Burning music to a disc... driving me potty. Can any one help?

[marbleapple]

Afternoon all.

 

I have about 80 songs that I am wanting to put onto a CD so that I can listen to then in my car. I have all the song's on iTunes but each time I try copy them onto the disc I have one of the following problems:

 

1. If I try copy it straight onto the 700mb/80 min CD-R there isnt enought "minutes" for all the songs (despite there only being 500mb)

 

2. If I try copy them using the MP3 option, it tells me 70/80 won't be copied as they are not mp3's.

 

3. If I copy the music as just plain data most of the songs can't be listened to.

 

Can anyone advise how the hell I can get the songs onto one disc so that I can actually listen to the music in the car! Do I need discs with more "minutes" or is there a way compress it all onto one disc!

 

Thanks guys!

 

 

P.s. My supra used to have an aux in so I could plug my iphone in. It appears that my Type R (16 years younger) doesn't have that facility and I can't just replace the radio because all the sat nav etc is built into it....

[SupraD06]

Why not buy an iTrip, it plug into the cars cigarette lighter and charges the iphone or ipod like a normal charger, but you select an empty radio station and it plays it through the cars speakers without the aux connection. I use one in mine and its just quick and easy, saves changing cd's too. Search iTrip on ebay

[Mike]

If you try and copy MP3 to a CD as a 'music' CD to play in your car, obviously the files have to be converted - the '80 minutes' they stick on a CD box is usually only a guide. Once the files are converted they might take up more than 700mb, so you'll have less minutes available to you.

 

If you're copying from iTunes and have downloaded track from the iTunes Store, chances are they will be in AAC format, not MP3, hence the error. You can convert them to MP3 in iTunes mind.

 

If you copy the music as just plain data most of the music will be unreadable because (probably) what you're playing them on doesn't do MP3 or AAC.

 

Just convert it into a music CD and put less tracks on in

[Rob]

Why not buy an iTrip, it plug into the cars cigarette lighter and charges the iphone or ipod like a normal charger, but you select an empty radio station and it plays it through the cars speakers without the aux connection. I use one in mine and its just quick and easy, saves changing cd's too. Search iTrip on ebay

 

I have an iTrip, its fu**ing awful. Its a right faff on, you have to re-tune it every time you switch it on and in London there are so many interfereing radio signals that it just gets swamped. £50 wasted.

[MrRalphMan]

1. If I try copy it straight onto the 700mb/80 min CD-R there isnt enought "minutes" for all the songs (despite there only being 500mb)

When I tunes copies the files to the CD as a Music CD, it is the length of the song and not the file size that counts.

 

You'll always only be able to put 80 minutes onto a CD (or 72 if you've the smaller ones).

2. If I try copy them using the MP3 option, it tells me 70/80 won't be copied as they are not mp3's.

If you've ripped them with the default settings in iTunes, then they will be AAC format.

 

3. If I copy the music as just plain data most of the songs can't be listened to.

Unless your CD Player plays MP3's then you won't be able to do this. Also some play MP3's, but not sure if they will play AAC files.

 

Unless you have a headunit that plays MP3's you'll have to burn this music to a number of CD's.

[Gaz6002]

I have an iTrip, its fu**ing awful. Its a right faff on, you have to re-tune it every time you switch it on and in London there are so many interfereing radio signals that it just gets swamped. £50 wasted.

 

also, I found the bracket broke every time I accelerated. Probably best for NA cars only

[stevie_b]

If it were me, assuming your head unit can play MP3s that have been recorded onto a CD, I would convert the iTunes files to MP3 format and burn them onto a CD. This is what I do (all apart from the conversion from iTunes bit, I store my digital songs in MP3 format from the outset) and I can fit at least 10 full albums onto a standard 80min/700MB recordable CD.

[Rob]

also, I found the bracket broke every time I accelerated. Probably best for NA cars only

 

Ooh, you wouldn't let it lie!

[marbleapple]

If it were me, assuming your head unit can play MP3s that have been recorded onto a CD, I would convert the iTunes files to MP3 format and burn them onto a CD. This is what I do (all apart from the conversion from iTunes bit, I store my digital songs in MP3 format from the outset) and I can fit at least 10 full albums onto a standard 80min/700MB recordable CD.

 

Cheers for the responses guys. As always they are appreciated.

 

I went into PC World yesterday and considered spending £50 on an Itrip. Bought a new one off eBay for £11! I will give this a go for the time being.

 

Stevie_b, your idea sounds like what i am wanting to do. How does one rip/convert music to MP3's in Itunes? - I know my car can work folder systems on CD's so I would love to copy more than 1 album onto a disc.

 

I did copy a CD of 15 tunes from itunes (I was hoping for a lot more). I was impressed that the car radio brought up all the Itunes info like track name, artist etc... very clever.

[stevie_b]

Sorry marbleapple, I've never used iTunes so I can't advise on how to get music from it in MP3 format. I find it frustrating that Apple use their own format (AAC) for encoding music digitally, although I guess it's no worse than what Microsoft do with their WMA format. For me, MP3 is the de facto standard, being non-proprietary.

 

You'll probably find that you can get similar info about MP3 tracks (artist, album, title etc): it's called ID3 tagging.

[MrRalphMan]

First thing I do is change the default encoding setting from AAC to MP3 in iTunes, makes transfering the music to by Smart Phone possible.