Need help burning MP3 cd's...

[bubbagumper6]

I'm running an Alpine 9886 and for the life of me can't burn a proper MP3 cd. I mean, I can burn a cd, that's not the problem, I just can't seem to burn a cd that my player will read properly. It wont keep the songs in order. I read somewhere that the 9886 will play the songs in the order that they were written to the disk...so you would think if my MP3's are numbered that it would burn them in order but usually I get something like 1, 10, 2, 3, 4, 5, etc. Or 1, 8, 9, 10, 11, 2, 3, 4, etc. So wtf do I do? Anyone know how I can get my burner to burn the songs in order? :crap:

[uz1290]

When you mean mp3 cd do you mean like the actual data mp3 cd which burns to memory rather than minutes thus giving you a shitload of songs or you mean the file format? If you mean like the data disc i would just open up the drive where the cd was located and drag the songs i wanted onto there, then it would give me an option to burn the files onto the disc using the memory not minutes. As for order i never had that problem it would just arrange alphabetically, but idk what your situation is man :(

[bubbagumper6]

Yes, MP3 cd as in data cd, as in directly burning the files to the disk. Once again, I have no problem burning all kinds of cds. The problem is the order that the burner burns them to the disk.

[misfit138]

Probably has to do with the file info for each track. A lot of times when you download music, the ID tags are incorrect. That can screw everything up when trying to organize mp3s on a disc, ipod, zune, etc.

[uz1290]

Yea ive made plenty of those but never had that problem with arrangement, have you tried it like in a dvd player to see if the order changes? What software are you using to burn the disc?

[bubbagumper6]

Probably has to do with the file info for each track. A lot of times when you download music, the ID tags are incorrect. That can screw everything up when trying to organize mp3s on a disc, ipod, zune, etc.

I correct all my ID3 tags. For some reason when it goes to organize them by filename it puts any tracks between 10-19 right after 1. So the track numbering would go like this for a cd with 16 tracks:
1
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9

[misfit138]

Do it like this, holmes.

01
02
03
etc, etc, etc...

[uz1290]

Do it like this, holmes.

01
02
03
etc, etc, etc...

Yup same thing i was about to suggest :)

[whitedragon551]

He just has to change the sort order in the folder to sort correctly.