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Problem: You have a selection of a few dozen to thousands mp3s and want to burn these mp3s to audio CDs (because let’s say you are a DJ whose equiment only supports this medium) at once. Your normal burning suites very often don’t make this easy. First you go the hard route by burning each CD project manually. This soon gets very boring so you decide to do some googling and that’s how you got here.

Solution: Luckily there are some applications that can make your life easier. I present to you the programs that I have found so far. Decide for yourself which one you like best.

• Roxio Easy Media Creator (EMC) from version 8 (as far as I have tested) onwards. You are looking for the “Music Disc Creator” which is part of the suite. It is probably the best solution for its nice sorting and rearranging options (if you can cope with the suite’s bloat).
• MediaMonkey, from version 3.0 on: “burn audio across multiple Audio CDs”
• FillCD (not tested yet)
• SizeMe (not tested yet)
• M3Util - a M3U/MP3 Playlist splitting utility (not tested yet)

Liebe Leute, schwer beeindruckt von den Innovationen am Klangsektor auf der heurigen Urban-Art-Forms-Musikleistungsschau in Wiesen (”Pille - Palle - Alle Pralle, Druff - Druff - Druff - Druff -Druff”), möchten wir zum Start des Semesters ähnlich beschwingte Musik unters Volk bringen.

“Auf gehts”: Samstag, den 27.9. ab 20oo
“Ab gehts”: Bude Neostadia, Neuklosterplatz 1 (Kellerabgang)
“3 Tage wach”: Unsere DJs werden verlegen: Indierock, Balkanbeat & Elektronik

“Du und deine Oma”: Begleitung willkommen.

“Flasche leer, Feuerwehr”: sollte nicht passieren, die Bar ist gut sortiert.

Clemens K und Martin P

“You’d better keep movin’ … or you’ll be left behind.”

Probably two of the best 80’s mixes. 1997 I often heard both mixes at a roller skating rink in Davíd, Panama where they were played all the time. I even got the DJ to make me a tape of CD 2, which I did lose however. So in 2005 I went through some serious researching for the originals, which was kind of hard because I only remembered some of the tracks and I completely forgot the CD titles (but the vibe of the mixes is unforgettable as you will hear ). The title “Rock Hits” is also quite irritating because I wouldn’t file the first mix under typical Rock. I then somehow identified mix no. 2 by looking for appearances of Joan Jett and after some months of ebay searching I luckily got both CDs from an American ex-mobile DJ. The condition of both discs was ok, but the covers were cut on the sides (at least I found an alternative back pic for mix 2 on the web).

So here are the mixes - enjoy and share!

Perhaps someone would be so kind to enter the mixes into discogs!

Rock Hits of the Eighties Mix 1

Mixed by: Boom Boom Productions

Copyright: 1989, Alt Musique, France

41 Tracks (2 Mixes: The Journey Begins, The Adventure Continues), Total: 58min 26s

MP3 + Cuesheet +HiResPics: Rapidshare

Track List:

01. Men Without Hats - The Safety Dance
02. Dexy’s Midnight Runners - Come on Eileen
03. Huey Lewis & The News - I Want A New Drug
04. Robert Palmer - Addicted To Love
05. Simple Minds - Don’t You (Forget About Me)
06. Don Henley - All She Wants To Do Is Dance
07. Stevie Nicks - Stand Back
08. Cindi Lauper - Girls Just Wanna Have Fun
09. Phil Collins - Sussudio
10. Yes - Owner Of A Lonely Heart
11. Duran Duran - The Reflex
12. Eurythmics - Sweet Dreams
13. Wang Chung - Everybody Have Fun Tonight
14. A-ha - The Sun Always Shines On TV
15. Stevie Nicks - I Can’t Wait
16. The Romantics - Talking In Your Sleep
17. The Outfield - Your Love
18. Van Halen - Jump
19. Starship - We Built This City
20. Steel Breeze - You Don’t Want Me Anymore
21. Glenn Fry - The Heat Is On
22. Toni Basil - Mickey
23. Styx - Mr. Roboto
24. Billy Joel - Pressure
25. Flock Of Seagulls - I Ran
26. Scandal - Goodbye To You
27. Devo - Whip It
28. Go-Go’s - We Got The Beat
29. The Pretenders - Middle Of The Road
30. The B-52’s - Private Idaho
31. A-ha - Take On Me
32. Kenny Loggins - Footloose
33. Billy Joel - Tell Her About It
34. Billy Idol - Dancing With Myself
35. J. Geils Band - Freezeframe
36. Prince - Let’s Go Crazy
37. Stray Cats - Rock This Town
38. The Bangles - Walk Like An Egyptian
39. Katrina & The Waves - Walking On Sunshine
40. J. Geils Band - I Do
41. Ted Nudgent - Wango Tango

Rock Hits of the Eighties Mix 2

Mixed by: Jean Carlo Durieux

Copyright: 1996, Alt Musique Dimensione, France

46 Tracks (the tracklisting of mix 2 wrongly shows track 3 as the duplicated “Down Under” which is in fact “Shout”), Total: 73min 41s

MP3 + Cuesheet + HiResPics:: Rapidshare

Track List:

