Can I convert each playlist into one single mp3 file

Question

I have had great success creating and burning a playlist to a CD however I'd really prefer to save an ENTIRE playlist of about 20 songs as a SINGLE MP3 file.  I can then I burn each file (composed of songs in a playlist)  to a CD and have a nice set of organized music set/PLAYLISTS to listen to.  I stated my question in this manner because I've seen many similar questions but they are not what I am asking. I am using WIndows 7
What I have tried:
1.) ...selecting the group of songs within the playlist and exporting as an MU3.  My results:  It created an MU3 file that played for less than 1 second when played in anything other than itunes.  In itunes it opened as the same playist I began with
2.) ...consolidating the files (the goal was to consolidate into one MP3 file) but once I selected the consolidate option I could not find that file under itunes Media which is the location where itunes says it would be stored.
3.) ..converting to MP3       Result: It just converted each individual file to MP3 format and NOT the entire list as a SINGLE MP3 file.
Does anyone know if there is a way to accomplish this?
Thanks in advance
D

Answer 1

Sorry to disappoint you, Chris... but I don't "take their product". Someone WHO WORKS FOR THEM "gives it to me". There's a MAJOR DIFFERENCE between someone handing you something that's theirs to hand you... and stealing it.
In 2006 I saw Sara Evans "perform" in Tucson. She flew on her congressional (then) husband's private plane from Portland to Orange County, refueled and flew to Tucson, where she got into a limo, and rode to the show. She got out of the limo, went straight backstage, I saw someone hand her a Dr. Pepper, which she opened, took a sip out of, and then went out on the stage as the headline act for the evening. She sang six (6) songs in twenty-three (23) minutes, walked offstage, did no encore, and got back in the limo, which whisked her back to the waiting jet to fly home.
The station manager of the radio station that sponsored the concert, later told me that she was paid $125,000 for that twenty-three minutes. Even he felt like the station didn't get their money's worth. The promoter paid for the jet fuel and her pilots' salaries.
In 2009, I went out to Phil Vassar's "motor coach" after a show, which is basically a house on wheels. He showed two friends and I the "studio" in the middle of this converted bus, where he can record new tracks and send them straight to the record company via satelite, for their final editing. The front has a full kitchen & living room and a 50" flat screen TV with a massive audio system. HE owns the whole thing, and when he doesn't feel like riding, he has a private plane of his own that will pick him up wherever they can land and fly him to the next show.  His promo guy gave each of us a copy of every CD he's ever released before we left.
I have no problem with people making money for their work. But I've seen just how much is given away in the music industry, and I'm not going to refuse things offered to me because someone with a private jet and limo, getting $6000 a minute, or with a half million dollar "rolling house" isn't getting paid for the things their own people are handing out in bulk.