Burning CD's from iTunes to play in Car ??

[Macster]

Its yonks since I burned any new music onto a CD to play in the Car, - from a Mac, - can anyone remind me pls ?

I'm using a Mac, and iTunes etc, and if poss, can I use a DVD-R so that I can get loads of tracks on etc ?

If I drag tracks across from iTunes onto the Disc, they appear to move across in MP3 format etc, but presumably wont play on my Car CD in that form ?

 

[Aztecs27]

Depends what stereo you have in your car. If you have one that plays Data discs, you should be fine but you'll probably have to burn a CD-R rather than a DVD-R.

What car and stereo do you have?

 

[Macster]

EClass Merc with a MB Comand system, which does play DVD's, although I never have !

 

[Aztecs27]

Hmm. Ok. Best bet would be to burn a data DVD of songs (using a standard CD writing program (iTunes may burn Data CDs, but I'm not sure whether it does, I would check in preferences and in the "burning" tab.

I've used "Burn" for Mac before. "Toast" is the best, but costs money.

Then try and see if it reads the disc. Sounds like it should from what I've just read around the internet from a quick google search.

I would recommend burning the files in organised folders (i.e. just drag and drop the folders you want from your iTunes Music folder) to keep it all organised when searching for songs!

Hope that helps.

 

[Lump]

Drag the Album you want (or selection of songs) into a playlist. You can then burn the playlist to a CD in either CD format or MP3 format.

Cant be any easier way than in itunes
(Im on a Mac too)

 

[Macster]

Thx Fella's, I'd forgotten to you had to drag into a playlist first.

I dragged a shedload of tracks onto a DVD-R, told it to write across to DVDR, and ended up with the Car system only being able to read/play the MP3, and nothing else.

Most of the tracks show in iTunes as AAC files, but info shows them as .m4a files......so I guess I need to convert them all to mp3's and do the whole process again ??

jezuz