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Burning Multi Session MP3s
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I've just got a car with an MP3 player in it, so I burned some of my favourite tracks onto MP3. It gave me the option to leave it open as a multi session disk, so I did. It played with no problem, and I then went on to add 2 more tracks onto it. yesterday They burned onto the disk, they're there, slotted into the existing tracks where they should be alphabetically, but when I put the disk in my car MP3 player it's as though they aren't on it. I've checked through the disk in case they were just added on at the end rather than put between the already burned tracks, but they just aren't there. I put the disk in my computer, and there they are! Am I doing something wrong? I thought if it allowed me to burn them onto the existing disk they'd play, otherwise it would have said it couldn't add them in the first place? Won't an MP3 player read data added after the initial burn even if it's done as a multi session disk? Please excuse me if I'm asking something totally stupid! Thanks.
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.It all depends on the car cd player mfr. Some are better than others, but multi session discs are not guaranteed to work as you have found out.
I tried this myself when I got a Clarion mp3 car cd and could get it to work sometimes but the discs became iffy, tracks would disappearsemmingly at ramndom but later I ound it was the later additions that went 'missing'. Your best bet is to either save up enough mp3s to fill a CD or use a rewriteable CDR and redo it each time you add tracks. Takes a bit longer but the tracks are there when you want to listen to them
I tried this myself when I got a Clarion mp3 car cd and could get it to work sometimes but the discs became iffy, tracks would disappearsemmingly at ramndom but later I ound it was the later additions that went 'missing'. Your best bet is to either save up enough mp3s to fill a CD or use a rewriteable CDR and redo it each time you add tracks. Takes a bit longer but the tracks are there when you want to listen to them
Ethel - sorry, I meant burning mp3 tracks onto a CD as data rather than audio.
Pug - never thought of that. Of course, I can use a CDRW and just erase and rewrite as it's data and doesn't have to be a closed session. I'll do that I think. As you say, it takes a bit longer but if it works it's worth the extra few minutes. Thanks.
Pug - never thought of that. Of course, I can use a CDRW and just erase and rewrite as it's data and doesn't have to be a closed session. I'll do that I think. As you say, it takes a bit longer but if it works it's worth the extra few minutes. Thanks.
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