MP3 to CD

[karunamayi]

We have many, many MP3's and I would like to play them in my van which only has a CD player.

The songs are loaded in a playlist on Windows and I can do the same on Itunes. Nero, even.

But.... HOW do I convert the file from MP3 to a CD???

I swear.... I have no idea how I have made it this far in life... lol

[gfrach]

Some newer cd players will play mp3 cds. There is a way to convert. If no one else answers, I'll ask my DH when he gets up. He just did it for me so I had thunder sound effects for my wand shop.

[Sarah]

We have many, many MP3's and I would like to play them in my van which only has a CD player.

The songs are loaded in a playlist on Windows and I can do the same on Itunes. Nero, even.

But.... HOW do I convert the file from MP3 to a CD???

I swear.... I have no idea how I have made it this far in life... lol

You don't. You just burn an audio disc. You don't need to convert anything.

[karunamayi]

but then it will only copy it from MP3 to MP3, no?

[karunamayi]

no, I've tried... my van only does cd. Thanks.

[Sarah]

but then it will only copy it from MP3 to MP3, no?

I don't think so, no. An audio data disc holds a lot more tracks than an audio cd and plays differently. For example, if I burn a cd through a program that allows me to use the whole 700 MB (or whatever the brand allows) it can be something like 30 mp3 tracks. And when I click "burn CD" in iTunes it will burn an audio CD of only 12 tracks or so before the one hour (or 80 minutes, again depending upon the brand) is used up.

[Storymama]

No, it converts it to a proper audio CD. If you want a CD of MP3 files, then you burn as a data disk, not audio. (Which is not what you want, so burn and audio disk.)

[indigo]

We have many, many MP3's and I would like to play them in my van which only has a CD player.

The songs are loaded in a playlist on Windows and I can do the same on Itunes. Nero, even.

But.... HOW do I convert the file from MP3 to a CD???

I swear.... I have no idea how I have made it this far in life... lol

My old van had a CD player that could never play CDs that I burned from my computer. Didn't matter how I burned them. My new van has no problem with them. It depends partly on how old the CD player is.

[lunita]

Yep, you need a cd player that is cd-r compatible, and a car radio that is more than a few years old probably isn't. :(

I play my mp3 play through a radio tuner. If you have a cassette player in your van you can use a cassette thingie to plug in an mp3 player, too.

[karunamayi]

ya, my van doesn't have a problem with computer made cd's. Only mp3 disabled. Thanks.

[sari]

Hmmm... I can only help if you're willing to use iTunes, because I'm now on a Mac platform, so I don't know Windows stuff at all anymore... But iTunes is pretty much the same on all computers...

What you need to do is this:

1. Open iTunes.
2. Go to your File menu, open 'Edit', then 'Preferences', then click on the 'Advanced' tab. Click on the 'Burning' tab.
3. Ensure that the box entitled 'AUDIO CD' is checked.
4. Click OK.
5. Make, or select a playlist of songs you want to burn. About 20 will fit on a standard blank CD. Any more than that and it's going to ask for multiple cds, which is a bit of a pain, imo.
6. Click on the playlist, right click, and select 'Burn playlist to disk'.
7. Follow the instructions that appear after that, and there ya go!!

Enjoy! :dance:

[karunamayi]

oh wow.... i appreciate that SO much! Thank you!

[sari]

No problem - glad to help! :)

[karunamayi]

ok, really... i am so technically frustrated! I can't seem to import from the MP3 to the playlist as a group, only individually. I *have* to be missing something!

[sari]

ok, really... i am so technically frustrated! I can't seem to import from the MP3 to the playlist as a group, only individually. I *have* to be missing something!

Ok. If I understand correctly, you're trying to grab a bunch of tunes and toss them onto a playlist at the same time - yes?

If so, what you need to do is this:

Click on each of the song titles in the 'big' window in iTunes, while holding down the <ctrl> key. Then, while still holding <ctrl>, drag them into the playlist on the left hand side.

If they are all in a row (i.e. you want all the songs off one album, and they're listed together), you can just hold down the <shift> key, while selecting the top one, and then the bottom one, and pulling them over. It should highlight all of the ones in between as well.

If that doesn't help, then let me know what you're trying to do and I'll try to give better instructions. :)