How do YOU play your mp3 cds on YOUR car stereo if it isn't mp3 compatible?

[rnmcd]

I used to have a portable mp3 player that had some adapter to send the mp3s from the portable player to the car reciever via FM...it kinda sucked and I don't know where it is anymore.

What do YOU do?

 

[sniperruff]

i plan to pick up a tape deck and plug it in an mp3 cd player. i know it won't sound as good but whatever.

 

[Gurck]

When I have the initiative and money to spare I'll buy a head unit with a line-in and run wires from it, under the upholstery, to either the glove box or a spot on the center console, where hooking up a portable player's line-out will be a cinch.

 

[BRObedoza]

tape adapter is better than the rf transmitters. line-in on the cd deck is even better.

 

[Injury]

Simple... I don't.

 

[monzi]

Any new p.o.s sub 200 dollar CD/MP3/WMA/XM ready player, will play the cd's.


Why bother with line-in blah blah blah.

Alot of the new cheap cd players for cars play mp3's.



-Monzi

 

[DurocShark]

One car: Plays MP3s directly. So a CD with like 30 songs takes care of biz.
Other car: Plays no MP3s. So I have to burn them to audio CDs and play them that way. Sniff.

 

[rnmcd]

Originally posted by: DurocShark
One car: Plays MP3s directly. So a CD with like 30 songs takes care of biz.
Other car: Plays no MP3s. So I have to burn them to audio CDs and play them that way. Sniff.

How large is a 4MB mp3 when it is converted to an audio CD? I am just wondering how many 'average' sized audio tracks I will be able to fit onto a cd.

 

[Goosemaster]

Originally posted by: rnmcd

Originally posted by: DurocShark
One car: Plays MP3s directly. So a CD with like 30 songs takes care of biz.
Other car: Plays no MP3s. So I have to burn them to audio CDs and play them that way. Sniff.

How large is a 4MB mp3 when it is converted to an audio CD? I am just wondering how many 'average' sized audio tracks I will be able to fit onto a cd.

same as the wav..but most of it will be filler


EDIT: IIRC it will just add data to get to the 1511kb/s so to speak

 

[MartyMcFly3]

Originally posted by: rnmcd

Originally posted by: DurocShark
One car: Plays MP3s directly. So a CD with like 30 songs takes care of biz.
Other car: Plays no MP3s. So I have to burn them to audio CDs and play them that way. Sniff.

How large is a 4MB mp3 when it is converted to an audio CD? I am just wondering how many 'average' sized audio tracks I will be able to fit onto a cd.

I range from 18-21 songs on an 80 minute cd usually. Again its dependent of length.

 

[flexy]

Originally posted by: rnmcd
I used to have a portable mp3 player that had some adapter to send the mp3s from the portable player to the car reciever via FM...it kinda sucked and I don't know where it is anymore.

What do YOU do?

burn it on CDs...well.....yeah kinsa sucks that most CD players dont read MP3s...and, no, we dont have a line-in nor a tape deck in the car...but at least we can burn some to CD

 

[flexy]

Originally posted by: rnmcd

Originally posted by: DurocShark
One car: Plays MP3s directly. So a CD with like 30 songs takes care of biz.
Other car: Plays no MP3s. So I have to burn them to audio CDs and play them that way. Sniff.

How large is a 4MB mp3 when it is converted to an audio CD? I am just wondering how many 'average' sized audio tracks I will be able to fit onto a cd.

around 12 to 18, maybe 20...

 

[TerryMathews]

On my in-dash MP3 player.
So you can read the screen (sort of)

 

[nageov3t]

my car doesn't have a CD player, so using the tape adapter is easy enough. I tried the FM transmitter, but the NYC airwaves are so packed there are no empty frequencies, and it's impossible to overpower any of the commercial stations.

whenever I get a new car, though, I'll probably just get a cd deck that plays MP3's off of a burned disk.

