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Audience Participation: CDR Indexing
R. Alex Whitlock
I've got my new CD burner and software working and it's all going quite fantastic. I've noticed something, though.
I've switched back and forth between Nero and Adaptec/Roxio since I've been burning CDs. Since getting a portable MP3 player and later an MP3 player in my car, I've noticed that they index files differently. If I put on an MP3 CD burned with Nero and play it straight through, it will play - more or less - in alphabetical order. The exceptions are too rare to mention and make sense as to why they would read that way.
An MP3 CD burned with EZCD, on the other hand, will not index the files in alphabetical order. In fact, I can't determine how exactly it decides which file would go first. On the CD I was listening to today, it was a song that started with "H" (Hey, Hey, My My) rather than "A" whereas some "A" (Alabama) songs are almost halfway through the CD. A-M is generally towards the front and N-Z is generally towards the back, but there is little rhyme or reason as to which song goes where. Two versions of the same song with the same title may be as far apart as a dozen songs from one another.
I'm not complaining as much as I am confused. Honestly, a part of me really prefers what EZCD does cause that way I can listen to a 100-song CD straight through without all of the version of a particular track being lumped together. On the downside, it makes songs nearly impossible to find. So I dunno.
So my questions:
1) Does anyone know why EZCD doesn't put them in alphabetical order.
2) Does anyone know how to get EZCD to do what Nero does or vice-versa?
Observations
Indexing?!
Does Nero and EZCD creator have some sort of new mp3 CD creation?
I'm not particularly familiar with EZCD since it's pretty much sucked for the last several years, but I was always under the assumption that an mp3 cd was just a data CD, and therefore is alphabetical.
It appears in alphabetical on a computer, but not on an MP3 player (either the one in my car or the portable one).
There is a special mp3 option, but it does the same thing, order-wise, and the only difference between the mp3 option and the data CD is that the mp3 option automatically adds a playlist (helpful for computers, not for cars).
Solution is simple then. Create a Data CD and/or create your own playlist
The MP3 player in my car won't read playlists, though. Nor will my portable. They'll just start with track one (which will be the first alphabetically for Nero and some other track for EZCD).
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