Posted by dadiOH on 06/26/06 12:51

neo wrote:
> "dadiOH" <dadiOH@guesswhere.com> wrote in message
> news:KFang.1093$Gh.638@trnddc02...
>> 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/

> 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?

A playlist is a playlist. Worst case is that you would have to point M3Util
to a "Winamp directory" (in options) and stash your playlist there.


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