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Making a digital "mixed tape"

Hi All.  I am putting together a playist for a memorial ceremony for a friend and am using Jriver v 21.0.9 for music management on my laptop.  However, the intended "mixed tape" needs to be saved in a format that other machines can play without having JRiver installed. The "mixed tape" could be in any format (MP4, wave, flac, anything) - though I am assuming all songs should be saved in the same format. On JRiver, I see how one can save the contents (e.g. library) or a playlist to a file, and see that I can export a playlist to a burnable CD, but in this case, I want to export the music to a single file on my hard drive, and then share it with the guy doing the video for the memorial.  Any help would be most appreciated.  Can I do what I need in JRiver?  If not, what other (preferably free) software would do this. If I recall right, I think iTunes might do this, although I'm not psyched to install iTunes on my Dell laptop.

Thanks, Peter

peter_s
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cleeds
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@peter_s when you export a playlist in JRiver, it will save as an M3U file. An M3U file does not contain the actual tracks themselves, but rather pointers to those tracks. For that reason, other computers or players won’t be able to execute the playlist unless they are connected to your network. I may be mistaken, but I don’t think JRiver can save a playlist and the files it contains to a thumb drive. It is limited to burning to CD.

If you want to be certain, you can ask your question on the JRiver forum. You'll get a definitive answer.

 

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riley804
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just don’t see why a thumb drive isn’t put into the computer and music files dragged or copy and pasted into the thumb drive ?

 

seems so much simpler 

 

 

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riley804
just don’t see why a thumb drive isn’t put into the computer and music files dragged or copy and pasted into the thumb drive ?

Read the OP. He has various file types and wants to ensure they’ll play on another player. So he is looking to have them into a single common file type that will enable it to be played without issue.

headphonedreams
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Audacity used to allow mixing of songs into one big music file. It was free last time I checked. There are many others that can do it that costs money but some of them allow you to test the software for a week or two and that might be enough for you.

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