Creating Audio CD from mp3

Hey, y'all! I want to create a CD from the music mp3's I purchased from Amazon and from the Internet. Now I know that an mp3 CD cannot play on a CD player, and I want to create a CD that can play on a CD (or in my case, a DVD) player.

I did this last night and my 80min/700mb CD-R didn't play: First I went to iTunes (I have version 10), selected my mp3s, and hit Advanced > Create AAC Version. This made m4a's out of my mp3s. Now, because iTunes 10 doesn't have a "burn" function (that I can find anyway), I went to the Finder and highlighted these new m4a's and burned them to the CD. I read that burning m4a's creates CDA files on a disc, which I thought is was I wanted. And the whole process matched what I did when ripping my CDs (that is, my ripped music files are in m4a versions, converting via ripping from their CDA format).

Anyway, my CD didn't play.

Where can I go from here? I'm thinking I have to create a "playlist" of sorts for organization. Maybe I need a software to burn it.

Any help will be much appreciated!!

Hi and welcome to the forums inhonoredglory.

Could go into doing it on the Mac with Mac Apps, but I'm on my out for work so have a look at Burn. Its free and very easy to use.
HTH

Cheers

Put them in a playlist and select Burn playlist to disc from iTunes file menu

Hey, thanks you both. I tried louishen's suggestion. So that's where the burn on iTunes 10 went. Thank you so much!! Now I'm listening to my newly-minted CD.

Oh, just wondering: Can I add more music to a CD which already has a playlist on it? Would the order be ruined?

inhonoredglory said:

Oh, just wondering: Can I add more music to a CD which already has a playlist on it? Would the order be ruined?

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Once you create an audio CD you can't add more music to it because to put it simply CD discs are a write once technology. If you want to add music to your playlist in iTunes then do just that and create a new audio CD. In the iTunes playlist you can rearrange the order of your songs in any order you want. All you have to do is drag the song up or down.

Ah, OK. Thanks, EndlessMac. You all were so helpful and quick! Thanks for making MacForums a great place to be. ;D

inhonoredglory said:

Ah, OK. Thanks, EndlessMac. You all were so helpful and quick! Thanks for making MacForums a great place to be. ;D

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No problem. We are all happy to help. It's a nice group of people on this forum but there is a monetary tip jar if you are feeling real generous.

There actually isn't one but if you did believe that then the forum admins can probably make one. There is already a way to bribe the mods and admins so adding a monetary tip link shouldn't be too hard for them to do. ;D