Posted by neo on 06/26/06 00:10

"dadiOH" <dadiOH@guesswhere.com> wrote in message
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> 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/
>
>
> --
>
> dadiOH


I don't think this works with Creative. The best that I have been able
to come up with is to use Creative to transfer the files into a temp
folder and then burn that.

Any other ideas?

neo

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