I strongly suggest that you google a program called Fixtunes.

It will read your library, rename the files in the format you prefer
(For example, I use songtitle-year.xxx).  It will also correct the meta
data in the file with artist, song title, etc. and download the album
art and add it to the file.

That way in WMP and on my iPod, it actually displays the album art when
the song is playing.

As I recall it was pretty cheap.

Tom

You are doing a lot of things dumbly.

First, why are you using CDs and not DVDs?  [Granted that DVDs won't
play directly in most audio CD players, but for storing your collection,
it's the way to go.  You will get over 1,000 songs on one DVD.]

Second, why are you burning the files from a music application?  Just
burn them as data files using a CD burning application (Roxio or Nero).
 Use the full, main, ISO-compliant application, do not use any of the
"dumbed down" shortcuts for people who don't really know how to create
and burn optical media with a full optical media burning application
(e.g. learn how to use such an application if you have to).

Your MP3's should be "tagged".  This puts ALL of the information about
the song INTO the MP3 file itself.  This information includes:

-Song title
-Artist Name
-Album Name
-Track number
-Publication date
-A lot more, including comments

However, if they are not tagged, tagging them (which can be done with
almost any music software) is a TON of work, can take hundreds of hours
to tag every song in a large collection.  But there are HUGE benefits,
since most MP3 players and Windows itself (in the View/Detail) mode know
about tagging and can display the tag information and if desired sort on
it.  There are ways to have your entire collection automatically tagged
based on music databases available on the internet, but this never seems
to actually work as well as it sounds.