Is there a good freeware program to take mp3's and burn to a CD that plays in the car ?

[Markfw]

I have a bunch of mp3's, and I can play them on my computer, but my new truck CD player can't recognise the disks. I got "Ace CD burner" and it does what I want, its $15 to buy, otherwise you can only put 10 tracks on a disk. Looking for a freeware one, and I downloaded 5 so far, and they don't work the same way, or aren;t free.

 

[montag451]

cdburnerxp
Free and no bloat

 

[Schadenfroh]

iTunes
Free and bloat

 

[Markfw]

Originally posted by: montag451
cdburnerxp
Free and no bloat

Perfect ! Except I can't figure out where the specify write speed, as I always burn sloooowww.

 

[f1sh3r]

windows media player? free.

 

[Noema]

Windows Media Player is excellent for this purpose. You can simply drag and drop stuff from your collection to the CD.

 

[montag451]

When you are about to burn in cdburnerxp, it will come up with the speed option.
Unfortunately, you won't be able to burn faster than the rated media speed - it isn't like blindwrite (where you can choose the speed regardless of the media)

 

[corkyg]

Not all car CD players will handle MP3's burned on to CDRs. My Buick 2005 Buick Terraza plays them nicely, but my 2006 Cadillac SRX player will not. Both GM - but different players planned for different markets.

The issue is often not the burn source, but the player itself. MP3s burned in a standard audio format get about 8 albums per disk.

 

[f1sh3r]

right, there are two different flavor of music cds...

1. Audio CD - like you would buy at the store. can hold 80 minutes of music (~25 songs).

2. MP3 CD - compressed audio files stored as data. usually can hold ~115 good quality songs. not as widely supported by stand alone cd players.

i believe what the OP is looking for is an application that converts the mp3 files into Audio Tracks and burns them as an Audio CD. Windows Media Player would be the easiest standard application to use for this. of course the CD will only be able to hold ~25 songs, but it will be playable in almost every cd player available.

 

[Pirotech]

Nero is free and burn any tipe of files. Then I didn't have mp3 player im my car I wrote audio CDs with Nero.

 

[Evander]

Nero ain't free, but the demo version I think doesn't expire but you have to burn at the lowest speed your media or drive supports.