What CD gets played in your car?

What CD gets played in your car?

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droopsnoot

11,809 posts

241 months

Thursday 18th December 2014
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JonRB said:
CD? Who on earth still uses CDs?
My car came with a 6-CD changer connected to the radio-cassette head unit. I haven't ever put a cassette in it, though. I added the MP3 player (which the head unit thinks is a second CD changer) as it was a cheap way to get more selection and keep the same head unit. But my main reason for using the CD still is because I like live albums, and I don't like gaps between songs when I play them. If I transfer them to MP3 I either get gaps, or I have to record the whole gig as a single MP3 track which doesn't allow me to skip past a song, or replay one, just the entire gig. If it wasn't for that I probably wouldn't use CDs at all, though I don't use them much as it is.

JonRB

74,394 posts

271 months

Thursday 18th December 2014
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droopsnoot said:
My car came with a 6-CD changer connected to the radio-cassette head unit. I haven't ever put a cassette in it, though. I added the MP3 player (which the head unit thinks is a second CD changer) as it was a cheap way to get more selection and keep the same head unit. But my main reason for using the CD still is because I like live albums, and I don't like gaps between songs when I play them. If I transfer them to MP3 I either get gaps, or I have to record the whole gig as a single MP3 track which doesn't allow me to skip past a song, or replay one, just the entire gig. If it wasn't for that I probably wouldn't use CDs at all, though I don't use them much as it is.
Fair enough.

Just as an aside, though, the gaps are usually put in at the ripping stage rather than by the MP3 player, and on some ripping software you can specify you want no gaps. Very useful.

Anyway, apologies for the digression.

probedb

824 posts

218 months

Friday 19th December 2014
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I can't remember the last time I put a CD in, since having a headunit with a USB port I've not been near them smile

droopsnoot

11,809 posts

241 months

Friday 19th December 2014
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JonRB said:
Just as an aside, though, the gaps are usually put in at the ripping stage rather than by the MP3 player, and on some ripping software you can specify you want no gaps. Very useful.
Cheers, I'll have to look into that as it would solve a problem - I know there's an option to burn CDs without gaps, but I'd always thought the MP3 player added the gap on playback.

JonRB

74,394 posts

271 months

Friday 19th December 2014
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droopsnoot said:
JonRB said:
Just as an aside, though, the gaps are usually put in at the ripping stage rather than by the MP3 player, and on some ripping software you can specify you want no gaps. Very useful.
Cheers, I'll have to look into that as it would solve a problem - I know there's an option to burn CDs without gaps, but I'd always thought the MP3 player added the gap on playback.
I've done a little research and it seems I wasn't entirely correct*. It seems that you need to have ripped your MP3s gapless (eg. the LAME encoder) *and* your player needs to detect that the MP3 is gapless and not put a gap in (many don't).

So I guess it's a case of "your mileage may vary". frown

Edit:
In fact, it looks like the lack of gapless playback is a fundamental flaw of MP3 and these are just workarounds. Does your player support FLAC or Ogg Vorbis?

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gapless_playback#Form...

(* - in fact, in the light of this edit, I'd say more like "complete bks" than "not entirely correct" smile )

Edited by JonRB on Friday 19th December 18:35

SWTH

3,816 posts

223 months

Friday 19th December 2014
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W220 S-Class, 6-CD Changer:
1. Elbow - Live at Jodrell Bank CD1
2. Elbow - Live at Jodrell Bank CD2
3. Stereophonics - Just Enough Education to Perform
4. Status Quo - Piledriver
5. Motörhead - No Sleep 'til Hammersmith
6. Travis - The Man Who

Also a tape-aux adaptor for my iphone.

S124 200TE, single in-dash CD player:
1. Red Hot Chili Peppers - Californication

Land Rover 90 - the sound of a 300Tdi, no audio fitted!

anonymous-user

53 months

Friday 19th December 2014
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TheChampers said:
Mark Hollis - Mark Hollis
If your a fan of Mark Hollis and Talk Talk this book is a good read.
https://wordery.com/are-we-still-rolling-phill-bro...

droopsnoot

11,809 posts

241 months

Friday 19th December 2014
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JonRB said:
Does your player support FLAC or Ogg Vorbis?
Doubt it, but thanks for the references. It's a cheap oriental import that's a good few years old now, though it might be worth asking now they've got a UK importer.

TheChampers

4,093 posts

137 months

Friday 19th December 2014
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Raygun said:
TheChampers said:
Mark Hollis - Mark Hollis
If your a fan of Mark Hollis and Talk Talk this book is a good read.
https://wordery.com/are-we-still-rolling-phill-bro...
Oh wow, thank you thumbup

I love PH sometimes, that looks brilliant! cloud9

Condi

17,085 posts

170 months

Friday 19th December 2014
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Currently got Above and Beyond's album, to be replaced on 19th January by Above and Beyond's new album!!

They are one of the few bands I support and buy their CDs.