burn songs in my order instead of alphabetical order, how?

[Waheeba]

I want to burn a data cd with mp3s on it. But no matter what order I arrange
the songs, they get burned to cd in alphabetical format. If I use Windows
Media Player to make a music cd instead of a data cd, I can arrange the
songs and burn them in any order I want. How can I do this with a data cd
using Windows Explorer? Any free burner that will allow me to do this?

 

[Phil]

Try rename the songs using numbers to start the names, then when they
arrange in alphabetical order they will go the way you want.
Example:
01 My Song.mp3
02 My Song.mp3

 

[Ionizer]

I want to burn a data cd with mp3s on it. But no matter what order I arrange
the songs, they get burned to cd in alphabetical format. If I use Windows
Media Player to make a music cd instead of a data cd, I can arrange the
songs and burn them in any order I want. How can I do this with a data cd
using Windows Explorer? Any free burner that will allow me to do this?

You need to rename the files with a three-digit numerical prefix: 001, 002
003,... 010, 011, etc. Or, if these tracks are the contents of full albums,
you can just create a folder for each album, put the mp3 files into the
folders, and then burn the folders to a data disc. The contents of each
folder will remain in their original sequence.

 

[Jim Macklin]

What burning software do you have besides the XP default or
how much are you will to spend. Look at www.sourceforge.net
and search Google. You can get a plug-in for WMP to burn
MP3s. I think MusicMatch will do it.

A data CD won't be in tracks and will sound terrible when
played back.


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| I want to burn a data cd with mp3s on it. But no matter
what order I arrange
| the songs, they get burned to cd in alphabetical format.
If I use Windows
| Media Player to make a music cd instead of a data cd, I
can arrange the
| songs and burn them in any order I want. How can I do this
with a data cd
| using Windows Explorer? Any free burner that will allow me
to do this?
|
|

 

[Ionizer]

A data CD won't be in tracks and will sound terrible when
played back.

What do you mean by that? If you burn a data CD full of mp3 files, that
data disc will play the mp3 files back precisely as they sounded when played
from the hard drive.