Folder and Album names onto CD

Please bear with me.  I did this before and now I can't figure out how.  Such are the ravages of aging brains.
I'm trying to copy the music from my old vinyls to CDs I can play in my car.  I have software and a USB connection that let me get the music onto my computer in MP3 form.  Plays back OK on the computer.  I created a playlist in iTunes with a bunch of songs and used iTunes to burn the music onto a CD.  Works fine.
Here's the problem:  I have 116 songs on one CD that display a title when they play, but there is no other organization.  I did this once before with a bunch of other albums and when I playback the display shows a folder name and an album name.  That way I can skip an entire album or artist easily to get to what I want instead of advancing song by song through dozens and dozens. 
The new CD I created doesn't have that info, just Unknown Folder or Unknown Album.  Looking at the Properties of the mp3s I created, all the Details/Media are filled in, i.e., Artists, Album Artist, Album, even Year, #, Genre and Length.
What am I missing?

Lucky Eddie,
You are remembering correctly.  Before you burn the MP3 CD, sort the playlist by Album.  That will cause iTunes to burn the MP3 CD with the songs in an Artist/Album structure.
For more information, see this document:
iTunes: How to set the play order of songs on an MP3 CD
Look especially at the section "How to burn by album."

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