Creating Your Own Album

This section describes how to group MP3 files into a folder and create your own audio CD album.

Before burning MP3 music files into audio CD album, you should move the selected MP3 music files into a folder and give them an album name. Here is I did to prepare my first audio CD album:

1. Create a folder called: \MP3\Herong First Album\.

2. Move some of my favorite MP3 music files to this directory. Total play time should be less than 80 minutes.

3. Go through each MP3 music file and modify its ID3v2 tags using the file properties dialog box. On the summary tab, copy the original Album Title to the Comments field. Enter "Herong First Album" into the Album Title field.

4. At the end, I got a folder of MP3 music files like this:

C:\MP3\Herong First Album>dir
 Directory of C:\MP3\Herong First Album

        8,633,705 Chinese_Classic-Liang_Zhu.mp3
        3,270,784 Chinese_Classic-Liu_Yang_He.mp3
        3,111,750 Chinese_Classic-Mu_Yang_Qu.mp3
        6,396,910 Chinese_Classic-Shi_Mian_Mai_Fu.mp3
        4,119,868 Chinese_Classic-Yu_Zhou_Wan_Chang.mp3
        6,419,973 Russ_Deane-A_Song_of_Peace.mp3
        5,298,379 Russ_Deane-In_The_Universe.mp3
        5,831,276 Russ_Deane-Love_Will_Stay.mp3
        8,513,316 Russ_Deane-Moon_Dance.mp3
        8,745,912 Russ_Deane-Reflections.mp3
 10 File(s)     60,341,873 bytes

Table of Contents

 About This Book

 Audio CD (Compact Disc Digital Audio or CD-DA) Format

 Audio CD (Compact Disc Digital Audio or CD-DA) Players

 Audio CD (Compact Disc Digital Audio or CD-DA) Rip Music

 WAV Audio File Format

 MP3, MPEG-1 Audio Layer 3, Encoding Format

Burning MP3 Music to Audio CD

 Steps to Burn MP3 Files as Audio Tacks

Creating Your Own Album

 Adding MP3 Folder to Windows Media Player Library

 Windows Media Player Settings

 Burning MP3 Music to Audio CD

 Windows Sound Recorder

 ISO 9660 Standard for Data CD

 Recording Data on CD

 VCD (Video CD) Standard

 DVD (Digital Video Disc) Standard Format

 TOC (Table Of Contents) on CDs

 IsoBuster - A Nice CD GUI Tool

 MPlayer - The Movie Player

 vStrip - Rip and Manipulate DVD VOB Files

 mpgtx - Manipulating MPEG Files

 CD/DVD - File Name Extension and Format Types

 References

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