Burning MP3 discs within specific folders

I know this topic has been beaten to death, but I have not seen any specific answers relating to folder structure.
I am specifically looking to create a disk with the following folder structure:
Genre, artist and then individual songs.
If I sort by play number everything goes into the root. If I sort by artist I get the folders: artist, album, individual songs. If I sort by genre I get the folders: genre, artist, album, individual songs.
Is there any way to specify the folder structure that winds up on the disk?

Creating folders is a matter of sorting your playlist. See this article for details...
iTunes: How to set the play order of songs on an MP3 CD
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=60931
Patrick

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Sort the playlist by Album and Burn and the DVD will be in Album folders.
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You Guys Rock!!!
I would like to know how to burn an MP3 disc with just tracks and no folders. Right now, all songs show up as foler 1 song 1,2,3 --- then it will go folder 2 track 1,2,3,4 etc. I want to get it to simply read track 1,2,3,4,5,6,7 etc. all the way through the disc.
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Select the playlist then click on the Name cloumn & burn the CD.
If you sort by Artist it will put them into Artist/Album folders.
If you sort by Album, it will put them into Album folders.
get iTunes to burn with no sub-folders (ie, CD/Rock or CD/Pop and not CD/Rock/The Eagles/Take It Easy.mp3)?
Never seen it burn into Genre folders./Album folders...

I reinstalled I-Tunes several weeks ago. Since then I can no longer burn MP3 Discs with Title and Artist Info. Sometimes it only burns every 3rd song. No Audio CD it seems to function OK. The version has the "cloud" but I don't know if that matters or

I reinstalled I-Tunes several weeks ago. I can no longer burn MP3 Disk with Song/Artist info onto disc. It comes up as No Artist/No Title on car CD unit. Old MP3 Disk previously recorded still show all info. Sometimes only every 3rd song is on the MP3 CD. On Audio Disc there is no change and all info still shows up. The new I-Tunes version has the "cloud" on it if that could make a difference. In the select Burn CD mode I can select testing and add song info for Audio Disk but it shows shadowed out for MP3/Data. I added and removed ID tagging from my list to see if that made a difference but it didn't.
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my car stereo reads mp3 cd's, and folders make it a dream to navigate thru 130 songs.
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On my CD, half the artists/albums went into their own folders, and half the artists/albums went into a folder called "Compilations" which contained yet another hierarchy of sub-folders. In this folder, sub-folders were organized by album name and not artist name.
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Greetings,
OK, I took 4 albums by the same group and made a playlist of the songs I wanted and jumbled them so they were no longer in their original order and all one album was together. I put them in the order I wanted. I burned an MP3 disc and on the burned disc all the songs were put back into their original order and in there original albums which were in alphabetical order. I don't want the songs in that order. I want them in the order I rearranged them in.
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Thanks. That is the control I couldn't find, I had to switch the burn mode to MP3 to be able to burn songs in MP3 format. Once I got it switched, it did burn an MP3 CD from the playlist.
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I am using AAC as the preferred format for ripping my CD collection in to iTunes. I'd like to take a couple of playlists and burn them to CD as MP3 format. Is there a way I can easily tell iTunes to burn an MP3 version of a playlist? My audio equipment that I want to play the CD in will recognize MP3 and not AAC, so I need to do this conversion but I can't figure an easy way to do it.
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