Label mp3s

[jyeh74]

I called Eclipse on this. I have all my mp3s titled. " Author- Song title".mp3 on the file and even the ID3 tag in winamp under properties.

Yet when I burn it using Nero on a cd-r, and try to play it in my deck, it assigns numbers to the songs randomly. How can I change it? It will say something like

song01
song02
song003
song_06

There is no real numbering behind how its displayed on the deck. The Eclipse representative told me I had to correctly title the song. But I have done it, yet still doesnt show. can anyone help?

[junkmalle]

Could be an ISO vs. UDF issue. Be sure to finalize the disk, don't use multisession. It also may not like long filenames. Try a few 8.3 filenames to see if that works.

[jyeh74]

sorry I dont understand ISO vs UDF. I just title all my songs the same way

Example "Mariah Carey- Breakdown.mp3", but it will come out something like "MARIA_01"

Anyone else exprience this in their car decks? I can't change it with the deck.

[Denvers Dawgs]

You just answered my question as I was typing this out......I was going to ask about the deck

[junkmalle]

Maybe your player only supports 8 character filenames. That's not uncommon.

When you start a new CD from the wizard in Nero try both CD-ROM (ISO) and CD-ROM (UDF).

[jyeh74]

I usually use Nero Express, and just "add" the 150 or so mp3s to a cd-r.
So now I am trying Nero Burning Rom (not express) and I suppose I choose CDROM (ISO). How does it know whether I want mp3 or audio?

For the "File System" I have three choices. Can someone please tell me the difference

1) ISO 9660 only
2) ISO 9660 + Joliet
3) ISO 9660:1999

Now for the "File Name Length (ISO)" I think this is the key:

1) Max. of 11 = 8 + 3 chars (Level 1) ........why is it 8+3?
2) Max of 31 chars (Level 2)

What is "Character set (ISO)" ?

1) ISO 9660 (standard ISO CDROM)
2) DOS
3) ACII

I am confused on what I choose for "File System" and "Character Set (ISO)" Please can someone explain what they are in English.....

Thank you

[jyeh74]

I see the CDROM (UDF), but it under the "UDF" tab it does not have the level 2 max 31 character option like the ISO does. I'm not sure what UDF versus ISO means let alone the whole joliet system setup.

[junkmalle]

I usually use Nero Express, and just "add" the 150 or so mp3s to a cd-r.
So now I am trying Nero Burning Rom (not express) and I suppose I choose CDROM (ISO). How does it know whether I want mp3 or audio?

There is nothing special about MP3 CDs. They are just CD-ROM data disks full of files. If the files happen to be MP3 files an MP3 CD player can play them. You can put other files on the CDs too but the player won't know what to do with them.

I am confused on what I choose for "File System" and "Character Set (ISO)" Please can someone explain what they are in English.....

In the old days DOS only supported 8.3 file names. Eight character filenames with 3 character extensions. The extension identified what type the file was. TXT was a text file, EXE was an executable, DOC was a MS Word document, etc. Later the ability to use longer filenames was added to Windows. But since Windows was really just a pretty program that ran over DOS the long filenames had to be supported in a way that older programs could still see them with an 8.3 filename. If you go to a command line prompt and type "DIR /X" you'll see both 8.3 and long filenames.

Some file systems support different character sets. The alphabetic characters are supported by all but some of the other characters aren't legal under some file systems. For example the space character isn't valid in 8.3 filenames. The back slash and forward slash characters aren't valid in Windows file names.

CDs developed alongside all this and many of the uses were not DOS or Windows, or even computer related. Later CD-R and CD-RW came along so even more file systems and modifications were created for them. So there are many different file systems, and attempts at hybrid file systems (UDF/ISO).

UDF is one of the oldest CD-ROM file systems. It only supports 8.3 filenames. Some devices only understand this format. ISO supports longer filenames but some devices don't understand the format at all. Some understand the format but only use the 8.3 version of the filenames. MP3 CD players often fall into this catagory.

I don't know what file system your CD/MP3 player wants. If the manual or manufacturer won't tell all you can do is you try different settings until you find what works best.

[dphirschler]

Could it perhaps be the ID tag that is being displayed? For instance, when I load some random mp3s into Winamp, if some of them have tags and others do not, the song order gets all scrambled.

Or maybe a related strategy is to (if possible) configure your player to use the ID tags instead of the filenames for sorting.


Darryl

[psx_pirate]

you can use the 'joliet' setting to get the long file names (nero will shorten them to 8+3 format using the random titles you are seeing if joliet isnt used)... however your mp3 cd player may struggle to read the file names and access the disk unless it is able to support the long filenames (my mp3 cd player in the car will read the long file names but it takes ages to access the disk and sometimes chokes during playback as it isnt designed to support anything other than 8+3 filenames). the best thing to do is to use the 8+3 rules in the actual filename and set the player to display the id3 tag (if it has this function ... mine does).

hers what i do ... get all the mp3's (with id3 tags) in one folder then use pztag editor to change the filename to track numbers (it will do them all at once so you dont have to spend hours doing them 1 by 1) ... close pztag editor and the folder will now contain tracks labeled 001, 002.... etc. now just burn the disk and use the display id3 tag function of the player to see your tracks ... if you want to keep the tracks on your hdd and see the filenames as they were before just load the tracks back into pztag editor and use the id3tag to filename function and hey presto .. all the filename will be back to artist - track title, etc