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iTunes MP3 to MP3 CD ????

Hi, just recently i purchased a 3 CD boxed set from HMV i put each of them in turn into my Mac Book Pros CD/DVD drive and iTunes copied them to my hard drive and i can see all three CD Albums in iTunes 🙂


I then decided i would like to put them all onto ONE CD in MP3 format for playing on my cars MP3/Radio.


I then tried to make a Playlist from the 3 cd's listed in iTunes, hoping i would then be able to keep the 3 cd's seperate from each other, in seperate folders on the final MP3 CD, but whatever i tried to do i could not, i could only get one long list of tracks.


Back to square one.


I then double tapped on one of the files, one of the options was reveal in finder 🙂 i was further very pleased when i saw they were already in MP3 format on my Hard Drive, albeit in a deep folder nest in the iTunes folder, so i copied the folders containing all 3 CD's into a far more accessible place on my desktop ! 🙂


I then used the DATA option of "BURN" to burn these three folders full of MP3 files to a CD R


I then found i could listen to them on my Lap Top absolutely fine.


BUT sadly when i tried it in my Sony MP3 HiFi CD Player there was no sound, although the display showed that it WAS playing !! 😟


I am now a ****** site more confused than ever.


It looks as if "BURN" used the UDF format to burn the CD, is that CORRECT ??


Tim

OS X Mavericks (10.9), iPad 2, iPhone 4S

Posted on Dec 5, 2013 1:14 PM

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Dec 6, 2013 11:10 AM in response to timmy toad

Yes, the tags look correct.



I can officialy say i have now given up ! LOL, i was initially wanting to create a MP3 CD to try in a chaps car, simply to ascertain if his Cars CD Player was compatible with MP3 CD's .......

Are the files in MP3 format?

On the screen above, click the Summary tab and look at Kind: & Format:

If it isn't MPEG audio file and MPEG-1, Layer 3, it's not an MP3.


You need to convert them first to MP3 (you can do this in iTunes) before you can burn them as MP3.

If you select MP3 disc in the Burn window, iTunes will only burn files that are already MP3.

You selected DataCD , iTunes will burn the files to CD, regardless of format.

iTunes MP3 to MP3 CD ????

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