Making an MP3 CD?

[zoombini]

Hi, my son has just got himself a personal CD player that also plays MP3's.
It has a little LCD screen that also tells him the name of the track when searching through it.

Yet the instructions are not too clear on what format the filenames should be when creating a CD for it.

Can I use folders or do they all have to be in the root, do I get to include the album name etc?

Cheers,

P.S. I will be using Nero6 to do it.

[zoombini]

Can I just copy my WMP folders, remove the folder & album art stuff & have:
artist folder\album folder\tracknumber-trackname.wma
??

(it plays .wma files as well as MP3 & I already have them as .wma)

[zoombini]

Bump....

Please, can someone help with this, I'd like to burn it before I go home.

[Neil]

I think Nero 6 does all that for you.

Start the wizard if unsure, & I'm sure there's an option to create an MP3 CD, in which case all you need to do is drag/drop relevant tracks & folders.

HTH.

[Jon M]

The mp3 filename is largely unimportant... the track and artist are taken from whats called the "ID3 tag". If the PC displays the details correctly, then the mp3 player should too.

[bob_builder]

If the CD player is like all the other MP3 CD players I have used then it will play any MP3 it finds in any directory (up to three deep, I think) in alphabetical order (directory, directory, ..., trackname).

So you could organise your tracks like this:

ArtistName1
 - AlbumName1
   - TrackName1
   - TrackName2
   ...
 - AlbumName2
   - TrackName1
   ...
 - AlbumName3
 ...
ArtistName2
...

and it would play the tracks in the above order.

[zoombini]

Thanks Bob.
Thats how I have made an image, so now I can burn it & see tonight.

Cheers.