100 Mp3S On 1 Cd

[Crasstoe]

Hi all,

Recently I discovered that the Auris' standard CD player can play MP3 files which are not burnt as an Audio CD. I now have all the decent stuff (100 songs in total) from the Red Hot Chilli Peppers Discography on 1 CD now instead of 7 which is brilliant. Now my question is does anyone know how to improve on this? I know a 800mb CD rather than the 700mb CD would be an improvement but can anyone advise any other tips/methods without sacrificing bit-rate?

I know DVDs come in GB capacity's, are there any CDs in the GB region?

I look forward to your replies :)

C

[Mooly]

The CD "rainbow books" define the standards, the "orange" book covers recordable optical formats.

CD refers to a disc that complies with the original red book standard and that gave a playing time of 74 minutes (0.65gb) The 80 minute CDR's (0.7gb )and any CD over 74 minutes technically are not compliant with the original standard and machines may not even play these correctly as the space used for margins and tolerances were used to squeeze more data in.

The Auris recognises .wma files which Windows can burn these at 64kbs and that gives a file size of around 25 to 35mbs per CD give or take. Quality is better than MP3 and in the car that bit rate is fine... try it.

[jettech]

without sacrificing bit-rate

Without downgrading the bitrate it will not be possible. I am not sure what bitrate did you use but if it is ie 320 kpbs you could still shrink it a little. If you use good codec like LAME then there will be no difference and you may gain 2-3MB on each file.

[wastedagen]

Before I installed my adaptor I used wma at 64 kbps. This is ok but I did tend to hear some artifacts in the music. Not all songs mind. So I ended up using a happy medium of 80 kbps. This gave good audio playback with about 160 - 180 songs. At 64 kbps I could get up to 223 songs on a 800mb disc.

[Crasstoe]

Thanks for the speedy replys :)

I'm just annoyed that in order to connect any reasonable device would set me back £80 for a damned cable!

[Cyker]

I encoded mine at 32kHz 80kbps and joint-stereo; Sound quality is noticeably worse but because my Yaris is so noisy that you can't tell

[wastedagen]

Thanks for the speedy replys :)

I'm just annoyed that in order to connect any reasonable device would set me back £80 for a damned cable!

I wish it was. I paid £157 for mine but I can honestly say I don't regret it. I spent ages looking for a company that did a compatible adaptor with my sat/nav unit. Maybe it was dearer because of the sat/nav I dunno. But finally with help from tavy I used Dension Adaptor......

Here is my install if you are interested....

http://www.toyotaownersclub.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=118606&st=0&p=1066858entry1066858

[tavy]

...Here is my install if you are interested....

http://www.toyotaownersclub.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=118606&st=0&p=1066858entry1066858

well done !

[Crasstoe]

That's the same box I was looking at!

Does it work with the steering controls etc? And does it stop the bluetooth (not sure if you have the kit, or if its in the satnav) working on the car?

[wastedagen]

That's the same box I was looking at!

Does it work with the steering controls etc? And does it stop the bluetooth (not sure if you have the kit, or if its in the satnav) working on the car?

Yep everything works fine with steering wheel controls. Well at least it does when using usb flash or HDD drives. I'm currently using an old laptop 40GB IDE drive in and external usb housing. Haven't really used the ipod side of things yet. But according to the instructions you can set up the adaptor to either use the steering wheel or stereo unit controls, or use the ipod shuffle wheel controls.

My bluetooth is built into the sat/nav unit and that all works as it should when I get or make a call. music cuts off then resumes when I'm done.

Hope this helps.

[Crasstoe]

Push and hold to go to the phone menu, and then speak your command? That sort of bluetooth or is it different on the SatNav?

If it all works I may seriously consider in getting one of these cables as have 8 100 song CDs (and growing) is going to become a pain in the glovebox!

[wastedagen]

Push and hold to go to the phone menu, and then speak your command? That sort of bluetooth or is it different on the SatNav?

The voice command is on my sat/nav unit not my phone. I personally don't use the voice command on the sat/nav head unit. I think it's pretty poor at understanding names or commands. Never tried my phone (HTC Desire HD). It works by pre-programming (recording) the name of the person you want to call into the sat/nav before hand, then when you want to, you just use voice command using the steering wheel buttons. But first you have to tell the unit you want to use voice command to call someone, rather than voice command to set the sat / nav destination guide...................

Anyways, way too much to do whilst driving just to call someone. So I just program the most used names into the speed dial. You get 17 spaces.

If it all works I may seriously consider in getting one of these cables as have 8 100 song CDs (and growing) is going to become a pain in the glovebox!

Yep it soon mounts up and since I do a fair bit of driving to and from work I love a wide variety of music. I'm up to about 32gb out 40gb of music all sepearted into 78 folders. The instructions do say it will take 100gb drive if needed.