I've got the best part of 30 gigs of MP3s on my PC and I've just ordered a Blaupunkt MP3 CD player. What's the best way to burn the discs? The tracks on my PC are on a completely seperate hard drive and nothing is organised - the tracks are listed by artist and then song. I've already burned one disc but I'm not sure that a long list of 300 tracks is the answer...How do I guarantee CD text on the discs? At the moment I'm using Musicmatch Jukebox Plus. The volume levels are all differewnt too - I've tried using normalizing software but it doesn't work - even the feature in Musicmatch is a bit poor...Anyone got any ideas cos I'm going nuts trying to figure it all out!!

 

Hi,

I have a Sony CDXMP40 MP3 CD player and it understands the concept of folders on a CD-R/CD-RW. Hopefully your Blaupunkt will be the same. So - I have my music in a folder for the artist, then a sub-folder for the album which then contains the tracks.

The text display shows the ID3v1 tags if the track has them or the artist/album/filename is not.

Normalisation is a problem I have also, I just have to adjust the volume

Gary.

 

Do you copy your discs as normal data?

 

Yes. I use Nero to burn the discs but any disc writing software should do. I just copy the folders on to the disc.. it's that easy.

One thing to remember is that they will probably be played in alpha-numeric order so it's a good idea to have the tracks prefixed with the playing order e.g. 01-track1, 02-track2...etc.

 

Cheers, I'll give it a go once the headunit comes...

 

Jamesemt,

I'd consider making sense of the set-up on the hard disk before trying to burn anything. Either by separating albums into folders or adding album name to the track names. I use folders "Artist\Album\tracks&playlist" on my MP3 player. Make sure that ID3 tag (V1 & V2) information is included on all of the MP3s. The h/u should be able to display this information when playing the tracks.

When burning an MP3 CD, you are making a data CD. If the Blaupunkt is new then it should understand multiple folders on the disk and multiple sessions on the disk and playlists. I'd start with a CD-RW you won't get so wound up if something goes wrong, you can erase it and start again.

AFAIK CD-text is for Audio CDs only. i.e. 'normal' CD audio CDs. I've burnt several audio CDs with CD text support.


Vindaloo.