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Burning MP3 CD Reorders My Song List

I have been burning CDs using Apple Music on MACOS Big Sur (v11.6).

The playlist order is maintained on the CD when I burn an Audio CD.

The playlist order of the CD is NOT maintained when I burn MP3 CDs.

I tried all the obvious stuff: restarted MAC, clicked on "Copy to Play Order", sort by Play Order, renumbered with "Track Order" etc. no good.

Posted on Jan 19, 2023 4:25 PM

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Posted on Jan 22, 2023 10:50 AM

I figured it out. After burning a MP3 CD, the song order appears mixed when attached to the computer. But when I place the MP3 CD in a dedicated player (say car CD player) the songs play in the correct order. I investigated the MP3 CD file content and found an XML file with the song list, which I assume, is used by the dedicated CD player. I'm good with that! p.s. still odd the Apple Music does not use/recognize this XML file (?)

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Jan 22, 2023 10:50 AM in response to turingtest2

I figured it out. After burning a MP3 CD, the song order appears mixed when attached to the computer. But when I place the MP3 CD in a dedicated player (say car CD player) the songs play in the correct order. I investigated the MP3 CD file content and found an XML file with the song list, which I assume, is used by the dedicated CD player. I'm good with that! p.s. still odd the Apple Music does not use/recognize this XML file (?)

Jan 20, 2023 12:17 PM in response to GioBert

Audio CDs are set out in the play order of the playlist, just linear audio data with a list of track lengths. MP3 CDs and Data CDs copy over the files as they are with their original file names, so the order of these is undefined. If you want these to play in a particular order you may need to make copies of the files and then add a track order prefix by hand, before burning the collection to disc.


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Burning MP3 CD Reorders My Song List

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