I should have been more clear - I meant that Gracenote couldn't automatically recognize mixed cds, while the musixbox could so long as the cd was burned properly.

 

Reply to MAH4546 - Songs/albums purchased from Apple through the iTunes Music Store will not burn as mp3s. This isn't the worst thing for what you're trying to do since the single disc slot will play mp3 discs, but the MusicBox won't record mp3s anyway. So, what you want to do is burn CDs or CD-Rs as "audio" and be sure to have the "save info" box checked in the iTunes burning preferences. The MB will save the track info just as you have it on the playlist you're burning no matter how the song originally got into your library. Hope this helps.

 

Thanks for the info, I've had some free time and have been burning CDs for the past few hours from iTunes. One last, simple question: the 512 song limit, is that only for playing off the memory card, or is that also a limit to how many songs you can burn? Would kind of defeat the purpose of almost 10 gigs if that is the case.

 

That only applies to the CF card.

 

Someone else will need to take that one. I read it as taking 512 FILES, not songs. I'm treating each of the playlists I burn as a file. I have recorded 24 playlists with about 375 songs so far and I have a huge amount of MB disk space left.