Hi! Just have a 07 f150 with the single disc mp3 player. How do I need to burn a cd with mp3's with different folders. I've been able to play cd's with just a bunch of songs on a disc but I would like to have different folders with different songs. Does that make sense. Such as below


joe bob jones
-greatest hits
joe bob's cousin
-singing the blues

or do you have to do

joe bob jones
song 1
song 2
song 3
job bob's cousin
song 1
song 2
song 3



and so on. Any help would be great.

Thanks
Jim

 

are you burning the disc as music not data? you need to just burn the folders onto the disc as data and it should work.

 

Can't remember if I burned them as data or not. I'll try that. Do you know how many folders you can go down to. For example if I had Metallica-Album1 - Album2 or does it just have to have the songs under the first folder?

thanks for the help

Jim

 

like was said before...just cook up the CD as a data disc and you won't have a problem. I always segregate my music...country, rock, alt, classical, humor etc...also I don't think there is a limit to the folders...


not meaning to totally hijack this thread....who here has had any luck with the factory CD-MP3 player and CD-RW discs? What kind of CD-RW's did you use if you were able to make 'em work?


D

 

I have not used CD-RW discs, but have used CD-R discs with no problems so far. Imation and HP are the brands I have used. Playback is fine, but once in a while the unit wants to get a little balky in ejecting the CD-R. Saying that, the Sony in my 77 seems to have more trouble ejecting the CD-R's than the factory unit in my 05.

 

ok...I must be stupid. Is there a certain file naming convention for the mp3 disc? I burnt as a data disc, made sure to close the disc and still get a "bad disc" error on the cd player. I had it in this structure:

folder name
song 1
song 2
song 3
folder name
song 1
song 2
song 3
folder name
song 1
song 2
song 3

What am I doing wrong!!!???? Please help this lost soul!!! It shouldn't be this hard!

Thanks
Jim

 

From my experience, CD-RW's suck for use in car that gets hot in the sun, at least the Memorex ones I've used do. I think the media starts to re-flow and lose the data whey they get hot. I've never had a CD-R go bad from heat yet.

For burning MP3 discs, I've always named the folders by prefixing the album name with 01 - , 02 - , 03 - , etc to name the folder, and then each track in a folder the with the same prefix scheme so the albums and tracks play in the order I want and not alphabetically or whatever it would do otherwise. Whether the radio demands that scheme, I can't say for sure, but it works in mine anyway.

The OE radio is annoying to me in how it handles folders. It has "folder" mode or "disc" mode. When in folder mode, it will start repeating the tracks within the folder so you have to hit the "folder" button on the radio to get to the next folder. When in disc mode, it plays all the tracks in order, but you can't jump to the next folder w/ the folder button. It makes you skip past the tracks in order to get to the next folder. Clumsy. I really appreciate the Pioneer in the Ranger that will play the whole disc in order and let me skip across whole folders too.