Has anyone else had much experience in making MP3 CD's for the audio system? I have noticed that when I've done them, the radio picks up the name of the first song title as the album and does not change throughout the rest of that disk. (the song titles do change) I generally put mixed titles on one disk. Its not a huge deal, but I was just wondering how to get around that. I'd like to make my own "album" titles. The voice is extraordinary in not only the pronunciation, but the emphasis in speaking as well. Its kind of freaky actually, how human it sounds!
One other thing - I assume that most of you know that if you make your own disks, putting labels on them is a big no no with our kind of radios. The changers can jam very easily, and in the past, having the one from my 2002 TL sent out - with my disks in it - was the day I decided not to play any original disks in the car! I got them back, but it took about 6 - 8 weeks.

 

The first song title ends up as the album title for all mp3 CDs in (at least) the 05s and 06s. I suppose if one really minded one could make a one second long silent song with the preferred album title at put it first.

 

I put a short song as the first song, and simply renamed it to represent the content of the disk. In this case, I renamed Wall of Voodoo's "On Interstate 15" to "Singles" for a disk full of songs my wife and I could tolerate for a road trip.

Right now, my whole changer is full of homemade MP3 disks. It almost makes not having an MP3 Aux Input jack acceptable.

Rob144

 

Thanks. Using a short mp3 file and naming it what I want, was one solution I was thinking of.

 

It works from the folder structure you make on the disk.


MP3 Disk capability is a hugh feature of the RDX. In fact, this feature for me has made it a moot point to use my iPod for music in my RDX (I do use it for audiobooks).

Here is what I do (note: just my way... lots of ways to do this)

1. Create a pre-burning folder structure that can serve as a scratch pad for the folder structure you wish to see on the eventual disk and RDX Audio display. The RDX audio screen will show the primary folder structure and allow you to drill-down showing the MP3 files for whatever folder is active at that moment.
2. It simply reads the names of the folders and then the names of all PM3 files within them. If you've organized your files into folders, then much of the file name of a well-tagged MP3 file is redundant, and if you're not careful its name will be truncated. In otherwords if I have a (sub) folder structure "Pink Floyd/Dark Side of the Moon/" and the physical name of "Eclipse" is "01 Pink Floyd -- Dark Side of the Moon -- Eclipse" I will never see the songname "Eclipse" because it will truncate the display to something like "01 Pink Floyd -- Dark Si". Since I'm using folder structure I already know it is Pink Floyd and I already know the album is Dark Side of the Moon. What I want to see quickly is what song is playing. Hence, I simply rename my files in the temp folder with the counter and song name only.
3. Note that all my PM3's are arranged in folders anyway --- alphabetically (26 subdirectories), then Artist, then Album. So under "P" will be a directory called "Pink Floyd" and then say a folder called "Dark Side of the Moon" with the MP3's and album art for that particular album --- and on the disk itself. I also "tag" my MP3's with the song name first, then the song number, artist, album, and genre. I use Music Match software to accomplish this although iTunes and others will also work.

The result is a pleasant music experience, especially for long drives, where I can put a good 100 specifically chosen songs on one disk.

 

I am not sure that the MDX applies to the RL but if files are created in folders in the root of the disc then the folders maybe selected and a second push of the knob will show the data of the MP3 files. This works until you turn the car off and then the data cannot be retreived again until you reload the disc. Mine is a 05 RL.

 

Most of the discs that I have created only show the first song as the title of the disc but once I made a folder on the destop of a MAC and I dragged songs into the folder. I then burned the MP3 disc and all of the song data shows up. I usually use a PC and the database would have to be created by the user regarding the song compilation. This is too much typing for my one finger! The advantage of using itunes is the database.