I think these were touched on in the other replies to this thread, but I wanted to simplify it and say you've got two options: 1) Use a mass tagger/renamer such as MP3 Tag Studio which has the option of truncating filenames to the Joliet limit. 2) Zip or Rar the files into sets of 650mb archives with their full file names stored inside the zip (since products like WinZip don't have the filename length limitation). The zip files themselves can be short names: "Artists A-F.Zip", "Artists G-N.Zip"...

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Tony Fabris