Bucket Posted September 13, 2012 Since I am a plebe who has no use for a PMP, I often burn MP3 CDs to play in my car. Problem is, the shuffle feature on this ancient stereo isn't nearly as versatile as Windows Media Player is. It'll shuffle one folder and repeat over and over. Is there a way to shuffle tracks as they're being burned? From what I can see the problem that I use (ImgBurn), and probably all burning software, burns in order of track name. There has to be a way to burn them in random order. 0 Share this post Link to post
chungy Posted September 13, 2012 Sounds like you'd rather just put all files into the root directory with no folders. 0 Share this post Link to post
Acid Posted September 13, 2012 From what I can gather, randomize the order on WMP and burn using WMP. 0 Share this post Link to post
Bucket Posted September 13, 2012 Nope. Making a scrambled playlist does not affect the order in which the files are burned. I was hoping for a burning program that had a specific feature. I guess maybe putting all the songs in one folder might be the best recourse. 0 Share this post Link to post
Acid Posted September 13, 2012 That's weird. My version of WMP burns in the order it was dragged in. Maybe because I still run Windows Vista? (Btw, WMP version 11.0.6001.7010, if it makes any difference) 0 Share this post Link to post
Technician Posted September 13, 2012 Mr. T said:Get an iPod shuffle, jesus He says his stereo is ancient so it probably doesn't have an auxiliary port. 0 Share this post Link to post
Jodwin Posted September 13, 2012 Mr. T said:Get an iSomething, jesus Gay. 0 Share this post Link to post
Maes Posted September 13, 2012 Technician said:He says his stereo is ancient so it probably doesn't have an auxiliary port. At least with cassette ones you can use an adaptor cassette. Or, get a decent deck and go back to tape, as I do, music sounds sweeter when you have to "work" on it and cherry-pick what you can fit in 60 or 90 minutes ;-) It's not possible to burn "scrabled" CDs because the CD ISO9660 filesystem standard imposes writing the file directory in alphabetical order. You'd need a non-standard CD burner to get past that. However, you could use an utility to do a pseudo pre-scrambling of a list of files in the following way: read the list of files in any order, scramble it, and rename the files themselves using a numerical prefix. E.g. Track1.mp3 Track2.mp3 Track3.mp3 Track4.mp3 Track5.mp3 ... Track666.mp3 will become (random example) 001 - Track19.mp3 002 - Track500.mp3 003 - Track7.mp3 004 - Track123.mp3 ... 666 - Track10.mp3 Of course, the order, even if random, will be fixed. The other solution is simply to prepare MP3 CDs for your car WITHOUT using folders: I found that most MP3-CD players handle those uglily anyway, and that if you want a true random hearing experience over ALL of the contents you have to prepare a disk with a "flat" root directory. 0 Share this post Link to post
Platinum Shell Posted September 14, 2012 Jodwin said:Gay. WHEN YOU SAY THATS SO GAY DO YOU REALIZE WHAT YOU SAY Jk, anyway I attempted burning MP3's onto a CD before with Windows Media Player but it wouldn't play shit. I tried again and again, too... 0 Share this post Link to post
Clonehunter Posted September 14, 2012 Mr. T said:Get a Sansa MP3 Mini in the Blue Color, jesus Fixed for Truth 0 Share this post Link to post
188DarkRevived Posted September 14, 2012 Just go into MyComputer or Explorer or whatever other file manager application you are using and manually rename all of the mp3s into such an alphabetical and numerical order which would shuffle them according to your particular desire. (Doing it manually is a lot of work, but it is a solution. That's what I always do.) And then just use an application like Nero Burning ROM and "Burn a new Data CD". 0 Share this post Link to post
Bloodshedder Posted September 14, 2012 Ant Renamer has a "Random names" function that can also include the original filename. For example, use the string %random%%name%%ext% 0 Share this post Link to post