Posted by neo on 06/26/06 18:54

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



I spent some time trying to find where Creative stores its playlists
without luck. Perhaps Creative handles it differently than Winamp?

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