Gunbot wrote:mikemarrs wrote:Michigan Girl wrote:mikemarrs wrote:does anyone here know how to make an MP3 where the songs are in the order you record them in.i'll make an MP3 on windows media player on my computer and take it out to play it and everytime the songs come out in a different order.
That sounds like the shuffle option!!
i checked but that isn't it.i thought it was shuffle too but everytime i burn an MP3 with 30 or 40 songs the damn thing will do it.a lot of these burners do that and i'm not tech savvy enough to figure out how to do it.like i recorded every journey album in order from infinity to raised on radio.instead of playing the songs in order starting from infinity the damn thing starts off with an escape song,then a departure song,etc.,etc. it seems to want to go by root files or something because it will put them in that same order every time,lol.
anyone know how to bypass that problem?
Is it playing all the number 1 tracks from all the albums , then number 2 and so on?
no it just plays a mixed up scrambled list.i heard that windows media player does that though.i've even tried renaming each song by putting the number 01,02,03,etc. in front of each song and that doesn't work.read below for a review of what i think it could be.a person wrote this on the 'net and i can't understand half of it but it describes my problem perfectly.....
If your CD/mp3 player supports .m3u playlists, you can use a playlist to set the order when playing back the tracks on a data disc.
A little background. With data (as opposed to Audio) discs, regardless of the order in which files (each track is actually seen as a data file) are burned on a disc, the order in which they are displayed/played back on a device is determined by the OS of the playback device. They are ordered by numerical and alphabetical rules, sometimes including how many levels of folders there are from the root directory to each specific track (On your computer, the root level is the drive letter like "C:"). For instance, if I have a separate folder for each artist, and a separate subfolder for each album by that artist, and then each track within each album listed as 01-track name, 02-track name, etc... then most playback devices will start with the album with the name at the top of the numerical/alphabetic list. But say I want the albums to play in the order they were released. If I include the date (1971, 1982, etc) at the beginning of the album name, then they will be ordered chronologically.
The easiest way to handle this is to designate this type of structure in the file output setting when you rip the tracks. You end up with something that looks like this: "C:\My Music\Miles Davis\1959-Kind Of Blue\01-So_What.mp3" But that doesn't help you with a mix CD does it? So I change the file output settings when ripping a multi-artist album so that I wind up with: C:\My Music\Blue Note Jazz Sampler\06-So_What-Miles_Davis.mp3. But that only works if I want to play the tracks in the same order they where on the original disc. If I want to play them back in a different order, I can use an .m3u playlist. Personally, I use WinAmp (it's free and available on download.com) to generate a playlist. Just list all the tracks in the order you want in the playlist window, then save the playlist. I usually save the playlist to the same folder that contains the music tracks themselves. Then when you burn the mp3 tracks to a data CD-R, include the .m3u file as well. You may have to experiment a little, as some CD/MP3 players are picky about where in the file structure the .m3u file must be in order to be "seen" by the player. I also have a Sony CD/MP3 player (D-NE518CK). In order to use .m3u playlists on it, they must be in the "root" directory, not in one of the folders or subfolders. It will also "see" only the first two lists (based on the same numerical/alphabetic hierarchy as the folder/file structure). A RioVolt CD/MP3 player I have will work with up to 16 .m3u lists, but if there are more than 16 on the disc, it has trouble using any of them.
Once you have made a data CD-R with .mp3 tracks and an .m3u playlist on it, you can play it back on any player that supports them. Just follow the player's instructions on how to play back an .m3u playlist.
by Since 78 » Thu Jul 24, 2008 2:34 pm 
