Burning MP3 CD For Car

Ellie

Hiya lovely MSE people.

Being a total techiepleb i have a question for you clever people.

I was asked to burn a cd of MP3's for a car cd player. I burnt it successfully but all the albums are mixed up whereby it plays all tracks with 01 in title first then all track 2's etc.

Im presuming I need to rename all the files I want to burn... is it best just to take out ALL track numbers and list as Artist then track title??

Id be greatful if anyone could help me out here plz. (told u I was thick!)

Thanx alot for any advise given!

Ellie x

IcyEars

You could either take out all the track numbers and then just use the names but I have come across come MP3 CD Players that have to have a track number. You could try taking the numbers out and if it works, great. The other alternative would be to renumber the tracks in the order you want to play them (i.e. you only have 1 track 1, 1 track 2, etc). One thing to watch out for with this though is that some players will only play track 1-99. If you play around with the numbers, you should be able to find something that works (i.e. have all tracks by one artist as track 1, the next artist, as 2, etc).

One other trick whilst you are playing is to use a rewritable CD to record onto. This way, you are not wasting CD's and you can play as much as you want until you are happy with the results. Only then, do you burn it to a writable CD.

Ellie

IcyEars wrote:

You could either take out all the track numbers and then just use the names but I have come across come MP3 CD Players that have to have a track number. You could try taking the numbers out and if it works, great. The other alternative would be to renumber the tracks in the order you want to play them (i.e. you only have 1 track 1, 1 track 2, etc). One thing to watch out for with this though is that some players will only play track 1-99. If you play around with the numbers, you should be able to find something that works (i.e. have all tracks by one artist as track 1, the next artist, as 2, etc).

One other trick whilst you are playing is to use a rewritable CD to record onto. This way, you are not wasting CD's and you can play as much as you want until you are happy with the results. Only then, do you burn it to a writable CD.

Excellent thanx ill give that a go! its not something i can test myself so ill see how i get on!
Thanx for that!

ABH_3

Ellie wrote:

Hiya lovely MSE people.

Being a total techiepleb i have a question for you clever people.

I was asked to burn a cd of MP3's for a car cd player. I burnt it successfully but all the albums are mixed up whereby it plays all tracks with 01 in title first then all track 2's etc.

Im presuming I need to rename all the files I want to burn... is it best just to take out ALL track numbers and list as Artist then track title??

Id be greatful if anyone could help me out here plz. (told u I was thick!)

Thanx alot for any advise given!

Ellie x

Hmm, I can't help thinking it looks like your having a difficult day. I hope things have improved for you by the time you read this.

When I last did this, I just opened Windows Explorer\File Manager, went to the folder where the mp3 files were located. Then Right-Clicked each in turn, chose Rename and numbered them "01 xxxx", "02 xxxx" etc "01" of course was the track I wanted to play first obviously. Don't forget to leave a space between the last number and the title ie: "track number (space) track title" as otherwise Windows treats it as one complete track title as opposed to a numeric value.

Then opened Nero Burning Rom or whatever application you are using, and imported the tracks. If they are out of order once imported into whatever your chosen application is. Just click the Colum Header and they will be reordered, press it again untill it is in an order you want. Hit Burn and you are away.

Any more help post back, but on the whole it isn't difficult. If you do require any more specific help, it may help to tell the potential readers which program you are using to burn the cd's with. As it may have a feature to solve the problem for you. For instance, in Nero Burning Rom, it allows you to choose the order by dragging and dropping the tracks into the required order, then burning them how you want them. You may wish to try that with whatever you are using.

HTH

Woby_Tide

if you are burning albums then just burn the CD with the album folders, teh car MP3 player should then treat each folder as an album then play the tracks in order i.e. 1/2/3/4, you can then either cycle through tracks on the album or cycle through the folders to choose the relevant album

i.e. in explorer your CD should just show folders

Album1
Album2
Album3
Album4

double clicking each folder will give

01 Track1
02 Track2
03 Track3

I know our MP3 player can then play in different modes i.e. random from throught the CD, random within the folder or just play the albums in order

Ellie

Woby_Tide wrote:

if you are burning albums then just burn the CD with the album folders, teh car MP3 player should then treat each folder as an album then play the tracks in order i.e. 1/2/3/4, you can then either cycle through tracks on the album or cycle through the folders to choose the relevant album

i.e. in explorer your CD should just show folders

Album1
Album2
Album3
Album4

double clicking each folder will give

01 Track1
02 Track2
03 Track3

I know our MP3 player can then play in different modes i.e. random from throught the CD, random within the folder or just play the albums in order

Thanx I can see what you are saying here but noticed there is other stuff like album covers in each folder. I spose I could manually take those out though

Ellie

ABH wrote:

Hmm, I can't help thinking it looks like your having a difficult day. I hope things have improved for you by the time you read this.

When I last did this, I just opened Windows Explorer\File Manager, went to the folder where the mp3 files were located. Then Right-Clicked each in turn, chose Rename and numbered them "01 xxxx", "02 xxxx" etc "01" of course was the track I wanted to play first obviously. Don't forget to leave a space between the last number and the title ie: "track number (space) track title" as otherwise Windows treats it as one complete track title as opposed to a numeric value.

Then opened Nero Burning Rom or whatever application you are using, and imported the tracks. If they are out of order once imported into whatever your chosen application is. Just click the Colum Header and they will be reordered, press it again untill it is in an order you want. Hit Burn and you are away.

Any more help post back, but on the whole it isn't difficult. If you do require any more specific help, it may help to tell the potential readers which program you are using to burn the cd's with. As it may have a feature to solve the problem for you. For instance, in Nero Burning Rom, it allows you to choose the order by dragging and dropping the tracks into the required order, then burning them how you want them. You may wish to try that with whatever you are using.

HTH

It is Nero im using yes! ill have a go and lket u know how it goes! thanx

Ellie

ABH wrote:

Hmm, I can't help thinking it looks like your having a difficult day. I hope things have improved for you by the time you read this.

When I last did this, I just opened Windows Explorer\File Manager, went to the folder where the mp3 files were located. Then Right-Clicked each in turn, chose Rename and numbered them "01 xxxx", "02 xxxx" etc "01" of course was the track I wanted to play first obviously. Don't forget to leave a space between the last number and the title ie: "track number (space) track title" as otherwise Windows treats it as one complete track title as opposed to a numeric value.

Then opened Nero Burning Rom or whatever application you are using, and imported the tracks. If they are out of order once imported into whatever your chosen application is. Just click the Colum Header and they will be reordered, press it again untill it is in an order you want. Hit Burn and you are away.

Any more help post back, but on the whole it isn't difficult. If you do require any more specific help, it may help to tell the potential readers which program you are using to burn the cd's with. As it may have a feature to solve the problem for you. For instance, in Nero Burning Rom, it allows you to choose the order by dragging and dropping the tracks into the required order, then burning them how you want them. You may wish to try that with whatever you are using.

HTH

This isn't working for me - done this way they all mix up still :rolleyes:

Ellie

I feel the need to bump this.

Any other ideas would be appreciated. thank u!

Ganyam

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used this last week to do 6000 songs took a while but it works a treat, if your songs are listed in the album order its even easier..

adamuk_2

Don't know about Nero but I use Roxio Easy media creator 7 and with my Kenwood MP3 CD player I had a similar problem.
I found after a bit of trial and error with a rewritable CD that it was caused by using the UDF102 file system. I changed this to ISO9660 or to Joliet and it then played the files in the correct order.

So check if Nero has an option somewhere to change the file system.

Adam