MP3 stick thingy

[purpose]

I am less technical than my mother, so please bear with me.

My friend has an MP3 stick thingy and has managed to copy(?) onto it a CD from part of a Talking Tape (ie a book that has been recorded onto CDs). When she tried putting more than one CD on there (the whole book - 4 CDs), the 2nd just replaced the 1st - so the 1st disappeared.

This means that she has to listen to one CD, copy the next onto the player thingy and then listen to that - so she can only listen to one CD before having to go back to the pc each time. This is driving her nuts and is just not convenient.

My question is: Is this happening because each Talking CD has its tracks labelled Track 1, Track 2 etc so they are simply being replaced because they are essentially the same in theory, or is she doing something wrong?

Hope someone understands this - not sure I do. Thanks in advance!

[fo3nix]

OK

1) it may be that the filenames are the same. thus the new files with the same filename may replace the old ones.

2) (more likely imo), what size is her mp3 stick thingy? it'll quote a size with "MB" at the end of it. like "128MB" or "256MB" etc.

If all the CDs do not fit on the stick's memory, then it may very well delete the older data to fit in the new data.

[purpose]

Wow - you understood! Thankyou for that!

 

It is 512mb. That doesn't mean anything to me although she was told by another friend that she SHOULD get all 4 CDs on the stick thingy, that's why she tried copying more than one in the first place. Is it not big enough?

[khana]

512MB is quite a decent size, however cd's can hold as much as 700MB each.
Of course just because it comes on a cd, it does not mean all of the space on there is being used up.
I think that as the poster above has said, its more likely the filenames are being replaced each time.
I'm wondering now if the cd's are being transferred in MP3 format from the wave files on the cd, that will compess them by typically 10 times which means you would be able to fit all of the tracks of the cd's to your memory stick.

[stevie21]

512MB should easily hold 4 CDs worth of *mp3s* - all you need to do by the sounds of things is make sure that the tracks from cd1 are renamed to "cd1 - track1.mp3" etc. (as mentioned).

If the 4CDs of tracks are named like this they should play in the correct order and all fit at once.

[Hammer]

... or create 4 folders on the mps player (cd1, cd2, etc) and copy each set of tracks into it's own folder. That would be easier and quicker.

[purpose]

I shall relay this info as best I can (might be easier to print it out so she can read it, rather than have me 'explain' it).

 

Thanks for your help everyone :0)