiff files but I've no idea what other formats. I've got xAct if that helps.
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Sorry, unless your CD-Player can play MP3-CDs (which it can't because 15 years ago that was unheard of), you'll need much more CDs. It will only accept CD-Audio, which is roughly twice the size of FLAC, as that is already redundancy coded, which CD-Audio does not support. So you'll probably need about 6 CDs to be able to play them in your CD-Player.
Hope this helps.

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