MP 3 loading?
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MP 3 loading?
M P 3 radio. After reading 5 pages or instructions I still can not find out where you get the music and how it is loaded into the mp3. Do you use a regular CD.I have lived through the 33/45/ Cassette and disc. I dont want to spend my life reading instructions .Thanks for your help. c6 , 700 miles . What a great ride , even for a grandpa, My grandkids think I am COOL.
Last edited by sedonacorvette; Oct 26, 2004 at 12:39 AM.
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You need to burn your own MP3 files to a CD. I'm sure your grandson could do it in a jiff!
CD songs are WAV files, and they are very big. You can only put about 20 on a CD, before running out of space.
MP3 files are these same songs, after they have been compressed, in size, by a special program. More MP3 songs can fit on a CD. I get 200 on a CD, easily! And, they sound almost as good.
step 1: download MP3 songs off the net. I use filetopia. eDonkey2000 or Limewire.
step 2: use a program, like Nero, to burn those MP3 files, you downloaded, to the CD.
Between me, you, your grandkids and this forum, I KNOW we can do it.
Just think: 6 CDs in the changer, WAY over 1000 songs in there! You'd NEVER have to change the discs! Well, maybe at the 60,000 mile check.
CD songs are WAV files, and they are very big. You can only put about 20 on a CD, before running out of space.
MP3 files are these same songs, after they have been compressed, in size, by a special program. More MP3 songs can fit on a CD. I get 200 on a CD, easily! And, they sound almost as good.
step 1: download MP3 songs off the net. I use filetopia. eDonkey2000 or Limewire.
step 2: use a program, like Nero, to burn those MP3 files, you downloaded, to the CD.
Between me, you, your grandkids and this forum, I KNOW we can do it.
Just think: 6 CDs in the changer, WAY over 1000 songs in there! You'd NEVER have to change the discs! Well, maybe at the 60,000 mile check.
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One has to be pretty computer savvy to convert regular CD's to MP3 CD's... that's where the "younger generation" is helpful.
Gather up all your favorite CD's and just hand them over to a 16-year-old computer nerd along with $20 and the next day you'll have your MP3 music CD's ready to load into your Corvette CD Changer...
6 MP3 Cd's equals about 60-120 "regular" CD's depending on how much you "squish" the music smaller (too small leads to less fidelity).
Here's a thread on this topic already started:
http://forums.corvetteforum.com/show...post1548559541
Gather up all your favorite CD's and just hand them over to a 16-year-old computer nerd along with $20 and the next day you'll have your MP3 music CD's ready to load into your Corvette CD Changer...
6 MP3 Cd's equals about 60-120 "regular" CD's depending on how much you "squish" the music smaller (too small leads to less fidelity).
Here's a thread on this topic already started:
http://forums.corvetteforum.com/show...post1548559541
Last edited by docrings1; Oct 26, 2004 at 09:02 AM.
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for the older and technicaly challenged i will elaborate.
All the Store Bought CD's you have in your house are made in WAV format not MP3. If you want to listen to them in MP3 format you need to convert them using a software that you can find online use a Search engine and search for " WAV to MP3 converter" Create a File Folder called MP3 and convert all your files to MP3 format. Use a high bit rate 128 or more to get good sound quality. The MP3 Converter i use sounds as good as CD's. You can also download already converted songs online using "Napster or other software" then all you need is a CD burner and some blank CDR's and you can get about 200 -250 songs to a CD.
All the Store Bought CD's you have in your house are made in WAV format not MP3. If you want to listen to them in MP3 format you need to convert them using a software that you can find online use a Search engine and search for " WAV to MP3 converter" Create a File Folder called MP3 and convert all your files to MP3 format. Use a high bit rate 128 or more to get good sound quality. The MP3 Converter i use sounds as good as CD's. You can also download already converted songs online using "Napster or other software" then all you need is a CD burner and some blank CDR's and you can get about 200 -250 songs to a CD.
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Originally Posted by LS WON
I don't have the C-6 it is being built but I do have a tiny MP3 but I can't figure it out neither. 
They buy corvette's
-jeff
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FYI,
The system will only read 155 MP3s per CD. So, don't burn anymore to a CD than 155. I found this in the manual, and verified it with one of my own CD with over 200 MP3s on it. Once I got to 155 and hit next, it rolled back over to file number 1, instead of 156.
The system will only read 155 MP3s per CD. So, don't burn anymore to a CD than 155. I found this in the manual, and verified it with one of my own CD with over 200 MP3s on it. Once I got to 155 and hit next, it rolled back over to file number 1, instead of 156.
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Originally Posted by thebiggman
FYI,
The system will only read 155 MP3s per CD. So, don't burn anymore to a CD than 155. I found this in the manual, and verified it with one of my own CD with over 200 MP3s on it. Once I got to 155 and hit next, it rolled back over to file number 1, instead of 156.
The system will only read 155 MP3s per CD. So, don't burn anymore to a CD than 155. I found this in the manual, and verified it with one of my own CD with over 200 MP3s on it. Once I got to 155 and hit next, it rolled back over to file number 1, instead of 156.