HELP Burning a CD from iTunes for 09HD
Road Warrior
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From: Melissa, TX
and they ALL have to be in the ROOT directory. (almost forgot that)
so if you have them in SUB DIRECTORIES, it's not gonna work.
so even if i have ~100 songs on a cd, and only 4 are in the root directory, guess how many songs you have for a 4 hour ride?
one per hour!!
hth?
so if you have them in SUB DIRECTORIES, it's not gonna work.
so even if i have ~100 songs on a cd, and only 4 are in the root directory, guess how many songs you have for a 4 hour ride?
one per hour!!
hth?
I have 200+ songs on a CD, all in nested sub directories like \Artist\AlbumName\SongName.mp3 and my HD-HK radio plays every single one of them, flawlessly.
All I did was download them from Napster or iTunes, strip the DRM with TuneBite (resampled all songs during DRM strip to no more than 128kbps MP3's), burned them to a data CD at 16x burn speed (fastest the burner I had on that machine at the time would burn) using Nero 7, and closed the CD when finished.
That's it. No voodoo, no secret handshakes with the computer, no praying to Norse gods, nothing.
Its not the radio, its the user.
Songs bought on Itunes are not allowed to be burnt onto a CD without some sort of go around. You paid to listen to them on Itunes or Ipod, and thats pretty much it. It doesnt matter which settings you try to burn them at, it wont work.
Tunebite and a monthy subscription to napster will give you all the music you would ever want...pretty much all of it at your fingertips
Songs bought on Itunes are not allowed to be burnt onto a CD without some sort of go around. You paid to listen to them on Itunes or Ipod, and thats pretty much it. It doesnt matter which settings you try to burn them at, it wont work.
Tunebite and a monthy subscription to napster will give you all the music you would ever want...pretty much all of it at your fingertips
Last edited by Phurion; Dec 16, 2008 at 08:49 AM.
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It sounds to me like some of you guys are Music "gurus" and well beyond my knowledge and capabilities. I asked this question only because there was another decent thread about burning music and several guys there said iTunes was no problem but upon questioning the thread (and them personally via PM) nobody answered. I guess I'll have to settle for 15-16 songs per CD (which do play) burned as music files. I was hoping to condense several CDs to one CD but it sounds quite difficult, if not expensive even. Most of my music was purchased from iTunes and although there is an MP3 option when burning, I keep getting errors saying that none of my music can be converted to MP3. My only option it seems is to burn as Music or as Text and Text just don't play...
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It sounds to me like some of you guys are Music "gurus" and well beyond my knowledge and capabilities. I asked this question only because there was another decent thread about burning music and several guys there said iTunes was no problem but upon questioning the thread (and them personally via PM) nobody answered. I guess I'll have to settle for 15-16 songs per CD (which do play) burned as music files. I was hoping to condense several CDs to one CD but it sounds quite difficult, if not expensive even. Most of my music was purchased from iTunes and although there is an MP3 option when burning, I keep getting errors saying that none of my music can be converted to MP3. My only option it seems is to burn as Music or as Text and Text just don't play...
What's the exact error message your seeing when you try and burn the CD as an MP3 file?
What's the exact process your using. Be very detailed in describing this since we're not able to look over your shoulder and see if your doing something "weird".
This really is not hard to do, we just have to get you through it once. Then it will become old hat really fast.
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My music is all mostoy purchased via iTunes.
I think I have version iTunes 8
I created a "playlist" with the songs I want to burn.
I hit BURN CD
A Dialog box appears and at the top it prompts me to pick a maximum speed to burn at:
1X
2X
4X
6X
8X
12X
16X
20X
24X
MAXIMUM POSSIBLE
I leave it set at the default of MAXIMUM (not knowing the difference etc.)
Then it asks me to further choose one of three formats:
AUDIO CD
MP3 CD
DATA CD
I pick MP3
It then checks the playlist and another dialog box appears saying that none of the songs can be burned to an MP3 CD, and looking at the details for each song it further says each is an iTunes store file and cannot be burned to an MP3 CD.
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Now if I burn as a DATA CD, it does burn them, but the CD will not play in my Bike, which is an 09 w/ Harmon Khardon stereo. AND I can also burn AUDIO CDs that work on the bike too, but they only hold about 14-16 songs each CD. I wanted to make one with roughly 70-80 songs..
I think I have version iTunes 8
I created a "playlist" with the songs I want to burn.
I hit BURN CD
A Dialog box appears and at the top it prompts me to pick a maximum speed to burn at:
1X
2X
4X
6X
8X
12X
16X
20X
24X
MAXIMUM POSSIBLE
I leave it set at the default of MAXIMUM (not knowing the difference etc.)
Then it asks me to further choose one of three formats:
AUDIO CD
MP3 CD
DATA CD
I pick MP3
It then checks the playlist and another dialog box appears saying that none of the songs can be burned to an MP3 CD, and looking at the details for each song it further says each is an iTunes store file and cannot be burned to an MP3 CD.
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Now if I burn as a DATA CD, it does burn them, but the CD will not play in my Bike, which is an 09 w/ Harmon Khardon stereo. AND I can also burn AUDIO CDs that work on the bike too, but they only hold about 14-16 songs each CD. I wanted to make one with roughly 70-80 songs..
Last edited by RODEO; Dec 16, 2008 at 05:00 PM.
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From: Austin Tx
Ok, so that confirms what the some of the guys above said. You cannot burn songs purchased from itunes as an MP3 file. Burning them as a data disk will also not work because it is the wrong format.
-Sorry!
-Sorry!
Road Master
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itunes bought songs are only good for 5 uses......
put on an ipod..... one use
burn to cd data......use two
burn an audio cd.... use three
use all 5 and you cannot even listen to it anymore........
Burn wisely.........
put on an ipod..... one use
burn to cd data......use two
burn an audio cd.... use three
use all 5 and you cannot even listen to it anymore........
Burn wisely.........
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So, aside from running to the store and buying CDs from various Artists, WHERE do you guys buy your music that allows you to burn them as MP3s???????????????????????????????????
I'll reiterate what I said earlier in this thread. iTunes seems to really SUCK!
I'll reiterate what I said earlier in this thread. iTunes seems to really SUCK!
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It sounds to me like some of you guys are Music "gurus" and well beyond my knowledge and capabilities. I asked this question only because there was another decent thread about burning music and several guys there said iTunes was no problem but upon questioning the thread (and them personally via PM) nobody answered. I guess I'll have to settle for 15-16 songs per CD (which do play) burned as music files. I was hoping to condense several CDs to one CD but it sounds quite difficult, if not expensive even. Most of my music was purchased from iTunes and although there is an MP3 option when burning, I keep getting errors saying that none of my music can be converted to MP3. My only option it seems is to burn as Music or as Text and Text just don't play...
I don't use itunes, so I can't help you much with it. But I can tell you from my experience that the files have to be mp3 format for the HK. If you can convert them somehow to mp3 then you could use the cookbook method I outlined in that other thread.
I found some file converters online, buth nothing decent and free. I'm sort of cheap so I hate to buy software and find out it doesn't work. I don't mind paying after I've used it if I know it does the job for me.
All the music I listen to I've personally ripped from my own CD's. I just don't have the time or energy to download from napster or morpheus or whatever.
Anyway, hopefully others can help you with the itunes problems.