burning cd from playlist

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burning cd from playlist

i've been burning my playlist encase i need to upload the cd on another computer. If something ever happens to my library.

Anyway cd just burns as a audio cd. But my daughter was telling me that I should burn it with cd text. Not sure that is something that I would need if need to go to another computer. I'm not sure what it is.

Can anyone tell me what this is and do I need it?

Dell E510, Windows XP

Posted on Aug 3, 2009 12:24 AM

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Aug 3, 2009 1:15 AM in response to all new nano

The CD track names are for displaying track names in car stereos etc.

I'm afraid that you will have to manually enter the song/artist names if you have burned a playlist with random songs on it.
However if you have burned an album,then you can do a CD look-up the next time you import it.

I would use another option to back up your files:
Burn it as DATA files (mp3 aac etc)
That way you can just right-click on them then copy the files from the CD into your iTunes library. Then add the files or folders using File > add file to library or Add folder to library.

And data files don't take up so much space on a CD-R or a DVD-R. You can burn up to 700mb, or 80 min in total song time directly from your playlist.

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Aug 3, 2009 10:43 PM in response to Thomas Sjöholm

Thanks for explaining 🙂
But that is exactly what I have random songs. I never seem to get things easy for me. So I'm used to going about the long way.

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Chris CA

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Aug 3, 2009 10:56 PM in response to all new nano

So I'm used to going about the long way.

Then you shoul dget used to doing it the short way. 😉
If you burn an audio CD, you lose the info and you can get only about 10-15 songs on a CD.
Burn a Data CD and you do not lose any of the songs/album/artist info and you can get ~180 songs on one CD.
Burn a Data DVD and you can get ~1000 songs and not lose any info.

Also, if you burn an audio CD then reRIP it back into iTunes, you will degrade the audio more..

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Sep 2, 2009 11:09 PM in response to Chris CA

if i burn the cd for data and need to put back in itunes, would it read the cd or would i need to adjust something so itunes will take it and put the songs back in my library the way i have my library now?

Also it says some players can't use the data cd. I know I can't use the mp3 cd and if i go all through that how do i know data will work?

I've been thinking too of getting a mac laptop. will it mess anything up on transferring a itunes library from windows to mac, even burning a data cd?

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