Anyone know if iTunes works with encoding tags correctly?

 

I had problems using iTunes to encode tag information in the MP3 files. It's a long story, but I believe the Shaker stereo chokes on the album art that gets embedded in the tag via iTunes. I ended up using Music Match to strip all the tag information from the MP3 file, and then just inserted the bare minimum (song, album, artist, genre). Afterwards, I can use the Shaker buttons to scroll through the song, album and artist data. Here is a link that describes things a little better.

How To Encode MP3s to Display

 

I burned an mp3 cd with itunes last night, but I deleted the art info from them (very easy in iTunes) before I burned the disk.

The Display showes the song name...but not the artist or album. I am going to play with it tonight, as well as folders. I will let you guys know.

 

ok, really dumb question.

Can I create like five folders in windows....put mp3's in those, and then burn the folders on to a CD-R. Is that basically an MP3-CD? I am trying to get around using iTunes or Media player.

 

Theoretically that should work... But I don't have my car yet so I can't say for sure. CDs are cheap... just try it.

 

Actually it's pretty easy, whenever I put in a blank CD in the drive, windows automatically asks if you want to open a CD-writible folder. Put all the files in there up to 700 MB. You can divide them into folders if you want. When you click to write them to the CD, I think it asks you if you want to make a music CD or a data CD, click data, otherwise it will convert them all to wav files and you won't fit everything on there. By clicking data, it won't change the type of file that you put in that folder. Hope that answers your question.

 

TOTALLY! thanks!

 

Any way to label the folders if you create the mp3 disk using media jukebox???

 

Actually it's pretty easy, whenever I put in a blank CD in the drive, windows automatically asks if you want to open a CD-writible folder. Put all the files in there up to 700 MB. You can divide them into folders if you want. When you click to write them to the CD, I think it asks you if you want to make a music CD or a data CD, click data, otherwise it will convert them all to wav files and you won't fit everything on there. By clicking data, it won't change the type of file that you put in that folder. Hope that answers your question.
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Mine does not do this, I have XP, what do you have?

 

The shaker will NOT play WMA recorded files. [/quote]

What do you mean??? I've ran about 10 burnt CDs in WMA format with not one problem in my Shaker 500 "A" series. Mp3's work just fine as you noted.