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How much MB would about 50 cd's be?

That will depend on how many tracks you have in a CD and encoding quality of the MP3s.

A full CD typically holds between 650 to 700 mb.

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Yeah, but that's when you rip the WAV off of an audio CD. Compress those to mp3, you are probably going to end up with 70-100 MB

I think the question was:
<quote> How much MB would about 50 cd's be? </quote>

Not how many MP3's can you fit on a CD. There was no mention of MP3 at all.

I don't think there is any question about the more you compress a file the more you files you can fit on a CD.

Would you really waste the empty space on a CD or would you fill it to capacity?

The storage capacity of the CD does not change, it still has a maximum which is between 650-700mb. Thats why they print the capacity in MB on most CD's