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I`m converting my CD collection over to MP3 and have been playing around with Nero and Adaptec EZCD 4.

I want to create a directory for each band, and a sub-dir for each album. The filenames will just be the track names.

The trick is I want to keep the original order of the tracks. I`ve used Nero, but it just does them alphabetically. Using Adaptec Easy CD 4 allows me to select the file burning order myself, but this order depends upon the file system I use (JOILET or ISO9660).

Wondered if anyone had some useful info about how they burn theirs?

TIA

NiVZ.

P.S I`ve got one track which seems to miss the first second. Plays fine on the PC, but not on the Scan. Might be something to do with the filesystem on the CD-RW.

This is an unfortunate problem with CD`s full of mp3`s and there appears to be no CD standard yet created that can do this. I hope there will be one because devices that play CD`s full of mp3`s will be common place soon. The mp3`s are just data files which are stored in a very different way to audio tracks on a CD.
The only thing you can do is to rename with leading numbers for example, your tracks - not very elegant. I have spent ages trying to figure this out. What you really want is a player that searches the disc for a playlist, and then plays the tracks in the playlist on the CD on the playlist order. Put it on the Scan wish list.

NIVZ

I use prassi to burn everything including mp3`s for my sc2000

The way that i do it is i create a folder of the band and inside that folder i have a folder for every album from that band.I do seperate folders for all the bands with their albums contained within these folders.I then just drag the folders into an ISO and burn it off and it achieves what you want.


xeno

up the irons!!

Ive had the same problem, my MP3 player plays the tracks in the order theyre burnt. NIVZ, how do you control the burn order in EZCD 4? When I burnt a CD the MP3`s werent in the order that they were added to my CD image OR in alphabetical order! (the track I added first AND was first alphabetically ended up as track 88!?)

Any help would be much appreciated.

Thanks

Andy

I have found the only way to keep the order is to use number first WITH leading 0 ie 01 track 1 , 02 track 2 etc. if you dont use the leading 0 then it will sort 1,10,12---19,2,20,21---etc

Croc `<

You want to use some software like `Music Match Jukebox`.
When the put a CD in your PC CD Drive, it goes onto the web and locates the CD in the CDDB. This then automatically displays the CD Title and all of the Track titles. When ripping down to MP3 the info is automaically put into the MP3 header. The MP3 disk you then create will then obviously contain all this info - the tracks will still however be placed in alphabetical order (unless you rename them in the order you want as TRACK001, TRACK002 etc ...)

Try using audio catalyst to rip the filez
Go to the settings menu and change the order of name data
ie have the track number first ( 01 type format ) followed by artist name track title etc
you can use the CDDB option to then generate the names for you if you are on-line

Hope this Helps

Another problem I`m encoutering is this:

I burn the CD with the following structure:

MP3
¦
--------Artist1
¦ ¦
¦ ----------Album1
¦ ¦ ¦
¦ ¦ -----TRACK1.MP3
¦ ¦ ¦
¦ ¦ ---- TRACK2.MP3
¦ ¦ ¦
¦ ¦ -----Bonus Disc
¦ ¦ ¦
¦ ¦ ----- TRACK1.MP3
¦ -------------Album2
¦
------------Artist2
¦
----------Album1
¦
-----TRACK1.MP3
¦
---- TRACK2.MP3

But what I see on the DVD player is all the ALBUM directories and the BONUS DISC directory in the root dir. What am I doing wrong??

NiVZ