For reasons I will not elaborate on, my car now has a CD changer in it. Said CD changer supports normal redbook audio CDs with CD TEXT, and also supports "MP3 CDs". The downside is, either the head unit or changer does not handle MP3 CDs at all gracefully. Per track playback works perfectly fine, but the gap between tracks is over a second long (bad for DJ mixes) and seeking is very slow (bad for skimming through say, long DJ mixes). So I've got some options I need to deal with now.
Option one is to use MP3 CDs and just accept that I effectively can't skip through long tracks. And to listen to anything that should otherwise be gapless I need to manually combine the tracks.
Option two is to use "normal" audio CDs. I have to burn everything anyway because I want CD TEXT support and you can't trust factory disks to handle that. I have a lot of mixes I would probably end up manually splitting per track, which I would enjoy more than combining tracks.
Option three is, a mix of both I guess? The way the CD changer appears to have been intended to use is to just plonk as many songs as you have down on there and hit shuffle, as was the style at the time. That's very much not how I listen to music most of the time. On some occasions I enjoy it but it takes more planning for me than I typically spend.
Honestly the thing that annoys me most about any option that involves me using more than the number of CDs I can shove into the changer and head unit at once is I have no good way of getting designs onto the disks. Printing disk labels sucks, my vast array of blank CDRs are non lightscribe, and I'm incapable of writing anything past barely legible scribbles on disks.
Yes I have an aux input but that's just no fun. It's there for emergencies and guests only!