Creating Menu to navigate and play (very) numerous short MP3 files

Hi, I have a project for an English language school where I have burned an MP3 "jukebox" containing many short MP3 files. I would like to create a DVD navigation menu with two layers 1) To access a particular Language level and 2) to then choose a short listening exercise. Does anyone have any advice on how best to do this. Thanks

Firstly, you do not want to be using MP3 as your source audio format.
You should be using either Dolby Digital, or 16/48 PCM WAV.
MP3 will almost certainly be the wrong sample rate, and is already heavily compressed - and recompressing to Dolby Digital in Encore is going to introduce artifacts.
I'd go back to your source Audio files & start over - seriously.
Any listening exercise created with MP3 that gets retranscoded is going to be a waste of time IMHO.

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