 

[Abhi]

One car ... i dont play mp3s
second ... in dash mp3 player
third ... the in dash mp3/cd player cant play cds anymore and is out of warranty. So playing via a connection to AUX in from a portable mp3 Cd player....

 

[AlienCraft]

I don't play mp3's, they are the tool of Satan.

 

[imthebadguy]

i gotta iTrip

 

[thomsbrain]

Originally posted by: rnmcd

Originally posted by: DurocShark
One car: Plays MP3s directly. So a CD with like 30 songs takes care of biz.
Other car: Plays no MP3s. So I have to burn them to audio CDs and play them that way. Sniff.

How large is a 4MB mp3 when it is converted to an audio CD? I am just wondering how many 'average' sized audio tracks I will be able to fit onto a cd.

omg. why do you think they call them 80 minute CD's?

 

[Gurck]

Originally posted by: monzi
Any new p.o.s sub 200 dollar CD/MP3/WMA/XM ready player, will play the cd's.


Why bother with line-in blah blah blah.

Alot of the new cheap cd players for cars play mp3's.



-Monzi

A digital player is far more flexible. No need to burn CDs, same collection that you're used to regardless of whether you're at home, in your car, or elsewhere, no need to bother with CDs.

 

[KK]

On these mp3 decks, how many mp3s could you put on a disk. Say 5MB a piece on a 700MB, total of ~140 songs, will the deck handle all of them? And what bit rate do you have to save them as? And how do you navigate thru all the songs?

 

[Actaeon]

Originally posted by: KK
On these mp3 decks, how many mp3s could you put on a disk. Say 5MB a piece on a 700MB, total of ~140 songs, will the deck handle all of them? And what bit rate do you have to save them as? And how do you navigate thru all the songs?

I currently have 102 songs on my current MP3 cd i use for my car. It is done at any bitrate, though most of mine are at 320kbs, so I can't hold as many as others. I think my deck (Pioneer MP-4500) is capable of 200 songs, but 100 is more than enough.

The songs are placed in Alphabetical order. I have a "Cross" for navigation, Up and Down does a random song, left is previous, right is next song. Usually if I want to hear a specific song, I do a random search until I am somewhere near the song, then I manually hit next or previous to get to it.

MP3 CD > Regular CD deck

 

[mobobuff]

Mp3 player + headphone jack to cassette converter + tape deck. I'm not a car audiophile so it suits me just fine.

 

[KK]

Originally posted by: Actaeon

Originally posted by: KK
On these mp3 decks, how many mp3s could you put on a disk. Say 5MB a piece on a 700MB, total of ~140 songs, will the deck handle all of them? And what bit rate do you have to save them as? And how do you navigate thru all the songs?

I currently have 102 songs on my current MP3 cd i use for my car. It is done at any bitrate, though most of mine are at 320kbs, so I can't hold as many as others. I think my deck (Pioneer MP-4500) is capable of 200 songs, but 100 is more than enough.

The songs are placed in Alphabetical order. I have a "Cross" for navigation, Up and Down does a random song, left is previous, right is next song. Usually if I want to hear a specific song, I do a random search until I am somewhere near the song, then I manually hit next or previous to get to it.

MP3 CD > Regular CD deck

I've been looking at getting a deck, but never understood how you could locate a song on them. Do they make ones that you can have the songs in particular folders, like the a folder for each album or artist?

 

[rnmcd]

the thing is I just had a Kenwood car stereo installed (it has a cd/mp3 player) BUT it DOESN'T have--which I want--is Preset Station Scan.

So I plan to return the Kenwood and get something that has a Preset Station Scan with a cd/mp3 player...I can't find anything like that for under $180(my budget).


So I have found a car stereo that has Preset Station Scan (without the mp3 compatibility) but I still want to be able to play mp3 that are burned to CDs.

I'm just trying to figure out the best way to do this........

 

[DurocShark]

My Pioneer deck that plays MP3s can use folders on the disc. So each band and/or album has a discrete folder. The player just works its way through the folders...