problem with burning songs

[natty]

Hi all I have 21 .mp3 songs which i want to burn to a 700mb cd so it can be played on a cd player the total of all 21 songs is only 185mb but when I use CDBurnerXP it goes into the red and wont burn

[gadgetguy]

CDBurnerXP is probably wanting to convert them to CD music files which are considerably larger than the mp3 source. Is your CD player capable of playing mp3 files? If so, you need to burn them as data files and keep them in mp3 format.

[natty]

CDBurnerXP is probably wanting to convert them to CD music files which are considerably larger than the mp3 source. Is your CD player capable of playing mp3 files? If so, you need to burn them as data files and keep them in mp3 format.

I just assumed that any music disc must be burnt as audio. I don't really know if the cd player plays .mp3 as its for my niece and she wont know. But if I do burn the songs as data will it play as single songs on her cd player in order

[gadgetguy]

They will only play if her CD player is capable of playing mp3 files and most inexpensive portable models can't. As for order of play, I can't say. The one I had, (it died and I haven't replaced it), played them in the order they were burned, so if you didn't pay attention to how they were listed when selected they sometimes burned out of the desired order.

[pcspeak]

Yeah. gadgetguy is right.
To work out the audio size I just add a zero.
185 meg MP3 = 1850 meg audio. It's an approximation, but close enough for me.

I have never found any burning software that will keep my MP3s in album order. They are always sorted. It's a Windows thing. When I wrote to the ashampoo development team about this they said there was no way to stop the operating system from sorting before a data burn. (I'm taking their word on this.)

I just leave in the number my ripper adds to the track name, both in the file name AND in the tag.