mp3 help needed please
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i now have a lovely mp3 playing blaupunkt head unit in my griff,which plays mp3 on mmc's as well as cd rom.trouble is i havent a clue about mp3!id like to know the following.is mp3 really free on the net?can anyone recommend a website that i can get general pop/rock from, with a slight bias toward the 80s?how much playng time can i get on a 64mb mmc(apparently bit rate of unit is 8-320k bit and i have to format with "fat 16")if that makes any odds?and lastly is it possible to transfer some of my cds onto mmc through my pc and if so do i need to buy any add ons for my pc?-sorry for so many questions-cheers,mv
Right then, first things first.
www.slsk.org
This is a P2P sharing program that runs over a non central protocol. Remember all that stuff about Napster, well this is pretty much the replacement for it. Download the software, install it, fire it up and search away. Basically you submit a search to the protocol and it searches many peoples hard drives all over the world for the tune that you are looking for. These are all COMPLETELY free of charge. So, in summary, fill yer boots (and yer hatchbacks).
Generally speaking MP3 is encoded at around 1mb a minute. So, at fairly decent quality (assuming that your car doesnt have a complete reference set up) the loss in quality will be indistinguishable. Therefore on your 64mb card you will get around an hour of music, or up to 10 hours on a normal CD.
As for the transfer of MP3's from CD to MMC yep, thats not a problem. If the original source CD is an audio CD you will need to rip the music off the CD and encode it to MP3 and then transfer it across to the MMC via a reader/writer (connects via USB cheap as chips). If the source CD contains MP3's then it will be no problem to just drag and drop files off the CD onto the MMC.
HTH
Matt.
>> Edited by plotloss on Wednesday 23 April 09:48
www.slsk.org
This is a P2P sharing program that runs over a non central protocol. Remember all that stuff about Napster, well this is pretty much the replacement for it. Download the software, install it, fire it up and search away. Basically you submit a search to the protocol and it searches many peoples hard drives all over the world for the tune that you are looking for. These are all COMPLETELY free of charge. So, in summary, fill yer boots (and yer hatchbacks).
Generally speaking MP3 is encoded at around 1mb a minute. So, at fairly decent quality (assuming that your car doesnt have a complete reference set up) the loss in quality will be indistinguishable. Therefore on your 64mb card you will get around an hour of music, or up to 10 hours on a normal CD.
As for the transfer of MP3's from CD to MMC yep, thats not a problem. If the original source CD is an audio CD you will need to rip the music off the CD and encode it to MP3 and then transfer it across to the MMC via a reader/writer (connects via USB cheap as chips). If the source CD contains MP3's then it will be no problem to just drag and drop files off the CD onto the MMC.
HTH
Matt.
>> Edited by plotloss on Wednesday 23 April 09:48
many thanks for the info plotloss.im really surprised thats all the music i can get on a mmc.i was told it would be "many hours".considering the cost of the mmcs is it worth bothering with them?why not just use a cd-rw? anyway if i do use mmcs, what software do i need to buy to convert my audio cds to the mmc mp3 format? thank again-mv
you don't need to buy any software to rip your own cd's, download a copy of Musicmatch Jukebox (Basic) or WinAmp
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