MP3 Compatible?
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From: The Big, Oregon
MP3 Compatible?
Is this even a needed tag? I wanted to see what a non-MP3 player would do, so I grabbed a cd the wife made up of church music, about 35 tracks, all mp3s. Threw it in my 1986 Signature 2000 player (must not be compatible, it predates the common use of PCs, right?), and much to my surprise got music. Exact, perfect playing of all tracks. Tried out every CD player in the house, my diskman, the wife's 98 diskman, my new garage junk cd player, her Jeep, they all played it just fine.
So, is this some sort of a fluke thing, or are all cd players MP3 capable, and they just mark the more expensive ones so you think you have to buy them?
So, is this some sort of a fluke thing, or are all cd players MP3 capable, and they just mark the more expensive ones so you think you have to buy them?
The Pacifier
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From: Cloverdale, BC
Huh?
When I got my Ranger, I was told the cd player would NOT play cd's burned with mp3's on it. Up until now, I haven't had the urge to even try. And now that I have the means to attempt it, I'm out of blank cd's. If it doesn't work in my truck, it should work in my wife's car. Hers is made for it.
When I got my Ranger, I was told the cd player would NOT play cd's burned with mp3's on it. Up until now, I haven't had the urge to even try. And now that I have the means to attempt it, I'm out of blank cd's. If it doesn't work in my truck, it should work in my wife's car. Hers is made for it.
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From: Calgary, Canada
Originally Posted by Ford_Six
Threw it in my 1986 Signature 2000 player (must not be compatible, it predates the common use of PCs, right?), and much to my surprise got music.
The format of the CD is highly suspect; MP3 technology didn't exist until 1987, so I highly doubt that a cd player purchased in '86 will play mp3's.
Throw that disc in your computer and open up the drive with Windows Explorer and see what type of files are on it... Probably *.cda
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Your wife probably burned that CD with a program that converted the songs from MP3 to regular CD wav files. Otherwise you would've fitted a lot more than 35 songs onto one disc.
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Cargo Master
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I have plenty of CD players that won’t play MP3’s. I agree with furball, sounds like the CD you used was just a regular one.
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most cd's will only hold around 20 songs (usually less) when burned into regular cd format instead of mp3. but, that all depends on the length and size of the song. i have a 6 disc stereo in my apt that won't play mp3's... it was bought brand new from wally world about 2.5 years ago... there is a difference so i'm pretty willing to bet your cd wasn't burned as mp3 format but burned through a program that automatically converts it to audio.. heck even xp's burning utility will burn an audio cd.. to get an mp3 disk you have to burn a "data" cd and just put all your files on the disk... that way you can get usually just under 200 files on a disk... *shrug*
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