[LMB] OT: AKICOTL Audible / I tunes onto CDs

[Mark Allums]

Ed Burkhead wrote:
> 
>> I would love some advice for making homemade MP3 CDs that will actually
> work
>> in my car player, too.
> 
> Is your car player MP3-CD compatible?  Few are.
> 
> I'm not sure that all car players will even play CD-R.  New ones probably
> will but old ones may not.


Pretty much all cars will play CD-R, if the audio disc is properly 
authored.

CD-RW, YMMV.  A lot of people think that their car can't handle CD-RWs 
correctly, because they have tried CD-RWs that were written with 
packet-writing software, in the wrong format, instead of disk-at-once in 
  audio format.  However, CD-RWs are not guaranteed to work.  Not all 
commercially-pressed CDs will even work in some players, because the CD 
was authored in a format that is not 100% compatible with the audio 
standard.

I have not personally ever found a player that wouldn't play a CD-R.

Still, I would risk the cost of a single CD-R (what, 10 cents? 15?) to 
find out.  You can buy 50 or 100 CDs in bulk and use the rest for other 
purposes, or pay $8.00 for three at the corner 7-11, if you don't want 
to risk wasting a huge number of discs.



> 
> I bought a portable CD player for my wife that'll remember its place when
> shut off (as long as you don't open the lid).  She uses the cassette adapter
> in the car to use the car's speakers and uses either headphones or a small
> FM transmitter at home to listen to the same book at home.
> 
> This lets her follow through the same book in all locations.
> 
> That player will also play MP3-CDs, supposedly, but I haven't yet succeeded
> in making an Audible book MP3.
> 
> I'm not tempted to make music MP3 disks since I have my now 2-year old 1-GB
> Ipod Nano that holds a lot of music along with a couple of books.  I'm
> wishing for it to die so I'll have a good excuse to get a new 8GB Nano
> that'll hold ALL my music along with a couple of books. <sigh> Someday.  The
> 1GB Nano really works fine.
> 
> Ed
> 

Wait a while, the battery will die in the 1GB Nano.  Then buy a 16GB 
iPod Touch.  :)  They are tres cool.  And will connect to the computer 
wirelessly, and people are even using them as phones at WiFi hotspots.


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Mark Allums