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[MGD_King]

Here's what I'm trying to do. I want to burn a CD of MP3's sorted by the Artist and the year the album was released. For instance:

Dream Theater (folder)

• Images And Words (1992)
• Awake (1994)
• Falling Into Infinity (1998)

Rush (folder)

• 2112 (1976)
• Hemispheres (1978)
• Counterparts (1993)
• Vapor Trails (2002)

However, every time that I get the que sorted this way and update the order, it goes back to alphebetically listing of the Artist with the artists albums in alphebetical order. It totally disregards the year.

Anyone know if there's a way to do this, or am I doing something wrong?

Media Center Registered 9.1.280 -- C:\Media Center\

Microsoft Windows XP  Workstation 5.1 Service Pack 1 (Build 2600)
AMD Athlon 2092 MHz MMX / Memory: Total - 1048 MB, Free - 765 MB

Internet Explorer: 6.0.2800.1106 / ComCtl32.dll: 5.82 (xpsp1.020828-1920) / Shlwapi.dll: 6.00.2800.1226 / Shell32.dll: 6.00.2800.1233 (xpsp2.030604-1804) / wnaspi32.dll: 4.71 (0002) , ASPI for Win32 (95/NT) DLL, Copyright © 1989-2002 Adaptec, Inc. / Aspi32.sys: 4.71 (0002)

Ripping /   Drive E:   Copy mode:ModeBurstBigBuffer   CD Type:Auto   Read speed:Max
  Drive F:   Copy mode:ModeBurstBigBuffer   CD Type:Auto   Read speed:Max
  Drive H:   Copy mode:ModeBurstBigBuffer   CD Type:Auto   Read speed:Max
  Digital playback: Yes /  Use YADB: Yes /  Get cover art: Yes /  Calc replay gain: No /  Copy volume: 32767
  Eject after ripping: No /  Play sound after ripping: No  

Burning /  Drive E: LITE-ON  LTR-52246S         Addr: 2:0:0  Speed:52  MaxSpeed:52  BurnProof:Yes
  Test mode: No /  Eject after writing: Yes /  Direct decoding: Yes /  Write CD-Text: Yes
  Use playback settings: No /  Normalization: None

[MGD_King]

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[jleerigby]

Chuck all the files in playing now.

Sort by Year.

Select all files (Ctrl+A) then click the burn button on the toolbar.

Click options in the burn window> CD/DVD File naming> Custom and tick 'prefix the list order to the filename'.

Click options again and CD/DVD Folder naming>Artist.

That should do it.

[MGD_King]

I'll give it a try tonight when I get home and keep you posted. Thanks for the reply!

[MGD_King]

JLee,

That works, however, I didn't want to rename the folders, but since it's for the MP3 player in the car, it's not that big a deal.

Thanks for the tip!

Jason