I've never checked, do these cars play .mp3 files burned to a CD in the CD player? I'm not talking about burning .mp3 files TO an Audio CD, but raw .mp3 files. My old Mustang does, also my trucks. I don't know about wifey's RX, but that should as well.
That would make a difference, 150-200 songs per disk instead of 10-12 per each.

 

I gotta laugh when I read these posts on the Jag sound system or the MP3 files or iphone/pod stuff and even the usb port. Why I laugh is it shows how I had gone into dinosaur mode after retiring . I don't have a tune list and there is no tunes on my android phone. I must admit I do text . As for the radio I think it is great for my use as it plays various oldies stations along with various talk radio stations. Now my big problem is what do I do with all of the 45's I had for my car record player and how about my 8-tracks along with my cassettes. Next will be the demise of my CD's as my 2016 pick up doesn't even have a CD player. Well next thing you know they'll have driverless cars . Enjoy the ride.

 

Yes it does.
You can even make multiple folders it will open up every one of them
It supports text from the mp3 files too.

 

Indeed; mp3 files and folders work. What I didn't realize at first (but did after reading the handbook) was the shuffle mode works both for a single folder (press once) and for the entire disc (press and hold).

 

The system in my 2009 XK will play MP3 disks created on my Mac Computer. It will not play mixed files, like both AF & MP3 on the same disk. those will only playback on your computer.

 

Well I never....
runs off to burn a few MP3s

 

How is this done? Can someone point me to some online directions? I know Cee Jay has a thumb drive with 9000 songs, and if I recall, organized by folder so they can be selected by our OEM via ACM. Now I'm hearing the same with CD, though prolly far fewer than a thumb drive but certainly more than the 21 songs that fill an audio CD.

So please, can someone point to a site or video that can show me how to burn that many raw MP3 files?

And while I'm on it, are the files in my iTunes folder raw MP3 (I've converted them from ACC) but what's the difference between a raw MP3 and I guess the alternative would be "cooked":-)

 

What I do is to just drag the MP3 files straight to the CD using windows explorer.
Done a quick search and found this guide for you.
LINKY

 

What I've done, basically:

Choose the mp3 files I want, keeping under the size limit.

Clean up the file names, not entirely sure whether this is necessary or not, but I'm slightly neurotic. Also, the cleaned file names can be used for MP3 tags later. Many ways to do this, easiest perhaps is open command prompt, dir the folder for a list of file names, stick them in Excel or such, add a column for new file name with functions or manual typing, and generate renaming commands in another column. Then just paste the commands in the command prompt.

Use Kid3 Tag Editor to clean up the tags of the files. This ensures the names are alright when viewed on the car. More information here. What I've generally done is export all the tags to an Excel file (or perhaps CSV, can't remember right now), then set up the necessary tags, perhaps clearing all the others. Looks like I've used at least
Album
Album Artist
Artist
Title
v1Album
v1Artist
v1Title

Use MP3Gain on the whole folder, to adjust the volume levels of the files to match one another. This prevents, to a large extent, those "agh my ears" -situations when you go from a more quiet file to a louder file.
More information here and here.

At this point, I've created band-specific (or album-specific if you like that) subfolders and moved the files to them. On the touch screen in the car, you can browse the files, so it's a lot nicer to have a shortcut to a band rather than having to scroll down repeatedly on the slightly laggy screen.

To burn the CD, I've mainly used ImgBurn, choosing to write at a relatively low speed to avoid any issues. I suppose Windows is capable of doing this too nowadays.

 

I've done this in the past but I haven't used Windows in years (except to fix something my wife did on her laptop.) The method in the link is what I've done and the number of MP3's has always been limited to 20 or so. Has that changed?

 

CDs are around 600MB in size and MP3s normally around 3.5MB so you should get far more than 20 on a CD

 

[QUOTE=Aonsaithya;1806280]What I've done, basically:

Choose the mp3 files I want, keeping under the size limit.[QUOTE]
You mean the size limit of the CD I presume?

Thanks

 

Another link Sean
LINKY
It might be that certain CD players will only play MP3s under a certain size or the size of the bitrate (quality of the MP3).
I'll do some burning at some time and report my findings.

 

Those who burn AUDIO CDs from MP3 files change the format to AUD or whatever. The sound doesn't improve with the (much) larger file size than the source. A friend-of-a-friend kept calling me a moron because he said "every CD player can play MP3s!", but then I had to show him one of my disks with 163 songs on it play in my Mustang, then I put that disk into his old boring kenwood in his truck... "INVALID DISK". He said I was stupid and made a bad disk. Some people can't be reasoned with.
Anyway, DON'T "Burn Audio CD", but maintain files as Data.

 

Thanks Cee Jay. I haven't burned a music CD since the 90's, and when I did, it was audio cd's so it's coming back to me slowly and this is helping.

 

OK I figured out how to burn a data CD on my mac and I was able to burn 92 songs from a playlist. The folder shows up in the CD player. Songs start playing. I can shuffle, play next etc, but when I try to select the folder I just get a beep, so no individual songs are visible on the touchscreen, just the folder.

I just dragged a playlist folder over to the burner and didn't name the disc, so maybe that's why I can't see the songs? Is that standard?

 

Did the "playlist folder" you dragged over to the burner have subfolders? So was the result
cd\playlist folder\band1\song.mp3
or
cd\band1\song.mp3
?

I would presume the CD player could handle browsing more than 1 folder deep, but I haven't tried it.

 

Dragged one folder over so it showed CD\Folder Name\

That is all, no band, no song titles. If it does drill down on yours than it certainly should on mine and I just need to burn it differently I think. So are you seeing this on your Jaguar? cd\playlist folder\band1\song.mp3?

 

When I made disks years ago, I just put the files in the root directory, no folders anywhere. Never tried it that way. Sure, the USB drive has a TON of folders (611) and it's a royal pain to go searching for each Artist separately. I do have ALL the songs without folders in the root, AND within each Artist Folder. Therefore, I can just SHUFFLE through all 9,000 OR pick which folder I want. Takes double the space, but now I have easier options. Don't know if Disks do the same.........

 

I've been copying, and burning both MP3 and Audio Files, to a CDR since 2001. I've found that the only titles, that can be copied, are those that were on the original CD. I have the option of adding titles manualy, on my MAC, but it is time consuming and may not work. If you load an original CD that has titles there is no problem with them being displayed on the system's player. If song titles are really that important to you, then use an original CD, and forget making copies.