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[stevenage_saint]

I am confused

Have been searching the fourums about MP3 to be told that I can not play MP3 on IS200, but I can. I do burn as audio not data but they still are burnt as MP3.

The only difference is my CD writer is slow burns at tops 6 speed, and these CD's work. TO test my theory I tried it in work with a CD burnt at 8 speed and it plays. The cd is copying MP3 not CDA as the stuff is in my hard drive. When I did a fast burn of a cd (48 speed) the cd wont play. The thing is the slow speed burns play on other CD players which are not supposed to be able to read MP3 and when I check the disc on teh DVD and PC both say MP3 not CD.

Can anyone shed light on to why it can play when burnt slow. It has stumped a few people who are technical. :mat:

[Rob]

can i ask what burning programme you are using??? have an idea why this might happen.

[d3fy]

So if I cut a MP3 CD on slow speed it should play OK in the IS?

[Rob]

i doubt it very much - i asked what burning prog was used as most when selecting AUDIO convert mp3 to audio ( cda) as its burning - ill bet if data was selected ( which is mp3) then it wont play no matter at what speed u burnt it

[Matthew_McNally]

reckon you are right Rob.

acid test - how many "mp3 songs" can you fit on a standard 650 meg CD?

assuming 5 meg per mp3 - you should be able to get 150 songs on your CD.

[d3fy]

Dam, got all excited then...

[cheekyfutch]

Aha... I know this one.

SOme programs like Nero burn mp3s as CDA audio - so that regular CD players can read the info on the CD.

This is if you burn an 'Audio CD' rather than a data CD. IF you created a data CD, then you'd be able to fit at least 10 albums worth on your CDROM - this disc however will not be playable on the stock IS200 cd player. You will need to get an aftermarket head unit that plays mp3 CDs (that's a data CD which has mp3s on it rather than an audio CD which has had mp3s converted to CDA audio.

[stevenage_saint]

Aha... I know this one.

SOme programs like Nero burn mp3s as CDA audio - so that regular CD players can read the info on the CD.

This is if you burn an 'Audio CD' rather than a data CD. IF you created a data CD, then you'd be able to fit at least 10 albums worth on your CDROM - this disc however will not be playable on the stock IS200 cd player. You will need to get an aftermarket head unit that plays mp3 CDs (that's a data CD which has mp3s on it rather than an audio CD which has had mp3s converted to CDA audio.

That explaines it.

THe cd's are ripped with Exact Audio Copy (to get rid of that awful Copy protection that record compannies put on many CD's) and before I get moaned at most of the CD's I have ripped are my own personal CD's not copys

The cd is burnt as Audio with either Nero (at home) or Roxio (in work) in both case they are not burnt as data.

This has solved a mystery as I was not too sure if burnign as audio did create it as CDA. Cheers for clearing it up Cheeky.

[SuperChargedL]

I've noticed that IS200 CD-Player will skip on last tracks of the CD-R if the disc was burned very high speed using my Plextor CD-R drive (like 48X or higher).

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[Fargo]

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