Problems Burning Windows Media Playlist To CD

[boing]

Hi guys, I have a folder of 40 music tracks (mp3) and want to burn them to a CD to listen to at the gym, now, I am having trouble getting a finished CD that has the tracks listed in the same order as per the windows media player playlist

On my first try, Windows Media Player burnt the tracks in alphabetical order, so I attempted to get around that by renaming the track names using sequential numbers (01 thru 40) this resulted in a CD that had most of the tracks in the right order, but approx 6 were out of place

The closest I have come is by using windows media player, it burns all the tracks but it doesnt keep the tracks as per the playlist order

Also, I have tried burning the CD with Real Player and it will only let me burn 25 tracks

DeepBurner Pro says 'there is not sufficient space on current media' which is strange because all the tracks add up to 160MB, and as i say, Windows Media Player burns them with no trouble

Does anyone know how I can burn a CD using windows media player and keep the playlist order?

Failing that, what other CD burning software is recomended?

Cheers

[guns1inger]

I would suggest DeepBurner Pro is trying to create an audio CD, which will convert all you music to PCM audio, and take up a lot of space. You need a data CD if you want to keep them as MP3. Then they will fit. I am sure Deep Burner Pro has this option, so check out the help files to see what you need to do.

Failing that, CDBurnerXP Pro is a reasonable freeware burning app, but again, you need to create a data CD to retain MP3 audio.

If you do this, you must have a CD player capable of MP3 playback. If not, you are limited to about 74 minutes of audio.

[boing]

I would suggest DeepBurner Pro is trying to create an audio CD, which will convert all you music to PCM audio, and take up a lot of space. You need a data CD if you want to keep them as MP3. Then they will fit. I am sure Deep Burner Pro has this option, so check out the help files to see what you need to do.

Failing that, CDBurnerXP Pro is a reasonable freeware burning app, but again, you need to create a data CD to retain MP3 audio.

If you do this, you must have a CD player capable of MP3 playback. If not, you are limited to about 74 minutes of audio.

Hi Gunslinger, what I am trying to do is put together a CD to train to at the gym, as I understand it, I need to make an audio CD, failing this, a disc full of mp3s?

The problem with the audio CD route, is that most all of the software I use tells me that anything over 80mins in a non starter, however, windows media player will gladly burn a 120 min CD but the playlist isnt preserved

Now onto the mp3 disc, I have just burnt an mp3 disc, but my problem now is that I am wondering if this disc will play in the 'set top/hi fi stereo' CD player at the gym? (I dont have a CD player to test it, I only own a DVD player, it does play in my PC CD rom though)

BTW, what format do Audio CD's use then? is it a wav of some kind?

[guns1inger]

An audio CD is limited to the number of minutes printed on the CD itself. A 700MB CD will give you 80 minutes of music. If WMP is burning 120 minutes then it is creating a data disc that will only ne playable on devices capable of playing back WMA files. This would include some DVD players, and windows PC with WMP9 or later, and some other devices. It won't play back on a standard CD player.

For playback on a standard CD player you must create an audio CD, and you will be limited to 80 minutes on a 700MB CD. That is the brutal reality of physics.

[boing]

OK, this is what I dont understand, what I did was open the target folder (full of the mp3s I wanted to burn in to CD using WMP) I highlighted all the files, and then clicked 'add to burn list', all 40 tracks then appeared in the 'ready to burn' list, at the end of this process I have a two hour CD as made by WMP, if I explore the files on the burnt CD it says they are mp3, is this correct? I take it I have burnt a mp3 disc?

Is it possible to burn an audio DVD? or is that opening a whole new can of worms? essentially, is there any getting around the 80 min issue?

[guns1inger]

An audio CD is what Deep Burner Pro is trying to create, however you have selected too many tracks for a single CD. That is why it is telling you it can't all fit.

There is a simple way of getting around the 80 minute 'issue' - burn two CDs.