Garage band -- burning more than one song possible?

[Straitsfan]

I'm very frustrated and need help.

I just finished arranging a son in Garageband to play in my CD player, so I can play along with my guitar and get some kind of experience playing with 'others' when I can't be with other musicians. I was able to burn it to disc fine and it played, but I want to be able to burn other music to the same disc at a later date. I can't figure out how. When I put in the same disc, it says the disc can't be burned and when I put a blank disc in, (I'm using an iMac) I get the burn dialog (from Disk Utility), but can't choose the 'leave disc appended' box to use it again later.

I can burn multisession discs with Disk Utility, but when I tried that, the two songs wouldn't play on my CD player -- I could see the clock running, but no sound (maybe it has something to do with the 'image folders' you need to have with DU to burn a multisession disc.

All I need are audio CD files to play along with. It seems a colossal waste of an hour's worth of music on an audio CD to be able to only put one song on it.

Can anyone out there help me? I'm going nuts!

I found a post from a year ago on this, but lost it so I'm writing again here. Please help.

 

[gecko zzed]

The cost of blank CDs is so little I wouldn't worry about it. Translation: I don't know how to solve your problem.

 

[Jim Lad]

What he says plus... you can only record on a cd once. It's not like rewriting files.
Anyway, what you really want is an MP3 player.
You just hook it up via USB, drag your MP3 files over then hook it up via 1/8" stereo jack to whichever device (mixer/entertainment centre etc.) that you want to play it in. The good ones start around $50 and will save you that on CDs alone.

 

[Atom Bomb]

I'm not sure if they are still making them but i'm pretty sure that HP makes re-writeable cd's.

I would suggest getting one of those. Im not sure if it works with an audio cd though. A data cd yes. audio i'm iffy on.

Andi would make the suggestion that if you get your hands on one of these disks that you not burn directly from garageband unless it has an option to leave the burning session open.

IF you close the burning session your done. That disk is now closed and even though its says re-writeable . . . it is no longer re-writeable.

Also thats why im iffy on the audio end of things, if you leave it open your car stereo or diskman may not be able to re-cognise it.

I stand to be corrected, but i am sure this is possible.

On the other hand i gotta agree with gecko... CD's are a dime a dozen these days.

Hell you can pick up a little mp3 player for next to nothing eh with a radio adapter??? Which is what i used.

 

[dervish riff]

You could use Roxio Toast, which will burn multi-session CDs, but after getting a new Sony MP3 player, which does work with macs--I'd just do that.