Gear For Just One Mix

My wife and her college friends do this every year, and it's a huge ass-ache. I'll tell you the same thing I told her: create a gapless playlist, tag your tracks so that they show up properly in order on a player, zip it up and upload it to https://mega.co.nz/ or something similar.

I agree with the above. When I make a mix I just use a zip of mp3s. Besides making sure you tag them with your track numbers and not the original track number on the source album, make sure to give your "album" a name and change all the tracks' album name to reflect it. Otherwise the mix will never stay together when they import it into their player. Rather then mess with those free share sites, I usually use my Public folder on Dropbox, but either way will work fine.

http://isoburn.org/ is what you need. An excellent free app. But Mega might be less tedious, as oktober says.

(It's usually best to make a physical copy of the mp3s you want to use to a new folder on your computer, so you don't mess up the metadata on the original tracks.)

After you figure out whats going on in your CD, the hard part is burning it 70 times. ANY CD burning program would work. I use iTunes, and all you would have to do is pop in a disc, make that playlist burn to it, and repeat 69 times. The only difference is that you have to pop in a blank cd 70 times rather than once.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZhmS9isqrk the cd swapping when burning.

If you want to stick with the physical CD, there is most likely a CD duplication service available in your city (or nearby). For example, just typing in "memphis duplication" into the Google lead me to http://www.agmasterworks.com (not an endorsement, literally the first one I found) who will do that with black text in paper sleeves for about $110 for 100 (it's actually more expensive to do 70). You'd then give them a copy you'd burn yourself and then in a week or so you'd get back a box of discs. They don't care what's on the master, just that they can read it. I have no idea where you live but any sufficiently large city ought to have a place that'll do these things. (I have no idea about actually "mastering" the disc - my experience there ends at burning CDs with iTunes.)

> They don't care what's on the master, just that they can read it. I would be quite surprised if that is generally true. A business like that could get into a lot of trouble. The odds of having the RIAA hammer dropped on them are very low, but so is the benefit to taking that kind of business.