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Burn an MP3 CD with Folders
Posted by Gina Trapani at 9:00 AM on January 29, 2008
If your car CD player or media centre can play and navigate MP3 CDs by folder, using iTunes you can burn your tracks in album-specific folders automatically. (MP3 CDs have the songs burned on them as files, not audio, and as such can fit a whole lot more music than a regular audio CD.) The Internet Duct Tape blog explains the iTunes tip: the trick is to sort the playlist by album first before you burn.
Tags: cd | itunes | itunes tip | mp3
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yardameus
Posted 11:36 AM 29/1/08
It's a lot less hassle to have MP3 cds than an mp3 player . (No need to charge batteries, have crap laying around besides a cd case) I use Roxio, but you can even just use XP and just make a data cd copying what folders you want to the cd.
yardameus
Woodsyx
Posted 11:36 AM 29/1/08
Or you can use one of thosr FM transmitters for your ipod. Who actually burns music onto CD's now that you can just use an ipod.
Woodsyx
pixelfreak
Posted 11:36 AM 29/1/08
This would be great but my car just reads version 1.0 ID3 tags so I duplicate my songs, move them to v1.0, burn them and delete them
:-/
pixelfreak
privatejoker75
Posted 11:36 AM 29/1/08
Or just use Nero
privatejoker75
III
Posted 12:36 PM 29/1/08
My old head unit was Mp3 CD, and I miss it to this day (3 yrs gone). I have an ipod w/ tape adapter now, and long for the ease of those cd's. Digging through 12,000 songs on my 60g Video is much more cumbersome than simply having 5 or 10 mp3-cd's ready to go.
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shibathedog
Posted 12:36 PM 29/1/08
People who want to do anything possible to avoid the crap audio quality of an FM transmitter. Using a headphone jack isn't fantastic either, but its far better than that. (Try getting one of those cords that connects to the bottom of your iPod instead of the headphone jack and gives it RCA out, I'd aim for that or a better form of output on any portable device)
The FM Transmitter in the portables world is the equivalent of the RF Adapter in the game console world.
I use MP3 CDs a lot actually in my car, its cheap, I can fit a lot of songs, and throw them away when I get sick of them. I can put together some pretty good mixes with all the space too. (Sometimes entire discographies, or at least fitting those big 2+ CD sets onto once disc is nice)
shibathedog
iceman7
Posted 7:36 PM 29/1/08
a little off subject but does anyone know an easy way to burn a cd using a playlist? (I don't want to go down the iTunes route)
iceman7
waffles
Posted 6:37 AM 30/1/08
Winamp. Pro burns faster. Free still burns. Can't get the track names to show up on the stereo though as far as I know.
waffles
engtech
Posted 8:38 AM 30/1/08
@iceman7: as Waffles said, use WinAmp or create a normal data CD.
I'm only using iTunes because that's where I keep my MP3 library and it's actually easier for me to find files in iTunes than using the file explorer.
engtech
engtech
Posted 8:38 AM 30/1/08
@pixelfreak: The Godfather will let you easy copy your ID3 2.0 tags to ID3 1.0 tags in batch mode.
[users.forthnet.gr]
engtech
20SubZero
Posted 8:38 AM 30/1/08
I've got a built-in harddrive in my car, much easier.
20SubZero
strangefate
Posted 8:38 AM 30/1/08
You can just sort it by artist and it will burn in artist folders. I've been doing this for about 3 years now...kind of thought everyone knew. No need to do the extra clicking. Sort by artist and it will automatically create the folders. Not like the author says (all mp3s in one folder)
strangefate