Built in CD Mp3 CD's

[Pottsy]

dtm, welcome!

This has to be an encoding issue - are the skipping one encoded at the same bitrate as the non skippers? Or encoded using different software? To eliminate the disc, you could try re-burning and seeing if the skipping ones are the same on the two discs.

[basegreen]

Guessing it's a CDR issue.

[WoolyCiv]

Been playing a cd with multiple folders and albums (All mp3's) to-day with no problems at all.

[Ancient Nerd]

No problems with mine. Only slight whinge is that it takes a while to start playing at startup , and after an interruption ( traffic info etc. ). Otherwise it really is very good

[Bungle]

I have had some problems with the CDs...

I have only tried WMA format using Media Player to encode the tracks. When I tried to create the CD, Media Player insisted in shoving all the tracks into the root of the CD. Annoying with 100+ tracks with no folders!
Secondly, if I just use Windows to create the CD, no matter what I do; the folders are arranged alphabetically. I cannot seem to stop this happening. I was trying to make a CD of one band, and I wanted their albums (folders) in chronological order, but now they are just alphabetical.
Thirdly, every once in a while, a loud crackly sort of sound, similar to noise on an unused radio frequency, but more harsh, comes through. It comes through loed and is enough to make me jump when it occurs during quiter moments.

Anybody had a similar problem or have any ideas of how I might fix it.

Thinking about it more, I'd like a control on the wheel to change folders or display. To be honest, thought, I find myself using the dash controls more then the wheel ones unless I think about it.

[WoolyCiv]

A good MP3 encoder is MediaMonkey http://www.mediamonkey.com/, if you do a google search you will find ways of using the full version

[dtm316]

Cheers Pottsy. I was guessing it was an encoding issue. I've downloaded mediamonkey to aid in the tagging of tracks do you know if this can re-encode existing mp3's?

Scrub that, I've just had a play around and I think I've figured it out

[richierich]

Noticed the other day that media player can change the tag info on tracks, but I guess the tags need changing before burning to CD, rather than on the host machine, otherwise it will screw them up for good. I have created a folder for the MP3 I wanted to burn and then changed tag info that way. ball-aching job, still not found anyway of renaming/editing multiple tracks

[Ancient Nerd]

I use a program called Magic File Renamer. This allows some extremely complex renames to be done, including filenames, MP3 tags etc.. The standard version is sufficient.

It costs (I think) $15, but the demo version has full functionality and allows 100 rename operations. Given that I have very rarely needed more than one rename operation to make all the changes I need to the tracks of an audio book, including filenames and MP3 tags, this goes a long way. (Typically this involves 100-200 file renames etc as one operation).

Details are at http://www.finebytes.com/mfr

[Pottsy]

Or the excellent, free TagScanner that does everything you can think of. Homepage can be a bit slow, but you can download here.

[Ancient Nerd]

If it's only the tags you want to change, then TagScanner wins hands down. I have it, but rarely use it, only because I tend to do a lot of general file renaming anyway.

[dtm316]

OK tried my new disc after using the re-encode option in mediamonkey and it works fine now thanks Pottsy. For those that may have come across this problem, you can highlight the track in mediamonkey and then select Tools along the top and then re-encode, I accepted the default encode setting (compatible 128bit) and the option to use the same filename and it works a treat.

[kho]

Just a quick note. If you er... get your mp3 collection from other "resources". They sometimes come with a playlist or images of the album cover etc. When you copy the folder to cd make sure these files don't get copied to the disc, you only want the ".mp3/.wma" files. (Folders are ok)

I had a problem where my cd player couldn't read the disc bcos it kept hanging on these alien files and or weird folder names.

[allan40alt]

I used 'mp3 maker - titanium' by 'magix' (cost £9.99) to convert my 12 most played audio cd's into mp3 format and then created a playlist and transferred them onto one mp3 CD. I had to enter the ID3 tags manually and put a, b, c etc in front of each album title so that they appear in the order I want. All the album, track and artist info comes up in the display on my EX. That gives me 12 albums (and a couple of singles) on one CD.

[stu_iow]

I use a piece of software called "Tag&Rename".

I used to use it for a MP3 player i used to have in my Clio.

You can change file names, tag details either singlely or by batch using "mask" methods.

[k10]

Bungle - The only way I've been able to get round this is to prefix the folder names with a 1. , 2. , 3. , etc. to make them list in my chosen order.

Has anyone noticed a fault where the first track in a folder does not always correctly display the track name (I seem to recall it shows the artist name or something else) as soon as you go to track 2 all is back to normal.

[spile]

has anyone had a problem with some .mp3's skipping/jumping very frequently during playback

It might be worth trying different media to see if that is the issue.

In terms of what to use, I find the Itunes (it is free and you don't need an IPOD) is the best for me. It allows you do manage your MP3s, edit ID information and burn playlists to CD. It even prompts you to add additional blanck CDs when you need more than one.

TiP: Itunes normally creates folders on your CD representing Artists/Albums depending on what you've sorted you media by.
If you sort by Track title it creates all the MP3s to the root with no folders.

Tip2: The shy Disp button to the left of the CD slot allows you to toggle what is displayed on screen.