MAC Itunes Mp3 CD Problem

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MAC Itunes Mp3 CD Problem

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I need to burn an Mp3 cd on my mac.

I need some of the songs to play 3 or 4 times, so I cannot use toast unless i change each song names 3 times

So I tried using Itunes Playlist. But none of the 2 equipments I use can read the Cd's burned with Itunes( 1.My Marantz Dvd Player, 2. an Mp3 Cd player with H.D.)

I tried different media, i tried burning 700M and 600Mb of music, slow disk burning,Mp3, Data,. Nothing works!

I used to burn my disks with a PC with no problems ever, I had even found the perfect software, ACOUSTICA FOR PC, which normalized volumes, detected incomplete songs , faded songs which ended abruptly and inserted numbers in the beginningt of each file to burn the same file 2 or 3 times.....

It's frustrating to own a $2000 mac, that should be the best managing music and not being able to Burn a simple Mp3 Disc!!!

Any advice on itunes settings( I already tried Mp3CD and Data Disk) or other software is greatluy appreciated.

I've seen some other posts with the same problem and talking about iso 9660 but not a solution that works. Maybe somebody has solved this!

Thanks

Andrea Marchetti

Imac Mac OS X (10.4.6)

Posted on May 12, 2006 4:51 PM

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Answer 1

NoName

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May 12, 2006 9:32 PM in response to amarchetti

How to set the play order of songs on an MP3 CD

Clicking the link above will take you to some good information about your various options for organizing the structure of an MP3 CD. In your case, when you want the same song(s) to repeat, unfortunately it looks as though you'll need to alter the file names manually be adding number to the beginning or similar.

Since you seem to already have Toast, I would just use that software to make the CDs. iTunes should work as well, and I've even had success simply creating an organized hierarchy of folders and files and burning these to a CD-R using the Finder, so, in essence, no special software is required to burn an MP3 CD. An MP3 CD is just a data CD containing MP3s.

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amarchetti Author

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May 14, 2006 9:01 AM in response to amarchetti

Thats exactly what I though.

An MP3 Cd is just data, and Itunes adds a number before each File so the player can read them in my order.

So, any Idea why some players wont play my mac itunes burned CDs?

Thanks

A.Marchetti

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NoName

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May 14, 2006 9:19 AM in response to amarchetti

So, any Idea why some players wont play my mac itunes burned CDs?

Nothing too concrete, unfortunately. It could be because Macs burns hybrid discs (HFS +/ISO 9660) when using the Finder and certain other burning applications, or because sometimes things like .DS_STORE files get burned to data discs and throw certain applications and devices off. An MP3 CD burned with iTunes should be strictly in compliance with ISO 9660, so failure for a device (supporting MP3 CD playback) to play iTunes-generated MP3 CDs is illogical.

Not to drift off topic, but I use OS X and Windows XP every day; I have a PowerMac G4 and a desktop PC in place on the same desk, and I constantly switch back and forth between them doing various things. For most tasks, I favor the Mac, but for anything involving CD/DVD burning, I turn to the PC. This is one area, in my opinion, where Apple is way behind in the game. It's unfortunately a very common complaint to hear someone say that the CD or DVD they burned with a Mac won't work on normal consumer devices, but that the same content burned to disc on a Windows PC works flawlessly.

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amarchetti Author

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May 15, 2006 5:35 PM in response to amarchetti

Thanks!

I'm just dissapointed. I bought this imac mostly to manage photos and music.
:oS
Guess I'm gonna have to go back to my Old Dell!

A.M.

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