01. David Bowie - Let’s Dance
02. Foreigner - Urgent
03. Hall & Oates - Out Of Touch
04. ZZ Top - Sleeping Bag
05. Huey Lewis & The News - Power of Love
06. Falco - Der Kommissar
07. After The Fire - Der Kommissar
08. ABC - Look of Love
09. Duran Duran - Is There Something I Should Know
10. Patty Smith feat. Scandal - The Warrior
11. Pat Benatar - Hit Me With You Best Shot
12. Men At Work - Who Can It Be Now
13. Steve Miller Band - Abracadabra
14. Pseudo Echo - Funkytown
15. Thomas Dolby - She Blinded Me With Science
16. Thomson Twins - Lies
17. The B-52s - Love Shack
18. The Clash - Rock The Casbah
19. Billy Joel - Uptown Girl
20. Philip Bailey & Phil Collins - Easy Lover
21. Dire Straits - Money For Nothing
22. Eddie Money - Take Me Home Tonight
23. The Cars - You Might Think
24. The Fixx - One Thing Leads To Another
25. Huey Lewis & The News - The Heart Of Rock & Roll
26. Toto - Rosanna
27. Rush - Tom Sawyer
28. Mr. Mister - Kyrie
29. Falco - Rock me Amadeus
30. Joan Jett - I Love Rock & Roll
31. Peter Gabriel - Sledgehammer
32. George Michael - Monkey
33. Robbie Nevil - C’est la vie
34. Steve Winwood - Higher Love
35. Tears for Fears - Shout
36. Wang Chung - Dance Hall Days
37. Men At Work - Down Under
38. U2 - Pride (In The Name of Love)
39. Rod Stewart - Infatuation
40. Survivor - Eye of The Tiger
41. INXS - Need You Tonight
42. Fine Young Cannibals - She Drives Me Crazy
43. Rick Springfield - Celebrate Youth
44. Greg Kinh Band - Jeopardy
45. Howard Jones - Things Can Only Get Better
46. J. Geils Band - Centrefold

This is not a mix originally by me, I just took the liberty to cut and paste some of the good parts of Solid Steel Radio shows into a “best of” selection, primarily for myself. However the more I listen to the mix the better it gets so I share this one with the world. BTW: the redux is because I removed some parts of the first version to make it shorter and nicer. Enjoy and be sure to check out the original Solid Steel radio show!

MP3: Rapidshare link

CUE-Sheet: Download.

Total duration: 97 min

Genre: Breaks

Tracklist:

01 20070316:
02 Freestylers - Electrified
03 Deekline & Wizard - Make your girl feel the bass
04 Dan F & Jariten - Halo (Backdraft mix)
05 DJ Saturn - Just belong
06 Kenneth Bager - Les Fleur
07 20040719 (Diplo Megatroid Mix?):
08 Diplo - News flash
09 ? (Bailefunk)
10 Os Carrascos - Bochecha Ardendo
11 Dead Prez - Hell Yeah
12 TV on the Radio - Staring at the Sun (Dynamix II)
13 20070316:
14 Ruckus Roboticus - here we go
15 Member of the trick - All i want
16 Noisia - Yellow Brick
17 Ben Westbeech - Hang around (Wahoo mix)
18 20070302:
19 Ben Westbeech - Hang around (Wahoo mix)
20 Dorfmeister v MDLA - Boogie no more (Kraak & Smaak mix)
21 Awesome 3 - Don’t Go
22 Rhythm on the Loose - Break of Dawn
23 DJ Debonair Samir - Wanna F
24 20040419:
25 Da Lata - Can it be (Spiritual south mix)
26 Lonesome Echo production - Spirit of drums (Sumo mix)
27 Dublex inc - Nifty night
28 Two Lone Swordsmen - Roof one
29 E.S.G. - Party music (Raw)
30 20031006:
31 The League Unlimited Orchestra - Things That Dreams Are Made Of
32 Richard X feat. Kelis - Finest Dreams
33 20031117:
34 Bobby Konders - The Poem
35 Bjosos Krost - Bloody Day
36 Solarstar - Diskohit

Here’s one of my early mixes that was originally a live mix (the song selection was great but the technique definitely lacking). I redid the whole thing on my PC and mixed in some samples.

MP3: Rapidshare link

CUE-Sheet (for foobar2k or in other players via plugins): Download

Total duration: 63 min

Genre: House, Oldschool, Breaks

Tracklist:

01 Moby - Raining (Steve Angello Remix)
02 Deep Dish - Flash Dance
03 Madkatt Courtship - My Life is Music
04 Funky Green Dogs - Reach for Me
05 Shapeshifters - Lola’s Theme
06 Tiga - You Gonna Want Me
07 Playgroup - Make it Happen
08 Madonna - Get Together (Hitmixers Remix)
09 Stereo MC’s - Paradise (Paul Daley Vocal)
10 Smoke City - Mr. Gorgeous (Remix)
11 Dax Riders - People
12 Groove Armada - Lovebox
13 Chemical Bros - Hold Tight London
14 Beloved & Nathan Fake - Sweet Harmony (Remix)
15 Awesome 3 - Don’t Go (M1 Piano Mix)
16 Corona - Rhythm of the Night (Club Mix)
17 Nalin&Kane - Beachball (Extd Vocal Mix)
18 Digweed - Warung Beach
19 Thomaz vs. Filterheadz - Sunshine
20 Switch - A Bit Patchy
21 Telemen - In All Nothing (Remix)
22 Jeans Team - Baby 3 1

A picture of me from around that time at a birthday party:

Es ist nicht alles relativ, sondern (es ist) noch viel schlimmer.