How do i make an MP3 CD?
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Dear All, after the fright of my life from my local stealer, i have decided to knock the instilation of the iPod kit on the head. They quoted me ?195.00 for the kit, so i thought ok fair enough, however they said they couldn't put a final cost on instiliation as the time it takes depends on software decoding which needs to de done, even if your car is brand new, as mine is!!!!! So the best estimate they could come up with was "about ?410.00 plus the cost of the kit". So over ?600.00!!!!!
So i am going down the MP3 route as i dont want the trailing wires from my Ipod in the cabin.
I run I tunes on my PC. A friend of mine had a CD player that read MP3's in his old car and he told me he was able to get over 100 songs on 1 CD although he used Windows media player. Is this possible with i Tunes? as i have just tried to drag and drop files from 'My music' on my PC which are in an iTunes format onto a CD. I could only get the capacity for about 60 songs, and then they wouldn't write!
I am sure i am doing something wrong, is there a way to burn iTunes music as an MP3 file onto CD without comprimising quality?
Any help or instructions on how to do this would be greatly appreciated.
Regards
Dan
So i am going down the MP3 route as i dont want the trailing wires from my Ipod in the cabin.
I run I tunes on my PC. A friend of mine had a CD player that read MP3's in his old car and he told me he was able to get over 100 songs on 1 CD although he used Windows media player. Is this possible with i Tunes? as i have just tried to drag and drop files from 'My music' on my PC which are in an iTunes format onto a CD. I could only get the capacity for about 60 songs, and then they wouldn't write!
I am sure i am doing something wrong, is there a way to burn iTunes music as an MP3 file onto CD without comprimising quality?
Any help or instructions on how to do this would be greatly appreciated.
Regards
Dan
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Originally Posted by danpercival' post='373855' date='Jan 5 2007, 10:35 AM
A friend of mine had a CD player that read MP3's in his old car and he told me he was able to get over 100 songs on 1 CD although he used Windows media player. Is this possible with i Tunes? as i have just tried to drag and drop files from 'My music' on my PC which are in an iTunes format onto a CD. I could only get the capacity for about 60 songs, and then they wouldn't write!
Invariably, the more similarly populated "tracks" on an MP3 CD, the lower the audio quality.
I guess f you wanted to listen to phone quality audio, you could probably get over 500 tracks onto a CD.
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I can't offer too many details on iTunes but the following thread may help you out (if you haven't already seen it):
http://forums.e60.net/index.php?showtopic=24018
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Originally Posted by danpercival' post='373855' date='Jan 5 2007, 02:35 AM
Dear All, after the fright of my life from my local stealer, i have decided to knock the instilation of the iPod kit on the head. They quoted me ?195.00 for the kit, so i thought ok fair enough, however they said they couldn't put a final cost on instiliation as the time it takes depends on software decoding which needs to de done, even if your car is brand new, as mine is!!!!! So the best estimate they could come up with was "about ?410.00 plus the cost of the kit". So over ?600.00!!!!!
So i am going down the MP3 route as i dont want the trailing wires from my Ipod in the cabin.
I run I tunes on my PC. A friend of mine had a CD player that read MP3's in his old car and he told me he was able to get over 100 songs on 1 CD although he used Windows media player. Is this possible with i Tunes? as i have just tried to drag and drop files from 'My music' on my PC which are in an iTunes format onto a CD. I could only get the capacity for about 60 songs, and then they wouldn't write!
I am sure i am doing something wrong, is there a way to burn iTunes music as an MP3 file onto CD without comprimising quality?
Any help or instructions on how to do this would be greatly appreciated.
Regards
Dan
So i am going down the MP3 route as i dont want the trailing wires from my Ipod in the cabin.
I run I tunes on my PC. A friend of mine had a CD player that read MP3's in his old car and he told me he was able to get over 100 songs on 1 CD although he used Windows media player. Is this possible with i Tunes? as i have just tried to drag and drop files from 'My music' on my PC which are in an iTunes format onto a CD. I could only get the capacity for about 60 songs, and then they wouldn't write!
I am sure i am doing something wrong, is there a way to burn iTunes music as an MP3 file onto CD without comprimising quality?
Any help or instructions on how to do this would be greatly appreciated.
Regards
Dan
Good luck, keep us posted.
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Originally Posted by swajames' post='373924' date='Jan 5 2007, 04:02 PM
You should be able to get around 100 or more tracks on an MP3 disc using decent bit rates. Based on your description, I suspect you may have just created a regular audio CD (aiff format)
As for the OP possibly creating a regular audio CD, I doubt he could get 60 tracks of any sensible duration onto such a CD.
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The E60 will read CD -R and CD +R and assumming you have nav DVD -R and DVD+R. I use Nero burning Rom and you can convert files to .mp3 using the codecs under the Nero extras tab. I also use some software which you can down load free from codec central and convert my i-tunes .m4a files to .mp3, clearly there is a small loss in quality but I find the result perfectly acceptable and I have the Hi-FI speakers. I have about 65 albums on a single layer DVD which uses about 2/3rds its capacity burning at a bit rate of 192. The E60 also reads dual layer DVDs. When burning DVDs a little more care is needed with the settings in Nero.
I have an old August 2003 build 530d with bus nav and v23 CIP.
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I have an old August 2003 build 530d with bus nav and v23 CIP.
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Originally Posted by speuk' post='373926' date='Jan 5 2007, 04:15 PM
I have about 65 albums on a single layer DVD which uses about 2/3rds its capacity burning at a bit rate of 192.
I thought I read about one one here somewhere.
Is that on reason you might only choose to use 2/3rds of its capacity?
BTW interesting to note that dual-layer DVD is readable in the nav slot but if indeed there is a limit on the number of tracks then this may end up being purely a technical attainment.
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This might help with the conversion to MP3....
http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?sto...031221152135219
Then burn the playlist to CD...
http://www.apple.com/ilife/tutorials/itunes/it4-2.html
http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?sto...031221152135219
Then burn the playlist to CD...
http://www.apple.com/ilife/tutorials/itunes/it4-2.html