Burning Multi Session MP3s

[Denise_uk]

I've just got a car with an MP3 player in it, so I burned some of my favourite tracks onto MP3. It gave me the option to leave it open as a multi session disk, so I did. It played with no problem, and I then went on to add 2 more tracks onto it. yesterday They burned onto the disk, they're there, slotted into the existing tracks where they should be alphabetically, but when I put the disk in my car MP3 player it's as though they aren't on it. I've checked through the disk in case they were just added on at the end rather than put between the already burned tracks, but they just aren't there. I put the disk in my computer, and there they are! Am I doing something wrong? I thought if it allowed me to burn them onto the existing disk they'd play, otherwise it would have said it couldn't add them in the first place? Won't an MP3 player read data added after the initial burn even if it's done as a multi session disk? Please excuse me if I'm asking something totally stupid! Thanks.

[Ethel]

Please clarify.

You say you 'burned onto mp3'/

Do you mean you burned mp3 tracks on to a blank cd, or downloaded mp3 tracks to an mp3 player?

[pug100]

It all depends on the car cd player mfr. Some are better than others, but multi session discs are not guaranteed to work as you have found out.
I tried this myself when I got a Clarion mp3 car cd and could get it to work sometimes but the discs became iffy, tracks would disappearsemmingly at ramndom but later I ound it was the later additions that went 'missing'. Your best bet is to either save up enough mp3s to fill a CD or use a rewriteable CDR and redo it each time you add tracks. Takes a bit longer but the tracks are there when you want to listen to them

[Denise_uk]

Ethel - sorry, I meant burning mp3 tracks onto a CD as data rather than audio.

Pug - never thought of that. Of course, I can use a CDRW and just erase and rewrite as it's data and doesn't have to be a closed session. I'll do that I think. As you say, it takes a bit longer but if it works it's worth the extra few minutes. Thanks.

[birdie1971]

pug100 is right. Most CD players and MP3 disc players will not recognise the multi session elements of a disc. They are effectively "session one" players only. You can cut a disc with many sessions but the player will only recognise the first one. Sad but true. Pug100's answer is correct - fill the disc first or use a CD-WR and re-do it every time.

[birdie1971]

That should have been CD-RW...