wspy

Has anyone made/burned an Mp3 CD and played it in the cd player, preferably non-tech package? Just wondering how it functioned sounded etc.
Its another option to hooking up an ipod and stuff!

catnippants

Although I have the tech package, that's really all I do with my changer - roughly 4G of MP3s. What do you want to know?

phoward_15

I've done the same with my Tech Package as well. When you convert music into mp3s you're actually downgrading the format so the quality will actually be less. You might not notice it if you're not an audio snob but it is noticeable.

wspy

Ok then guys, educate me a bit here. As far as sound quality goes, how is it affected? I down load a track from lets say Limewire, which would/should sound better, if i burn it to a cd format where I only get 18 tracks to a disc or if I burn it to MP3 format and get 200 tracks to a disc? Or if I put the tracks on an iPod and hook that to the sys?
@catnippants, when you burn a disc, how does it sound compared to other formats and how do you set up your music i.e. files albums etc?
Thanx

PearlyWhite07

All mp3 is about is compression. Normal music files are decently large, that's why you can only put 18 or so on a disc. When you compress those files using mp3 compression, the files become much smaller but will lose some of the audio quality depending on the speed (kilobits/second). Generally, most mp3's are 128 kbps, but the higher kbps you go, the better the sound, but the larger the file.

catnippants

Sorry wspy, you mentioned Limewire. Unless you tell me you're not downloading copyrighted music, you're on your own.

dkswim

not worth it to convert mp3 to cd format. the track still sounds like an mp3 beacuse it basicly still is.

wspy

Woah... Just used as a reference sir!!

catnippants

Fair enough wspy - which is why I specifically chose the words I did. Unfortunately, Limewire has a reputation for a reason. So let me ask you this - why didn't you use iTunes as that reference then?

Sorry, but as both a musician and a software developer, I'm oversensitive to this stuff. It just amazes me how many people feel that stealing music and software is not only acceptable, but the standard way to do things. I have a thread on it going in another forum, and I'm really disappointed with the sense of entitlement so many people have....

calcio22

Along the question of MP3 CD's, I've made them with no issue -- if you listen to MP3's normally, then you won't care too much.

But my question, is it possible to create an MP3 DVD? I've tried but seem to fail. This interests me because I could include 24GB of music instead of 4GB.

Thoughts? Successes?

catnippants

Unfortunately, no. Acura enabled the reading of MP3 DVDs for the MDX, but not the RDX. This is pretty annoying because the two systems are supposed to be the same - and we know our drive can read DVDs. My guess is that Acura simply didn't want to enable it for us in order to maintain model differentiation...

calcio22

Catnippants,
Thanks for the quick reply. That's really a shame. Do you know if enabling this feature can be hacked?

catnippants

I don't really know. I haven't heard about much success in hacking anything in the recent Acura Navs - accept maybe the nag screen and/or start up image. I'm not even sure if that was completely successful.

tltopdog123

can i play an mp3 format cd on my 2005 tl with no tech package?? all this talk confuses me i just want a straight answer haha. thank you

phoward_15

tltopdog123 - If the front of your stereo face says MP3 then yes you can. However, why not just burn a few songs to a CD and find out. It'll take 5 minutes of your time.

ikkoku

For those of you who uses Mp3 CDs... do you put each album in its own folder or do you put everything in root?

Also, does the display show the tags/names of the songs?

phoward_15

Ikkoku - It's completely a matter of preference. I put all the songs at the root but I don't really listen to Mp3 Cds anymore so haven't done it in a while. But you can do either way. And yes, the folders and names do show up on display.

ikkoku

sweet... thanks for the quick reply!

RDXBOYMA

I put them in folders because the system uses the first file it sees off the root as the CD name. Annoying. I create a fake file with a name like "Music-CD-1.mp3"

As for the tags/names, it displays the file names, not the mp3 tags.

ikkoku

just burned off two CDs and it works great!

I don't see CD name on my non tech screen, it just shows CD#, Folder#, File#

In the beginning of each song, it'll show the name for a brief period. Now I can free up my USB port to charge my iPhone.

ikkoku

I was playing around with the buttons and if you press the display button, you can get the tags for artist, album and title.

RDXBOYMA

Interesting, on the Tech, the Display button only works when you're in XM radio.