Burning mp3 files to CD using Windows Media Player

I was lucky enough to be spending my summers in France back in the noughties so all these mp3 discs were burned so that I could take almost my entire music library on about twenty CDs. I also bought a really cheap (then!) Philips DVD player and it played the mp3 discs beautifully (through a little Sony mini hifi) - sounded almost as good as my home set-up.

I think if you put separate classical pieces in folders you should be able to achieve correct sequencing that way. I'll do that as part of my test burn - I have the RW disc at my disposal now so I'll crack on.

Another point I'm not too sure about, Ric, is with regard to giving titles to the tracks or files, as you have done. Can that be done after the files have been burned to the CD or does it have to be done before the files are sent to the CD to be burned onto it? I imagine the latter(?)

Many thanks Ric. Well, it's a relief to know that it's VLC that's flawed in that respect and not just something I've done wrong in burning etc.

I've tried again with WMP, following the selection of "All Music", as you indicated and this time I was able to see all the tracks which I'd burned, although not displayed in a neat list as yours are. Also, when I've pressed 'Play' they have been played in a totally random order, which is no good because they're classical tracks which go together, for example three movements of a symphony but WMP delivers maybe the second movement first, then goes maybe to another composer's work and then comes back and plays maybe the first movement of composer A. But I guess I'll just have to experiment with how I burn them. I'm guessing it's best to do them in large batches, which, hopefully, will stay together and in order when played. Anyway, thanks again for all your work. I'll keep you posted on how I get on.

In answer to your last post: I actually don't have a DVD player.

Another thought about disc playback options - have you got a DVD player you can try it in? They often handle mp3 files...

The results are in! I think you have to rule out VLC for playing discs created in this manner. Like you, I could only get it to play one track at a time... chocolate teapot syndrome. I thought I'd check the disc in iTunes too - iTunes doesn't 'see' it at all  - probably because it is not a finalized disc. I imagine that is the same for VLC. 

It should play normally in WMP though... here are screenshots of an mp3 disc on which I recorded all the Beatles main albums (as side 1 & 2 like the original vinyl) When first inserted, it will display this...

Open from 'All Music' and the tracklist appears... and should play in sequence... I'll have to do the RW test burn again to see if burning in sessions affects this because by now I cannot remember which of my older discs were multi-session!