Posted by NRen2k5 on 11/16/94 11:51

neo wrote:
> "dadiOH" <dadiOH@guesswhere.com> wrote in message
> news:KLQng.4696$il.3523@trnddc03...
>> neo wrote:
>>> "dadiOH" <dadiOH@guesswhere.com> wrote in message
>>> news:KFang.1093$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.
>>
>>
>> --
>>
>> dadiOH
>
>
>
> I spent some time trying to find where Creative stores its playlists
> without luck. Perhaps Creative handles it differently than Winamp?

Hmm... my experience so far with Creative tells me that you putting
playlists on it won't do anything, but you can make playlists in
Creative MediaSource. :|

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