In my new car the CD is MP3 and WMA compatible.
My question is this; can I just put MP3's on a CD and number them? or do they have to be in folders named? I would just like to stick the CD in there and let it play. I have most of the stuff burned to CD but I would like to put it all on one or 2 CD's instead of fifty of them.
Before I answer the question, I have to ask, why not just try it out? Blank CDs cost something like 50 cents.
Now, to answer your question--both are right. Almost every player I have seen will play CDs if they are put in a list at the top of the root directory, but they will also traverse directories and play songs in those directories. So you can put folders on there with albums in them. Some players have a folder traversal depth of say, 2 or 3 folders. A depth limit of two means that the player would read files in /Led Zeppelin/Presence, but not in /Led Zeppelin/Presence/Disc 1. There's probably a manual for your CD player somewhere if you run into problems.
Thanks Charger.
I am going to try it, but to fill a CD with MP3's will take renaming every one of them with a number in front (I think) so that will be several hours work per CD. They are all numbered in my computer in folders but each folder only has from 1 to 15 or so so I have to renumber many hundreds of files. I know I can just burn the folders to CD and the player will give me a list of folders to select, but I am more interested in not taking my attention off the road even for that (the older I get the slower my mind works)
Doesn't whatever software you have to make the .mp3's do that for you Harv?
Yes, I use iTunes, but whenever I import a CD it automatically puts all those numbers on the filenames (and orders everything into folders).
just copy the directories over it should work. the player in our caravan works that way.
CraigBert — Dec 11, 2008Doesn't whatever software you have to make the .mp3's do that for you Harv?
Yes, I use iTunes, but whenever I import a CD it automatically puts all those numbers on the filenames (and orders everything into folders).
I just grab my MP3's from friends and other places, and then I just use Windows Media Player to play them on my computers or Nero to burn audio CD's with them. I don't have any special software for MP3 doings. I do have Sound Forge which I do use in the recording process. But that is it.