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[Pangur]

I want to burn mp3 discs, from a collection of my own sound files - not sourced from any CDs

The track names are only 8 characters long, in alphabetical order, and are a code with letters, numbers and spaces, so I can quickly find out where each track was located in the my archive database.

After my first disc was burnt, I found that EM8 had removed all the the spaces in the track names. Not helpful at all !!

It even removed a space in the title of the disc.

How do I get EM8 to leave my track names as exaxtly they are?

[sknis]

Pangur, on Oct 21 2006, 07:07 PM, said:

I want to burn mp3 discs, from a collection of my own sound files - not sourced from any CDs
The track names are only 8 characters long, in alphabetical order, and are a code with letters, numbers and spaces, so I can quickly find out where each track was located in the my archive database.
After my first disc was burnt, I found that EM8 had removed all the the spaces in the track names. Not helpful at all !!
It even removed a space in the title of the disc.
How do I get EM8 to leave my track names as exaxtly they are?

I don't think that you can.  One suggestion is to put dashes or underlines where there are spaces.

[Pangur]

sknis, on Oct 22 2006, 05:51 AM, said:

I don't think that you can.  One suggestion is to put dashes or underlines where there are spaces.

OK - It's a solution, I suppose.

I can only think of two reasons why this very annoying feature is present.    

1. It is a program fault.
2. It has been deliberately coded this way - If so, exactly *why* anyone thought this be of any use to anyone, or failed to give an option to disbable it, is a mystery to me .....

Pangur.

Edited by Pangur, 24 October 2006 - 12:31 AM.

[sknis]

Pangur, on Oct 24 2006, 03:30 AM, said:

OK - It's a solution, I suppose.
I can only think of two reasons why this very annoying feature is present.
1. It is a program fault.
2. It has been deliberately coded this way - If so, exactly *why* anyone thought this be of any use to anyone, or failed to give an option to disbable it, is a mystery to me .....
Pangur.

Actually I think is is a Windows fault; I have other programs that do the same thing. Some programs use a %20 to indicate a space (HTML).  That's harder to read then the deletion of the space.

[Pangur]

sknis, on Oct 24 2006, 06:06 AM, said:

Actually I think is is a Windows fault; I have other programs that do the same thing. Some programs use a %20 to indicate a space (HTML).  That's harder to read then the deletion of the space.

I know that Easy CD Creator 5 doesn't do it - I still use it at times with my old 4X external burner.

[d_deweywright]

Pangur, on Oct 24 2006, 04:30 AM, said:

OK - It's a solution, I suppose.

I can only think of two reasons why this very annoying feature is present.    

1. It is a program fault.
2. It has been deliberately coded this way - If so, exactly *why* anyone thought this be of any use to anyone, or failed to give an option to disbable it, is a mystery to me .....

Pangur.

Hmmm... you're right... that's whacky, and I was able to replicate it.  You're obviously using "Music Disc Creator" to do this.  

Here's how to avoid it.  Write the disc using Creator Classic.  Remember, an "MP3 CD" is nothing more than a Data CD full of .MP3 files, and possibly a playlist (.M3U) file as well.  If you create your Playlist file separately, just include it on your Data CD.  I'd never noticed this because for my .MP3 discs, I just make them as a Data CD in Creator Classic, and don't bother with the playlist.

I'll be curious to try this at home in EMC 9 and see if it does the same thing.

Hope that helps!

d_deweywright, on Oct 25 2006, 11:15 AM, said:

Hmmm... you're right... that's whacky, and I was able to replicate it.  You're obviously using "Music Disc Creator" to do this, and it's definitely a "Music Disc Creator" issue, not Windows.

Here's how to avoid it.  Write the disc using Creator Classic.  Remember, an "MP3 CD" is nothing more than a Data CD full of .MP3 files, and possibly a playlist (.M3U) file as well.  If you create your Playlist file separately, just include it on your Data CD.  I'd never noticed this because for my .MP3 discs, I just make them as a Data CD in Creator Classic, and don't bother with the playlist.

I'll be curious to try this at home in EMC 9 and see if it does the same thing.

Hope that helps!