mp3 cd's

[Prometheus]

My brother just got this portable dvd player and he wants to use it for music.....(heathen)

anyway

My parents are forcing me to make cds for him.......but the player only accepts mp3 cds.......

can someone tell me what the difference between a cd i buy off the shelf and a mp3 cd

and

how to make mp3 cd's?

i don't think there is such thing as an mp3 cd..not that i've heard of. I know there is a diffeerence b/w audio cd's and data cd's (the only difference is a few bits of code written to the beginning of an audio cd to identify it as such, otherwise the same). an mp3 cd is, as far as i know, a data cd with mp3 burned to it.

a data cd with mp3's on it is an mp3 cd. thats why you have 'mp3 cd players'. those players have mpeg3 codec obviously and can read data cd's but for all practical uses its just an mp3 cd, but yeah technically its just a data cd with mp3's on it.

to answer your q pro, you just burn as if you were going to dump mp3's on a data cd. the only issue is playing it, you have to have an mp3 cd player.

[Prometheus]

got one

as a follow up, lots of mp3 cd players, especially the portable ones, have limitations on the number of characters they can take in a file name/path, etc. You should burn with the Jolliet (Juliet, i can't spell, it's something like that) file system to be sure. I think this imposes a 64 character limit on names.

well arent cd's you buy in the store in wav audio format? So you can simply convert his cd's form wav to mp3

[Jason425]

they don't register as wav.. but basically.. they are..

they are .aiff

[Napster]

MP3 Cd's are simply songs on your computer saved in MP3 format burned to a cd. This way you use much less space beause it is burned as data and not as an audio disc. I burned one for my friend that had 300+ songs on it. Make sure they are in proper format before burn tho.

[Jason425]

what.. mp3 instead of.. what?