how to burn mp3 to cd to make an audio cd

[oduodui]

good day gentleman.

is this the correct place to ask this question ??

i have a bunch of mp3's i want to burn to a cd so that it wil play on recordable cd players car frontloading cd/radioplayers.

i first tried just to copy the mp3 files to the cd.

the disk says udf file system. it works on thia windows pc but not on a car radio cd player or portable radio cd player.

i tried windows media player to burn and then the cd said cda and only a few kilobyters were burned.

any suggestions ??

[Des]

When put onto a CD the mp3s are just files. You need to convert them and burn them to a proper CD structure.
Easiest and most effective way is to go to the tools section of this site and download Burrrn.
Then drop your mp3 files into the interface and and let it do all the work

--dES

[Des]

When put onto a CD the mp3s are just files. You need to convert them and burn them to a proper CD structure.
Easiest and most effective way is to go to the tools section of this site and download Burrrn.
Then drop your mp3 files into the interface and and let it do all the work

--dES

[hech54]

Audio CDs cannot contain MP3 files.....only CDA aka "WAV" files. Your MP3 files will swell up to about 8x their size (8MB is now almost 80MB) so you won't fit a "bunch" on there.....you'll fit 800MB of WAV files on the disc.

[Des]

Hmmm, didn't mean to post twice, must have double clicked while the system was loading. --Sorry.

--dES

[Cornucopia]

There ARE many car players that CAN play "MP3 CDs" (aka Data CDs with MP3 data files on them) - in fact MOST modern cars' CD players can do this. The trick is (often) in the filesystem used and the file naming used.
You should start by finding & checking the manual for the car/player. Very often it specifies what subset of these is expected.
UDF is rarely expected/supported on CDs. Try combo ("bridge") ISO9660+Joliet systems. Keep all your filenames to <~28 characters, with no non-alphanumerics, and check to see whether you should put them in a subfolder, or put them all in the root.

If trying this with Burrrn or ImgBurn (my preference) - and a good quality disc - still doesn't work, then converting to LPCM for burning as an AudioCD (red book compliant) is the way to go, but you'll have to check carefully about not exceeding your ~79min. time limit on your songs.

Scott

[oduodui]

Scott thank you very much.