iTunes 11 - How do I burn mp3 CDs WITH folders??

That is not a feature of iTunes. If you want tracks in separate folders, you'll have to use some other software to burn the disk.

Regards.

Sorry, no, since I've never done it. Someone else here may have suggestions.

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All you need to do is sort by "Album by Artist" in the playlist before you burn it to disc.

If you sort the playlist by Album, they will be burned into Album folders on the CD.

If you sort by Artist, they will be out into Artist then Album folders.

See this -> iTunes: How to set the play order of songs on an MP3 CD

(it should be the same with iTunes 11 but I haven't tried it yet)

Apologizes; I obviously missed this capability. Sorry for the misinformation.

I just tested it in 11.01... seems to work just same as always.

just tried it in 11.1.1 and its just chucked the lot into the root on the CD 😢

gutted. why can't such a simple thing like this work?

To create the MP3s, first find the tunes you want to convert. You can see the format by right clicking and selecting Get Info andclicking on the File tab at the right. You'll see the format in the list.

Once you have selected all the desired non-MP3s, right click on them and select "Convert to MP3". This can take a while, depending on how many you are converting.

This is going to create duplicate files. When you lclick on the Music button at the top left you will see the duplicated files. The second version is the MP3 version. What I have done is to create a playlist for my complete MP3 collection, naming the playlist with a hyphen before the name to put it at the top of the list in the left pane. I then click on the Music button, find all the MP3s and drag them into my MP3 playlist. Afterwards I click on the playlist and check to make sure that the artist names are uniform. Sometimes the artist name may vary between albums. This is particularly true of compilation albums. For example, in some instances the artist is listed as "Allman Brothers" and in other instances it is listed as "The Allman Brothers Band". If you want to sort them by name, make sure the names are consistent.My next step is to figure out the space required and how much will fit on a CD (650 - 700 MB max). If it will take, say, three CDs, I duplicate the play list twice, adding " Pt. 1", Pt. 2", etc., to the name of the playlist. I then delete the latter two-thirds of the tunes from the first playlist, the first and last thirds from the second list and the first two-thirds from the third list. (Again, this is just an example. You will need to figure out the space you need.)

Now I select the desired playlist, click on "Songs" at the top right, click on the Show drop-down list and then choose my desired sort option from the Sort item in the Show drop-down menu. Then I burn the CD. I do this for each playlist / CD.

Fortunately, my car came with a 6 disc changer. I can then load it up with 6 CDs full of MP3s, thereby making hundreds of songs available without having to connect my phone to the system. Unfortunately, while I have Bluetooth phone set up with steering wheel controls, my system does not have a Bluetooth radio. Also, not all Bluetooth radios support steering wheel controls. This pile-o-CDs system is my solution.

Trey Yancy wrote:

To create the MP3s,

But no one in this thread asked how to create MP3 files.

But the answer was included in my reply. Many people try to burn CDs with folders and when trying to burn them they are hit with a ton of error messages about non-MP3 files. Might as well come up with a big picture answer.

It's actually very easy to do that with Windows Media Player if the MP3 files are in folders to begin with. I don't think iTunes can even play an MP3 disc, but WMP, my DVD player and the CD player in my car can.

Trey Yancy wrote:

But the answer was included in my reply.

You wrote, "and then choose my desired sort option from the Sort item"

Need to sort on Artist or Album to get folders

iTunes plays MP3 CDs just fine.

NNot trying to argue but this topic was sorted 3 years ago.

This worked perfect for me, I made albums then chose MP3 CD Disc Format and the disc burned with a folder for each album. Thanks Chris