Posted by NRen2k5 on 06/25/06 17:32

dadiOH wrote:
> 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/

The author might want to change the name of his software, as people are
bound to confuse it with Peter Smith's "MP3Utility" which was written
even before 2000.

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