I have an Alpine CDA-7995. It can play MP3's and I have done so before. However, when I burn the CD-R with MP3 files, and try to play it on the Alpine, it cuts each file up into multiple tracks (3-4 usually). This alone wouldn't be that much of a bother except that in between each track, there is a pause in output.

Does anyone have an idea of what I need to do to burn the CD's such that each file is one track, as opposed to being cut up into many tracks?

 

I use roxio to burn my mp3's onto cd's. I format the cd's to read like data files instead of music. I've never had problems with cutting of songs.

 

I used to get this problem with roxio 5. Now I use Nero 6, and I don't have this problem anymore. BTW I have the Alpine cda-7898.

 

I also use Nero and burn as a data CD. It always sets each track seperately, even within a file. I've never had songs "cut" before.

Each song is it's own piece of information, unless you do something otherwise. Your burning software might be causing the problem.

Sometimes I convert my discs into one unit so that the discs are continuous, although you can't skip between tracks at all. I usually only do this with live CDs ("Operation: LiveCrime" yaaayy), so I don't have pauses between tracks. Basically, the disc is converted into one 70 minute "song."

 

Very strange. I have a 7894 and I burn my MP3 CD's as data disks, and it never splits up the tracks.

 

Alpine CDA-9813, I either use Nero, Windows XP's burning software or Linux's commandline utilities (mkisofs/cdrecord)... never had such a problem.

 

I burned it again, and it worked the second time. Weird.