Rav4 Excel or Dynamic

[Roger_N]

17 hours ago, Zora2018 said:

thank you!! 😄 Exactly my logic 😄 I've burnt 60+ cds so far.  Works a dream in the car. Even remembers which track I was listening to if I remove the USB!  The only drag is it seems to sort the tracks in alphabetical order rather than Album track list - anyone know if I can change this perhaps???  

Have a look at this site, free to down load but I'm not sure what you can do without buying.

I've used the program for years I find it very good.

https://www.poikosoft.com/

[Yugguy1970]

19 hours ago, Vainona70 said:

No don't subscribe to Spotify, as you've already paid for the music on CD!

We use Spotify as we can cast it to the various speakers/google/alexa type devices we have.

I also like it for its playlists of similar music.

I have probably 300 CDs in the garage.  And no time to burn.  (badumtish 🤣)

[Centaur]

3 hours ago, Roger_N said:

Have a look at this site, free to down load but I'm not sure what you can do without buying.

I've used the program for years I find it very good.

https://www.poikosoft.com/

That looks like a handy piece of software.  I have a few CDs copied onto a very old Apple iPod in, apparently, M4A format.  Is that the best one to use or would you suggest one of the others.  The FLAC format suggests that it's lossless, so presumably better quality, but does it use a lot more storage?

[Roger_N]

5 minutes ago, Centaur said:

That looks like a handy piece of software.  I have a few CDs copied onto a very old Apple iPod in, apparently, M4A format.  Is that the best one to use or would you suggest one of the others.  The FLAC format suggests that it's lossless, so presumably better quality, but does it use a lot more storage?

Yes full fat flac  files are the same size as a CD but you can adjust the quality and size.

As I said it's free to download I have used the site for years and had no issues, I would suggest just giving it a try as we all have different hearing and what might be good for me might not be right for others.

In most cases it will do all the track and art work for you. (ripped the CD in just over 2 mins)

 

 

File size between Apple lossless and flac

[Rigsby]

I find that for use in the car with all the road noise, wind noise etc mp3 files at a decent bit rate is fine for my use, if you are are listening at home on an expensive hi-fi then maybe look at something else.

[philip42h]

18 minutes ago, Rigsby said:

I find that for use in the car with all the road noise, wind noise etc mp3 files at a decent bit rate is fine for my use, if you are are listening at home on an expensive hi-fi then maybe look at something else.

+1 for that ...

Taking Fleetwood Mac's Gypsy as an example - from the above the FLAC version is 44MB, the M4A version is 29MB and my MP3 is 6MB. It's almost certainly not such good quality but for the car and average MP3 player I'm not going to notice the difference. 😉

[ernieb]

+1, even if it was significantly noticeable when the car is stationary as Alan has said when the is being driven it’s unlikely to be an issue using a poorer format and but rate.

It’s also true that as people age it’s unlikely that even in a studio that they could really tell the difference, or enough of a difference to impact on their enjoyment of the music. 

[Cyker]

In my Mk1 I used to compress them to 80 or even 64kbit, at 32kHz joint-stereo, and normalized and compressed the dynamic range too for good measure, just to be able to fit them on (The car predated automotive USB so I was using a CD-changer emulator - It only supported the original SD card standard, which maxed out at 2GB!  )

Thanks to the road noise, Toyota's impressively unrefined diesel engine, and tinnitus from too many metal gigs back in the day, the decrease in sound quality was totally unnoticeable to me