Any Computer Guru's online???

does'nt some players recognise dvd with mp3 format?

Jo and Mark
Your lagging behind the times now mate, I would forget all about Audio CDs and 6 stackers , let the windows Media Player convert your Audio Songs into WMA or MP3 files, thats done in the settings , If your connected to the net when you do it then most CDs will be automaticly named from the CDDB [CD Data Base] in USA so you don't have to type it in, so having done that make sure the songs are ripped at 128 kbps which is better than CD quality, then you will get about 200 to 250 songs on a 700 MB CD , now your car radio must be able to play CDRs-CDRWs MP3s and WMAs and then you can leave your good CDs at home where they will not be ruined by wear and tear , Now in the near future CDs are will dissapear , I have a car radio that has a USB port and an SD card slot on one side of it and i have 330 songs on a little 1 GB SD card about the size 20c piece , the sterio quality superb, has no turning part so cannot jump even on the roughest corrugation, Radio brand is US Audio but soon Alpine , Kenwood and other brands are all going to have this facillity, I hope I have not confused you even more , I'm 63 next month but like to keep up to date on tech' stuff , I thrive on it ...lol

******** let the windows Media Player convert your Audio Songs into WMA or MP3 files, thats done in the settings , If your connected to the net when you do it then most CDs will be automaticly named from the CDDB [CD Data Base] in USA so you don't have to type it in, so having done that make sure the songs are ripped at 128 kbps which is better than CD quality, then you will get about 200 to 250 songs on a 700 MB CD ********

that is what I want to do, you got it... but it won't let me even fit 20 songs let alone 200. I just went through my settings and fiddled and even when I changed some settings around (that looked like.. oh this might be the setting I need) it still didn't make any difference.

I don't like to play the originals, call me thrifty but if it is damaged much well then I am up for another thirty bucks, hence I stick them on the computer, do a copy and keep the copies in the car and the originals in the house so I don't always have to go looking for music when I want to play it.

Ahhhhh computers s u c k sometimes!!!!!!!!
Jo

up top of windows player see the tab called RIP click that, insert the Audio CD , ..wait if it is a well known Artist look to the right ...see find album info...clik it ..wait now if it does not find the info then another player sometimes does ...like Winamp or Real Player , so if WMA does not then it will show as Track 01 and so on WMA is so complex in what it does is fantastic , just play with it , OK once the track names appear click on RIP MUSIC on right side, but before you do that go to Hard drive, make new folder , name it ..ie My songs , close HD go back to wma click on TOOLS / OPTIONS/RIP MUSIC, set slider to 128kbps, select MP3s or window mwdia files at the format drop down ,at the "rip music to this location" section clik CHANGE and direct it to the folder called my songs on the C drive . Then when all is ready click the RIP MUSIC and your away , it will put the songs into folders within folders and then burn those files to your 700mb CD

Thanks Doug, yep do all that. Have no dramas at all with ripping, just drives me nuts that I can't get it to burn more onto disk than I want it to, and what it should be able to do. Am using windows media player 10, it is currently up to date.

that all sounds about right Sam, using windows media player 10.
So that is my big question, to get more onto a disk how do I set it to burn as files not audio? Just can't wrap my head around it.

Hey Ray.
I just had a quick look at music match. It looks alright. So could I download that, but still keep all my files on media player and then just basically do a copy and paste thing over to musicmatch when I want to burn something?

Hey Doug!

We too jsut got in 20 minutes ago from the Queensland Imbil weekend gathering.
I got to fiddle around and I figured out on WMP how to change it to a data file, I did fit 3 abums on 1 disc. I didn't try for anymore just those 3 on that one I wanted). the oly drama I had with it, is it burned all the songs all mixed up, it didn't burn them in the order that I put them in. Any ideas?
jo

You are an ideas man Doug!!!

I will have a fiddle tomorrow!
So where did you travel off to for you getaway?

WOW! ok how do we get a job like yours!
Like Trevor, it must be nice to have a job where you get to travel around and not stay in the one place all the time.