help....can it be done.

[Baynesey]

right im sure ive read this on here before but ive searched and searched and cant find the thread.

ive got so many cds in my car, it just looks a mess, so trying to put more then one album on a cd, how do i do it!!!! anyone got a guide???

[TU-Tuning]

Does you head unit play Mp3 disks?

[Baynesey]

yes mate

[R60-VTR]

In which case you can get mp3 discs and you should be able to load loads of song on each CD. Some CD's can handle about 10 albums worth on a single CD.

Hope this helped!

[TU-Tuning]

Have you got a program called Nero?

If you do then you just burn the songs onto a disk as files. So you just find all the song files you want and then copy them onto the disk.

If you havent got a program like that search google or www.download.com for a program that lets you burn files to CD-Rs.

[Baynesey]

i downloaded nero earlier but it seemed to be just a media player so i got rid!!!

ive just brought loads of normal cds, so dont really wanna go out a buy the mp3 discs.

[TU-Tuning]

Normal cds are Mp3 disks, you can use CD-Rs for just burning files onto like if you wanted to back up some important documents etc. You just do that with music files.

The nero i have only plays music to preview it. Have a look fro Nero Startsmart

[saxodan]

Get an mp3 headunit

Buy some Cd-R's


Get nero

It has an mp3 cd creator

[Mysticp]

MP3's are only a few megabytes each, say 4mb on average.

A CD-R will hold about 700mb worth of data.

700mb / 4mb = 175 tracks

Assuming an album has 14 tracks on it we have:

175 tracks / 14 tracks = 12.5 albums

OK, so thats the math behind why an MP3 CD will hold so many albums.

a CD bought from a chop or created using some kind of a 'CD creater' feature of cd burning software stores the music in a different way, where each track can be around 10x larger than their MP3 equivilents, hense only about 20 songs will fit on a disc.

Assuming you have an MP3 headunit, you to copy all your albums onto your PC into MP3 format, if you use windows media player or itunes chances are you will get .wma or .m3u files which wont be compatable with your headunit (unless it is stated on the unit) then using some CD burning software find the option to create MP3 CDs or drag the MP3s straight onto the CD-R so that they remain in their MP3 format. If it starts converting them into some kind of other audio format you have done something wrong, cancel it & find the most basic option to put files onto the CD.

Well that was a bit of a rant but im bored at work. Hopefully that will help you though

[djrem]

set itunes to burn "data cds"

then, when you burn a playlist to a cd it will create a MP3 cd.

This will let you get 800MBs on one disc instead of 80mins.

800MB = about a lot more albums i think

[dannyjay]

Lol your all noobs. Windows XP lets you do it now, open the blank CD up in My Computer, drag and drop the songs/albums you want on it. Then right click inside the window, and then the option that says "Burn to Disc" or something.

Use it all the time at work, aslong as its not a Audio CD, then this works fine.
No need for any new software.

[djrem]

also as above but untick the recommended box "Burn as Audio CD" or whatever it says