Creating an mp3 CD

[FunkyNige]

Help!
I'm having difficulty creating a CD of mp3s for a mate and I'm hoping someone here can tell me where I'm going wrong.
I've got all the mp3s, I've burnt them to a CD as a 'data disc' on Nero, but in his mp3 player in his car it says there is only one track and that is just silence.
Am I supposed to finalise the disc or something like that?
I'm using Nero 5.

Thanks in advance.

[BrianTheYank]

I dun now nothing about the program your using, but I use hp recordnow and it works like a charm.

[FourWheelDrift]

Simple, don't burn MP3's onto a CD as a data disc. it will never work.

Burn the MP3's as an audio disc on the options at the start.

[dannyboyo]

Unless you've got an MP3 player in your car of course!

(saying that, mine's stopped playing MP3's recently - Doh!!)

>> Edited by dannyboyo on Saturday 15th May 20:54

[KITT]

Assuming his car CD player can play mp3s then you'll need to ensure all mp3s are stored in sub-folders. For some reason car mp3 players (well my Pioneer one anyway) won't read anything in the root of a CD. Also do ensure you use a bit-rate it can understand.

[dannyboyo]

Adding to the last post, I think they can't read variable bit rate MP3's. 160 is always a safe option.

[warmfuzzies]

And make sure the disk is finalised....Nero will sometimes leave the disk unfinished so more data can be added l8r.
Nero 6 will burn MP3's as an option, quite neat too.

kevin.

[FunkyNige]

FourWheelDrift said:

Simple, don't burn MP3's onto a CD as a data disc. it will never work. Burn the MP3's as an audio disc on the options at the start.

eh? It's an mp3 player, the whole point of it is to play 6 hours worth on one CD. Burning an audio CD I only get 74 mins.

As for putting the mp3s in s sub-folder, that didn't work either!
2 CDs down, 98 to go....

[FourWheelDrift]

You asked about Nero (actually I didn't read the MP3 player bit - had a few drinks) If you want low quality MP3's stuffed onto a CD for an MP3 player you need something along the lines of Dual Burner or Musicmatch.

www.net-burner.com/Products/Dual-Burner.cfm
www.musicmatch.com/

[ultimasimon]

FourWheelDrift said:

You asked about Nero (actually I didn't read the MP3 player bit - had a few drinks) If you want low quality MP3's stuffed onto a CD for an MP3 player you need something along the lines of Dual Burner or Musicmatch. www.net-burner.com/Products/Dual-Burner.cfm www.musicmatch.com/

I can recommend Musicmatch as I use it. It's as easy as selecting the choonz, adding them to your Playlist and pressing 'Burn'.

Job done. You can even get Musicmatch to print you a CD cover up, with all the tracks details etc - with artwork

Also if you have a home LAN, you can stream mp3 audio around your pad, by selecting 'mp3 Server 'in 'CD Lookup/Conectivity' tab Well

Instant large juke box in any room.

[steve-p]

FourWheelDrift said:

You asked about Nero (actually I didn't read the MP3 player bit - had a few drinks) If you want low quality MP3's stuffed onto a CD for an MP3 player you need something along the lines of Dual Burner or Musicmatch.

Why? Nero does it perfectly well.

[FourWheelDrift]

steve-p said:

FourWheelDrift said: You asked about Nero (actually I didn't read the MP3 player bit - had a few drinks) If you want low quality MP3's stuffed onto a CD for an MP3 player you need something along the lines of Dual Burner or Musicmatch. Why? Nero does it perfectly well.

So it does, never knew that. Although it would have probably have been better to have told FunkyNige how to do it since he wants to know

Or you could just go to the website nige the how to guides are here.

www.nero.com/en/631933327150036.html

>> Edited by FourWheelDrift on Sunday 16th May 11:30

[andyf007]

2 down, 98 to go? I hope your not using a cheapo 100 CDR spindle . I use nero to burn mp3s as a data CD and they play fine. Test for poorly burned CDs by sticking them in a home DVD player, most play mp3s nowadays. Also, some CD/mp3 players will not recognise some types of disc, eg. some don't like CD/RWs and some 70 & 80 min discs.

If you are using cheapo discs, turn the burn speed right down too.

Andy