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I just purchased an MP3 player for my car, and burned an MP3 CD from iTunes, only to find out that it would not play since iTunes burns the CD in Mac OS Extended format and the car stereo would only play ISO 9660 CDs.

I wanted to keep all the playlists that I had and did not want to move, by hand, all the MP3s into a separate folder to burn in Toast (the Export Playlist to Toast 2 AppleScript from Doug's AppleScripts for iTunes took way to long to create). Suddenly, I had en epiphany (I thought it was just gas…); why not try dragging the songs directly from iTunes into Toast? I opened Toast, selected ISO 9660 as the type of CD that I wanted to create, and then clicked the "Select" button to open a window where you can drag and drop files into. I switched back to iTunes and then selected the songs (not the playlist) I wished to burn and dragged them into the Toast window (ISO 9660) and voila! It worked.

Note: You may receive a warning from Toast that some of the file names are not ISO 9660 compliant. In the ISO 9660 window that opened when clicking the Select button, click on the Settings tab, and in the Format menu, select CD-ROM and change the Naming menu to Joliet (or the MP3 player may not recognize some songs). Then, in the Files tab, look for all the file names that have "!!!" to their right, and you will have to change those names, or or the MP3 player may not recognize some songs. It may be as a result of a character not used in Windows ("?" or "!"), or the file name may be too long (it looks like 64 charcters is the limit). It also seems that Toast is using the MP3 tag as the file name, instead of the Mac OS file name.
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Burning MP3 CDs in Toast From iTunes
Authored by: Swift on Aug 04, '03 10:40:15PM

I've never heard of this -- but come to think of it, my Sony DVD/CD player doesn't play burned CDs -- might it be different if I tried a 9660? Hmm. I'll have to try.

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Burning MP3 CDs in Toast From iTunes
Authored by: rb3 on Aug 05, '03 12:19:25AM

My Sony CD/DVD hates CD-R and CD-RW, regardless of file format, while my Toshiba takes anything I feed it. I have read comments from much more serious music types than me that only Sony's high end DVD machines do this, as they do not wish to encourage piracy for the masses. Apparently, CD-Rs and the like require dual lasers to read them properly, and Sony is also eager to avoid that cost, too. Who knows. Epinions.com has long tirades on the issue.

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Burning MP3 CDs in Toast From iTunes
Authored by: Hes Nikke on Aug 05, '03 01:38:26AM

if anything iTunes burns hybrid disks, but they are probably just strait ISO 9660 + an XML file for iTunes to know what is on the disk.

your MP3 player is probably hanging up on the XML file, check your documentation!

my car MP3 CD player ignores all files on a disk that don't end in .mp3, but the documentation says that it slows down disk access to have non-.mp3 files on the disk.

also, check that iTunes is set to burn MP3 CD's, not Data CD's, as Data CD's probably are in HFS+ :P

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Burning MP3 CDs in Toast From iTunes
Authored by: applepalam on Aug 05, '03 09:20:26AM

I found out how to do that some time back. But I did it because I can only burn to CDs with toast, my storix optical series isn't supported by apple.

Anyway, there is a small problem with this method. When you drag a few songs into the toast window, it doesn't maintain the list order of the iTunes playlist, it has some wierd method of sorting... You'll have to manually drag the tracks into position. Or, maybe I'm just missing something. If there is a way to maintain the sort order, do let me know.



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Burning MP3 CDs in Toast From iTunes
Authored by: gsgm on Aug 05, '03 09:50:10AM

Last time I checked, I thought there was a preference setting to tell iTunes what format to burn CD's in. (ie: Audio CD) you might want to check that.

Also, most audio CD players do not like CD-RW media so check to see if you have CD-R media.



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Correction on "Export Playlist to Toast 2"
Authored by: DougAdams on Aug 05, '03 09:57:58AM
The AppleScript mentioned, Export Playlist to Toast 2, does not prepare tracks to burn as MP3 CDs. It converts tracks in the selected playlist to AIFF first. This may explain why it appeared to take "way too long" and not work to the poster's expectations :)

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Burning MP3 CDs in Toast From iTunes
Authored by: matt_j_gray on Aug 05, '03 06:36:09PM

iTunes does burn ISO MP3 disks - they work fine on the Windows machines and DVD players I've tried.

It will not work if you use CD-RW disks in my experience.

I think it probably comes down to individual players having different ideas as to what an MP3 cd should have on it...



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