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Anyone seen or heard or used this new AIWA head unit? It's the CDC-MP3 at http://www.aiwa.com/ I would love to have one. It looks very revolutionary.
I can't wait. I'm gonna start burning MP3's on my CDR's ASAP, (enough acronyms?). Just imagine 140 songs per CD. You could carry your whole collection in one CD case!!
Anyways - I think I'm sounding like an ad now.
Tell me what you think guys! I'd love to hear your reaction.
Shawn
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Posts: 68 | From: San Jose, CA | Registered: Oct 1999
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The reason you can get around 140 songs on a CDR is because the CDR is taking the mp3's as packets of data. One mp3 is about 3 to 4MB depending on the length and one CDR can hold about 650MB of data so do the math 650/4 is about....160 mp3's. When you burn regular songs, the file size is much larger around 50MB per song, which equates into much fewer files. The new CD/mp3 players will take this into account and look for the smaller files sizes and do the automatic conversion that software packages like Winamp do.
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In other words, a cd that says 74 minutes, means 74 minutes of "uncompressed", regular audio. Mp3's are "compressed" and as such lose some of the quality of regular CD music. This isn't to say that you'll even notice it, but sometimes you will. It all really depends on who ripped it and how well they done it. I know about this melvon that rides around with a striped down pc right now and a 8 gig hd full of songs. Why? I really dont know.
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Yes, you will always lose some sound quality, but that depends on what types of programs you use to rip and compress the song. If you get top of the line software, you get top of the line mp3's. If you get shareware or freeware crud off of the internet, then you get cruddy mp3's. Hey mp3's aren't for eveyone. I got about 415 songs on my comp, some of them sound terrible and some of them sound great. You just have to take the time to find good quality songs. Finally about the in car PC, hey Rockford has already come out with a concept mp3 changer. This is the wave of the future. Just like DVD and in car theatrics, mp3's are hot and everyone is getting on board. So hop on!!!
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The problem with the Rockford one from what I can tell is that it's Flash memory driven. If this is true, 64MB costs about $300. Or you could have a player like the Aiwa that costs $1 for 700MB. Flash memory is neat, but the costs are extraordinary. What would you pick? 64MB might hold 15 songs. I think Rockford is taking an idea that is good 10 years from now to today. The capacities and price just don't warrant it.
Oh - and I just visited their web site. The largest they have is 32MB cards. So, I'd guess you'd get about 7 songs per card or 1MB per minute, (32 minutes of sound.)
Enough rambling!
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