Hey guys this thread is closed...only God knows why.
http://forums.corvetteforum.com/show...=itunes+folder

Any way, the pics are not there any more and I need some instruction on how to do this. I'm not very familiar with iTunes, I have it but I don't use it very much.

Can someone give me a step by step on this? I can figure out the ACC stuff.

 

I started that thread orginally - maybe Ishould post an updated one? Let me know if anyone here would like more info than below...

Basically, iTunes will work fine (mostly )for burning your MP3s .. if you want to have folders (say for multiple CDs or Albums) do a SORT by ALBUM NAME right before you burn. If you want all your songs in a single folder (say for example, you have a bunch of Metal songs, or ROCK or Jazz and want one disk that randomizes the play) do a sort by song title before you burn.

Some notes on using itunes - this assumes you already have the files imported into iTUNEs and are in MP3 format ...

1. You may want to rename the actual song file names (within windows explorer - outside of iTUNES) ...to something shorter.

2. Within iTunes, create a NEW playlist (hit the + key lower left side) for the CD you wish to make.

3. Add the songs you want on the CD to the playlist - a number of ways to do this including right clicking the song(s) in question and using SHOW IN PLAYLIST - or just drag them to the new playlist.

4. Make sure all the song titles, artist names, etc are no more than 22 characters.

5. When you have all the songs in the playlist, and are ready to burn - select them all then RIGHT CLICK the mouse - CONVERT ID3 tags and use V1.0 or V1.1.

6. Click on the NAME column to sort by name if you want ONE FOLDER with all songs - click on the ALBUM column if you want iTunes to put your songs in folders by album name.

7. Go to EDIT - Preferences - ADVANCED - BURNING - make sure itunes uses MP3 as output type - also maybe select 1X or 2X for burn speed as the stereo is fussy on this depending on media type.

Those are the basics.

 

thank you, I'll read your notes when I get home and try this and report back. I appreciate your help!

 

feel free to email me or pm me with any questions you have.

 

I just used iTunes to burn an MP3 CD for listening to in the car with 122 songs on it. This is a great feature of the car stereo - it sure beats popping single CDs in and out and only being able to listen to 10 songs at once.

 

or perhaps a Mod...may wanna PM one before asking these questions...

I will venture to guess because its an old thread and the pics are no longer working...

 

Hmm ok I just tried this, I went through your steps and began to burn. After a few minutes I got "An unknown error has occured" and it ejected the disc. Disc wouldn't work in my car.

Any idea? I tried to burn at 2x..maybe I will try 1x?

 

Hmmmnnn ... hard to say - but may be with the CDs you are using? Or might you have been doing something else on the PC? Try rebooting, only running iTunes, and try a different brand of CDs maybe.

 

ok I will...I just tried it again using 1x at it finished the CD this time but still wouldn't work in my car.

 

The max is 255 songs as long as you keep your song titles short. I've never tried 255, but I have made and played several with well over 200 songs.

 

ok tried it again and it still didn't work. I used a different brand CD too. I also tried to play the CD on my PC and it worked just fine...so I'm stumped.

Does the 22 character rule have to be 22...or is that just if you want to name of the song to show up on that particular song?

Things never work the 1st time around for me!

 

I use an iPod mini and a FM tuner that works thru the cigarette lighter. Always wondered if my music would sound better burned to a CD in mp3's. I listen to a lot of podcast(some updated daily) also that I download to my iPod... So for me using a CDRW vs CDR would be better. I'd like to use the same disk over and over and just update/ burn the new data to the disk... I have lots and lots of music so I'd like to be able use the disk like a hard drive/ save some old stuff and swap out some older stuff w/o having to burn a whole new disk.
Has anyone tried this with a CDRW?

 

Here is detailed information that I posted a while back.

http://forums.corvetteforum.com/show....php?t=1470774

Martin

 

Didn't know he was a moderator.

 

I used Nero and all I had to do was pick make MP3 CD and then choose the songs I wanted, burned and then put into the Vette. Worked first time. I never even had to change the song titles.

 

CDRW is not mentioned in my '05 manual.
I don't use them because, CD-R's are so cheap.
And all my home made CD's scratch up so quickly, I'm tossing them out so frequently.
MP3's sound the same from an MP3 player or CD, all the same data, but CD's tend to scratch, skip and mess up more.

 

All threads close after a length of inactivity.

 

Thanks for the info...I'm going to try Nero then!

 

You may want to check the titles to your songs. I was having a similar problem when I first started using itunes. It turned out that I had a couple of apostrophe's in some of the song titles, the main file title too, and for some reason it doesn't like those and will give you an error.

As far as burning speeds, I burn as fast as it will allow and have yet to have an issue with any of the cd's. 150 songs burn in less than 5 minutes.

Hope that helps.

 

Ahh then yes that is my problem. Many of the songs on the list had some of these cahracters through out them. ( ) ' "

I'll fix that tonight!