I apologize for this being somewhat off-topic, but I've searched all through Google and Interact without finding anything that specifically addressed this problem. And the people in this forum always seem to have good ideas, so I thought I'd ask for help here . . .
If anyone has any advice regarding the following, it would be much appreciated:
I usually organize/tag all of my MP3 tracks with Media Center, and then I burn copies of various artist folders onto CDR using Adaptec DirectCD (drag and drop the files, then format the disk to be read on any CD player or CD drive).
Now, when I place the data disk in any PC, my folders and files are in perfect order and playback fine. When I use Media Center to access or import the data disk, everything is really terrific -- the data and tags import back into MC9 perfectly.
However, when I try to play the same data disks in my Norcent DVD player . . . or when my girlfriend tries to play these disks back on her Panasonic CD/MP3 walkman (Panasonic SL-MP70 Portable CD/MP3 Player) . . . ALL of the files are split up into multiple tracks. A data CD that is supposed to have 189 individual MP3 song files will now have 999 tracks.
With the DVD player this makes it very difficult to navigate, but playback at least sounds fine. With the Panasonic Portable, however, there is a PAUSE inbetween each track . .. so not only is it tough to navigate the 999 tracks, but you also end up with 999 pauses . . . which is insane.
My question: is the way I'm labeling/organizing/tagging these tracks in MC9 causing the problem? Or is it the way I'm encoding (I've tried both VBR and regular MP3, with no results)? Or is it the Adaptec DirectCD that's splitting the tracks (and if so, why can MC9 still read the files without these additional 999 track breaks)? Or is the Panasonic portable (and the Norcent DVD) just
complete crap and there's nothing I can do about this?
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Topic: MP3 tracks split on CD/Mp3 portable and DVD Player (Read 1143 times)