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Burning CDs for users without iPhoto Apps
When burning a CD from within iPhoto, you'll notice that, while the resulting CD works great for iPhoto users, it can be a confusing mess for people using OS 9 or an alternate operating system.

To burn photos to a CD that will not be used with iPhoto:
  1. Insert a blank CD-R and make sure it mounts in the Finder.
  2. Use iPhoto's file export feature to export photos to the still-unburnt CD-R. As a bonus, you can use the photo's title as their filenames.
  3. Burn the CD from the Finder; do not use the burn button in iPhoto.
Ta-da! I use this method to create CDs for use with my DVD player (which does not look into subfolders for images). I also use this method to send photos to relatives still using OS 9.
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Burning CDs for users without iPhoto
Authored by: cynomyso on Mar 27, '03 11:18:24AM

I've been taking my photos to Wal-Mart to have printed. The first time I did this, I burned them to a CD from within iPhoto. When I stuck the CD in the photo kiosk at Wal-Mart, the photos that had been modified in anyway, including being rotated, were displayed multiple times. Instead of simply being able to print all photos, I had to carefully pick the ones that I wanted. I then started using the method described at the root of this thread and got exactly what I expected and was able to simply say, "print all".



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Burning CDs for users without iPhoto
Authored by: jimlaurent on Mar 27, '03 02:20:06PM

If you are using it to send CDs to friends, I'd suggest using the "Export to HTML" option with "BetterHTMLexporter" plugin available at versiontracker.

This provides the added benefit of an "index page" of thumbnails and an easy way for anyone (Mac, Windows, Linux) to view your images in a browser.

BetterHTML exporter also has the option to export the original images. That way your view has a thumbnail, VGA quality web image and full quality image.

Finally, if you want to avoid menus, you can just select all the pictures in iPhoto and drag them to the CDR icon on your desktop.



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Burning CDs for users without iPhoto
Authored by: gsgm on Mar 27, '03 02:42:59PM

iPhoto keeps your original "unmodified" pitures around so that you may undo the modifications. (Red-Eye, rotate, etc...)

If you know that you will not be needing the originals any more, (you want to make the changes permanate) I suggest using iPhoto Diet from http://pages.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/~fuhrer/personal/freestuff/
This program removes all the old copies and only keeps the one with the most recent changes applied.

You mentioned that when you took the CD to Wal-mart, if had both original and full size copies on it. When you do the export, check to see whether you choose Original (Unmodified), or Full Size (modified) or both.

It sounds like you might have choosen both by mistake.



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Burning CDs for users without iPhoto
Authored by: figz on Mar 27, '03 11:47:06AM

I wonder if this method, applied to burning mp3 cds would help my sister use her mp3 cd player. Currently if she uses iTunes to make mp3-cds, it won't play in her mp3-cd player. Maybe if she copies the files to a blank cd and uses the Finder burn, it will work. I'll have her try it!



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Burning CDs for users without iPhoto
Authored by: dweebert on Mar 27, '03 11:37:41PM
I wonder if this method, applied to burning mp3 cds would help my sister use her mp3 cd player. Currently if she uses iTunes to make mp3-cds, it won't play in her mp3-cd player. Maybe if she copies the files to a blank cd and uses the Finder burn, it will work. I'll have her try it!

The problem most likely is the encoding rate. iTunes generally burns MP3 CDs correctly formatted for automotive MP3 CD players, but some of these players can only play up to 128 kbps MP3s.

When I got my MP3 player for the car, I was disappointed that it only supported the older version of the ID3 tags. My solution (after realizing that converting tags to v1.1 inside of iTunes messed up the files' metadata) was to write a small program that read the iTunes database, and allowed me to select a playlist and export it to a directory.

Now I keep a "Random CD" smart playlist in iTunes, which puts 650 MB of music randomly selected from my collection. When I need a new CD for the car, I just put a blank in, let the Finder prepare for burning, and run my program (SideBurner) to export. As it exports each song in the playlist, it converts the tags to version 1, so the names display correctly on my CD player.

(I intend to release my program to the general public, as soon as I get a bit of time to code around some Windowsisms that still exist in the interface.)

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Burning CDs for users without iPhoto
Authored by: atari on Mar 27, '03 03:47:00PM

I tried this to play the pics in my dvd setop player, put it didnt play the photo's on the cd



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Burning CDs for users without iPhoto
Authored by: Fofer on Mar 28, '03 09:02:03AM

Does your DVD set top player support the playback of JPEGs off of a VideoCD? (Or even a DVD for that matter?) This is not standard on all DVD players, in fact, it's a unique extra. So check on that first.



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