MP3 Disc - What to do in order to play them ?
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Re the Mac discussions above, it is perfectly possible maintain and burn your content from "folders" in iTunes - iTunes playlists and (and the very powerful) smart playlists. These are maintained virtually and do not change the underlying folder structure of your music library (i.e. if you create a playlist and fill it with content then iTunes does not need to create multiple copies of that same content). Or you could just click "new folder" in the menu (but that folder is for organizing playlists, not individual songs, which you would just manage as a playlist as I mention above).
If you want to burn an MP3 disc using iTunes from a playlist containing multiple artists, just sort the playlist by artist before you burn - and the MP3 disc you create will be organized, and viewable in iDrive, by folders.
If you want to burn an MP3 disc using iTunes from a playlist containing multiple artists, just sort the playlist by artist before you burn - and the MP3 disc you create will be organized, and viewable in iDrive, by folders.
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Originally Posted by swajames' post='337190' date='Sep 21 2006, 03:25 PM
Re the Mac discussions above, it is perfectly possible maintain and burn your content from "folders" in iTunes - iTunes playlists and (and the very powerful) smart playlists. These are maintained virtually and do not change the underlying folder structure of your music library (i.e. if you create a playlist and fill it with content then iTunes does not need to create multiple copies of that same content). Or you could just click "new folder" in the menu (but that folder is for organizing playlists, not individual songs, which you would just manage as a playlist as I mention above).
If you want to burn an MP3 disc using iTunes from a playlist containing multiple artists, just sort the playlist by artist before you burn - and the MP3 disc you create will be organized, and viewable in iDrive, by folders.
If you want to burn an MP3 disc using iTunes from a playlist containing multiple artists, just sort the playlist by artist before you burn - and the MP3 disc you create will be organized, and viewable in iDrive, by folders.
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Originally Posted by swajames' post='337190' date='Sep 22 2006, 02:25 AM
Re the Mac discussions above, it is perfectly possible maintain and burn your content from "folders" in iTunes - iTunes playlists and (and the very powerful) smart playlists. These are maintained virtually and do not change the underlying folder structure of your music library (i.e. if you create a playlist and fill it with content then iTunes does not need to create multiple copies of that same content). Or you could just click "new folder" in the menu (but that folder is for organizing playlists, not individual songs, which you would just manage as a playlist as I mention above).
If you want to burn an MP3 disc using iTunes from a playlist containing multiple artists, just sort the playlist by artist before you burn - and the MP3 disc you create will be organized, and viewable in iDrive, by folders.
If you want to burn an MP3 disc using iTunes from a playlist containing multiple artists, just sort the playlist by artist before you burn - and the MP3 disc you create will be organized, and viewable in iDrive, by folders.
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By default your playlist is sorted based on the order in which the tracks were added. Before you burn the disc, click on the "artist" column in the playlist view so your playlist is sorted by artist name in alphabetical order. This should give your disc a main "root" view showing artists and underlying tracks are organized in album folders. FWIW I use a Mac but the windows version of iTunes should be functionally identical. This also works for a playlist comprising multiple albums by a single artist, sort the playlist by artist before you burn the MP3 disc and you should also get these albums viewable as folders on the iDrive display. As an example I burned an Oasis disc with 5 or 6 individual albums and the albums were viewable as separate folders. I'm just getting over some surgery for the last couple of days but if I can I will try and get out and burn a disc tomorrow to show you guys. Good luck!
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Originally Posted by aybeesea' post='337314' date='Sep 22 2006, 01:48 AM
It's really easy with Nero under Windows...
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I can confirm swajames description of iTunes process working on PC/windows. Doing as he says organizes folders by Artist, then albums within each artist, then songs within each album. I only see the artists name at the top level, as once you drill down to the song only the song title is shown.
Here is a link previously posted by cpd1 to a Apple iTunes site that describes what swajames was saying.
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=60931
Here is a link previously posted by cpd1 to a Apple iTunes site that describes what swajames was saying.
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=60931
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Originally Posted by aybeesea' post='337314' date='Sep 21 2006, 10:48 PM
It's really easy with Nero under Windows...
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Originally Posted by swajames' post='337310' date='Sep 22 2006, 06:10 AM
By default your playlist is sorted based on the order in which the tracks were added.
Surely you can drag the order of tracks into any order you wish even after you've added them to the "playlist"? What is the concept of "time track was added"? And for IDrive, what is the concept of a "playlist"?
AFAICS (and please correct me) there seems to be only one order of displaying MP3s by IDrive and that's alphabetically. Can this order be changed?
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Originally Posted by aybeesea' post='337451' date='Sep 22 2006, 07:54 AM
Hmmm... Not sure I understand this.
Surely you can drag the order of tracks into any order you wish even after you've added them to the "playlist"? What is the concept of "time track was added"? And for IDrive, what is the concept of a "playlist"?
AFAICS (and please correct me) there seems to be only one order of displaying MP3s by IDrive and that's alphabetically. Can this order be changed?
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Surely you can drag the order of tracks into any order you wish even after you've added them to the "playlist"? What is the concept of "time track was added"? And for IDrive, what is the concept of a "playlist"?
AFAICS (and please correct me) there seems to be only one order of displaying MP3s by IDrive and that's alphabetically. Can this order be changed?
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Re the order in iDrive, I'll have to check but I think it's possible to set the order that tracks apear within folders but you have do all of this before you burn. Once you've made your choice and burned the disc then that's what you get - there are no view options selectable within iDrive. That's essentially why we need to do some work beforehand to set up the folder and directory structure to make the disc more usable once it's burned.