Is there a 'non-destructive' way to make mix cds in iTunes?

Question

I am looking to collect a set of songs from my iTunes Library and build a custom playlist to eventually burn onto a CD. I want the songs to be in a specific order and have the same album title when burned onto the mix cd... but I want to preserve the original album titles and track #s from their albums of origin in my iTunes Library.

Is there a preferred approach to the above scenario?

Answer 1

1. Create the new playlist.

2. Select all songs in the playlist and create duplicates (here: AAC version) of them.

   

3. Rename the Album title for all tracks and set the song order via the Get Info menu entry.

   

4. Burn the playlist and remove it.

5. You are save to remove the newly created Album in the iTunes Library (here: Testalbum) because you created duplicates earlier.

Answer 2

The easiest way I can think of is to

• restart iTunes with the Option key pressed to create a new library
• make sure that the new library stores the tracks in a different place than the original one
• import the relevant tracks from Finder into the new library
• rename, resort and burn
• close iTunes and delete the temporary library