Posted by dadiOH on 06/24/06 12:58

Bugalugs wrote:
> Point me in the right direction.
> I've got 700 odd mp3 tracks which I want to burn to CDs so I can use
> for long distance driving. Using Nero it lists the tracks
> alphabetically by artist and I can simply take a chunk of the first
> 200 and burn them. but I wind up with all the one artist on the one
> CD and none on the others. Even on random play it sometimes gets
> boring hearing the same artist.
>
> I've partially solved the problem by putting them all into Winamp,
> doing a number of random sorts and saving them into 5 playlists.
>
> My question is: How do I create those playlists into files which I can
> then import into Nero to burn as a mp3 discs.

You have to preface each MP3 file name with a number in the sequence you
want them to play because data files are sorted alphabetically.
Additionally, each number must have as many places as there are MP3s on a
particular CD; i.e., if each CD is going to have more than one hundred, the
numbers must have three places...001...010...099...121...etc.

The easiest way to do that is with a useful little program written by an
habitue of this group. It is named M3Util and can be found at...
http://www.fortunecity.com/meltingpot/hornsey/515/Software/Windows/M3Util/


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