Make an MP3 CD for car stereo

In reviewing a number of postings here and elsewhere, I've had no luck in making such a CD. I have a playlist that I'd like to burn to a CD for the car. I've changed Preferences/Import Settings to mp3. I've selected the tracks in the playlist using Cmd-A. From the menu, I selected Advanced/Create MP3 and the mp3 file is located in the same folder as the original. But selecting File/Burn playlist to disk reports most of the files can not be burned to an MP3 CD. I then tried holding down the Option key and selecting Advanced/Convert to MP3. I select a folder and get another error: "none of the selected files could be converted"!

This really shouldn't be this tough. Anyone see what I am missing or doing wrong?

Thanks.

Posted on Jul 28, 2012 1:14 PM

20 replies

Chris CA

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Jul 29, 2012 3:55 PM in response to JohnZonie

Glad you got it sorted!

bigredi

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Jun 10, 2013 1:02 PM in response to JohnZonie

Sometimes Apple makes things to easy for us mind-full people. itunes makes it too simple to make a cd car stereo-ready, from MP3 tunes. Just create your playlist. I just used my recently added link from the main left hand menu. It onl contained the songs I wanted to burn to disc. So I then selected "Burn to disc" and up pops the option to burn. Choose ~Disc Format, then ~Audio CD~ Then hit Burn.

iTunes does the rest for you. I did not convert my MP3 tunes to AAC. I always thought I had to dothis first for a cd to work in non-computer players until today! 🙂

Hope this helps others!!!....M

Chris CA

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Jun 10, 2013 1:22 PM in response to bigredi

bigredi wrote:

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This was sorted out 11 months ago.

iTunes does the rest for you. I did not convert my MP3 tunes to AAC.

No reason to do this at all.

iTunes will burn any audio file it can use (MP2, AAC, AIFF, WAV ALAC) to audioCd format. No need to convert first.

But this thread is about burning an MP3 format CD, not an audio CD (which is what you did).

SwissPol

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Feb 21, 2014 10:43 PM in response to JohnZonie

On Mac, your best solution to create MP3 CDs for your car is MP3 CD Maker which can burn MP3 CDs from your iTunes playlists without requiring you to convert all your songs to MP3 format beforehand.

Mar 29, 2014 8:53 AM in response to JohnZonie

I created an MP3 CD by using the Finder. iTunes would create the MP3s for me but would not burn them to disc. I found the MP3 files in the Finder and created a new Burn Folder. They burned fine but would not "verify" on their own for whatever reason. I simply ejected it, reloaded it, and verified it myself. How's that for bypassing iTunes. Now we'll see if it plays in my car. I may or may not get back to you on that. -Dianasaur

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Make an MP3 CD for car stereo