Car audio...

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*Kornholio*

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I know there's CD players out for cars that play MP3's, but does anyone know of any that play WMA files too ?? If not, is there an easy way to get from WMA --> MP3 without going via a WAV file manually ??

Also, where's good places to buy car cd mp3 players ? Do any of them have a 'random' function ??
 
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Trem

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I got a Sony one for sale that plays 'em, its yours for £100, 2 months old and still got the receipt;)
 
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caLLous

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He's lying, he has no receipt, he's a thieving bast. That was a very "I'm guilty as fuck" wink at the end there, Tremor. :>
 
K

*Kornholio*

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I don't particularly mind if it has a dented corner from when it fell off the back of a lorry... if it did... as long as it's in good nick & does what I want it to do :)
 
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Trem

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LMAO Cally, I thought that when I put the wink;)

Its the Sony CDX MP30, actually double check that it does play that format but I'm pretty damn sure it does.
 
K

*Kornholio*

Guest
Had a look, it seems to be mp3 only :( I think I'm going for the pioneer...
 
D

dysfunction

Guest
Kazaa is good for "converting" WMA files to MP3
 
S

(Shovel)

Guest
Coverting format. Install the Nimo codec pack then use the Winamp Disk Writer. Easy?
 
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(Shovel)

Guest
Sorry, looking back that was a bit of a crap reply.

Right, WinAmp comes with a plug in called the NullSoft Disk Writer. It outputs Wav files encoded using whatever Windows Codec you have installed.

By default, the MP3 codec in Windows is appauling (56 kbit), but by installing the Nimo codec pack, you get a full MP3 codec support up to 48Khz and 320Kbps.

Combine the two and you can convert any WinAmp readable format (like WMA) and convert to any output format.

I'll try and find the URL for Nimo.
 
D

dysfunction

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Great! I didnt know it had that function...
 
S

Shocko

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You're missing the point... Once sound has been encoded with a lossy compression format, the stuff that was chucked out of the wave is gone forever. When you reencode with another lossy encoding, more stuff is chucked out.

Re-Encoding with lossy formats is allways a bad idea... Whilst you might not be able to tell that it's been encoded to a lossy format the first time, it's possible and even likely that the stuff that the different encoders totally get rid of will clash, and the sound will be of poor quality... I'm no audio-expert, but you want to steer clear of stuff that's been encoded more than once with lossy codecs.

Surely the answer is to just decode the files to wav, and then burn normally? Do you really need to have your the music on your CDs encoded with lossy compression?
 
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(Shovel)

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The point off using lossy compression would surely be to have it all on one disk shocko?

And I know, rencoding to different format is not ideal, but it's probably good enough. Depends on your standards I guess.
 
K

*Kornholio*

Guest
Originally posted by (Shovel)
The point off using lossy compression would surely be to have it all on one disk shocko?
Click to expand...

Bingo :)

The reason I need to do this is because when me & my missus left South Africa, we didn't want to cart over 150 CD's with us, so I stuck 'em all on my hdd using Audiograbber. I never noticed it was putting them in WMA format rather than MP3 because winamp still played them... I don't wanna go the route of encoding to .wav & writing normal cd's because I don't want a cd changer in my car... much easier to just stick the .wma's & .mp3's all on a couple of cd's & just have that :)

Shovel, thanks for the help m8, I'll give that a go later on tonight :)
 
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kryt

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Don't suppose you wanna sell me the cable from the back of your mp30? Forgot to grab mine from my car when i wrote it off >:|
so it's probably amongst a rover flavour metal cube at the minute :/ about to get a new car and wont be able to slap my mp30 in :|
 
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