Being that my box is fairly new, on the way home from DQ the other day I noticed the symbol WMA on the stereo. I got to thinking that my little creative MP3/WMA player takes both formats too. Previously I had read that the WMA format reduces the size of MP3 file almost half, so I thought I would try to convert all my music files to WMA and directly copy them to a regular CD.

Wow, it worked. Now if the average file is 3-6 MB, then lets say the average file is 5 MB. A CD would be capable of holding 140 songs. So I tried it. It works. The only thing I do not get is the title and artist’s name scrolling across the stereo.

Not sure if anyone else knew that they could put that many songs on 1 CD, but I thought I would share. So also in theory, if you could put 140 WMA songs on a CD, you should be able to put 70 MP3 songs on 1 CD (haven’t tried that yet).

Well, I thought I would share.

 

Yeah, this is a known thing to a lotta people but worth posting. I have CDs with over 140 songs on them. Definitely beats having a CD with only 12-19 songs on it. lol..

The only thing that sucks is that the stock scion head units do NOT read CD-RW (rewritable) disks... which means if ou have FULL CD, you have burn another NEW CD in order to add a song or two...
- sh00k

 

you only get 140 songs on a disc?

damn..

 

i want to have a mp3 deck that will read mp3s/folders off a DVD disc. now THAT would be sweet!

 

My numbers are conservative, but a DVD-RW full of WMA or MP3s would eliminate the need for many iPods.

 

it sure would, it is as big as the biggest Ipod nano. i wish the cd decks were capable of reading DVD discs.

 

Only 140 songs? I've got the Scion Sampler CDs 1-9 in MP3 format (about 113 songs in 9 folders, 160kbps bit rate) on a single disc no problem. It displays artitst/track info on the display also. There was over 100MB unused on the disc too. I could have gotten a lot more than 140 songs I bet.

I guess how much you can fit depends on what kind of quality you have on your original MP3s.

 

I have an '04... No WMAs for me. Sucks!

But yeah, I've gotten so used to MP3s I forgot what having a regular 12 song disc was like!

The days of the "CD changer" are long gone.

-THE DON

 

How many songs you get will all depend on the bitrate your MP3/WMA's are ripped at. I personally prefer a high bitrate, so the average full album comes out around 70-100MB. Thus I get about 10 full albums on one MP3 CD. If I went with the lowest bitrate, I could probably get double that or better.

I also am waiting for the day where you can play a DVD burned with MP3s. One thing I saw that I really want in a HU is a front USB port. One that you could plug in a flashdrive full of music and the stereo would play from that. There was one at Best Buy late last year, but it was some no-name brand stereo.

 

Yeah, I have found that 160kbps is pretty good esp. with the sound retouch that adds compression to the MP3s, sounds really good. I do prefer 192kbps or better for the home though. But then again, I'm not an audiophile either so I'm no expert.

A flash drive option on a HU would be cool, but make sure it has memory and shuffle. My old one reset when you turned the key off and only played in alpha-order. What a POS.

 

My albums ave. 40 to 70 MB.

I have a u2 cd with 13 albums on it but i never counted how many songs that are on it.

that is great that i can have a holder of 20 cds and have around 200 albums to choose from.

 

scion doesn't do RW? My '05 plays CDRW's just fine.

 

Lol, yea, can you believe it? These "cavemen" are only able to fit 140 songs on a disc...


haha!

 

yah mine does too
what year is your box midtowndesi?
i have the 04 6 disc changer in my 05 and it plays RW's
my 05 single disc played RW's too

 

blacklisted - i have an 06 box, not an 06.5 ... I tried only a single CD-RW though - I may try another brand... I dont mind burning just CD-Rs tho... because I mainly use my laptop for music, etc.
- sh00k

 

I need to figure out how to convert some of my protected AAC iTunes songs to MP3 so I can burn them to MP3 disc. Seems Apple doesn't want us to have this option. There must be a way other than burning them to an Audio CD and then rip from that. That's the only decent way I've found so far. I have about 7000 songs and probably 100-200 of them are these protected files.

 

Are you on the PC or Mac? You might try ImTOO Converter http://www.imtoo.com/wma-mp3-converter.html. It's supposed to be able to convert these. I would also make sure your settings in iTunes are set to rip into a regular MP3 format and not AAC. That way you can use your MP3s however you want to going forward. Good luck!

 

dbpoweramp....thats a good converter. I have a cd that has only about 260 songs and thats with like 300+mb left