Ok so I bought some music. Which I haven't done in a long time, because I used to steal it by downloading it. Anyways I can remember making data discs from the music I downloaded and I could play them in the mp3 player in my truck. It was no problem. However, when I try to make data discs off of the music I bought, it won't play in my truck. It will just say err.

However, I did buy some download-able mp3's off of Amazon, which I was able to burn and play. But the music I burned off of the cd's won't work on the data disc. I have also tried converting it from wma to mp3, but that doesn't work. Does anyone have any suggestions? Could this be a copy right problem?

4/9/2010 5:56:33 AM

It sounds like a copyright problem, but it could be a host of problems.

First indication is that the Amazon files work - which are all DRM-free. However it could be that the files are encoded at a bitrate too high or too low or otherwise incompatible with your truck player (CBR vs VBR, etc.) Check the stats on those.

If you need a converter I use MediaCoder Audio Edition and MPEG Encoder Standard. The latter is better but the former is free.

4/9/2010 6:36:46 AM

Wow, I finally got it to work. I used this software called Free CD to MP3 Converter 3.0 to convert all the cds to mp3 then I used my burning software to burn it. I'm really glad it worked. I believe it was a converter problem. It worked better when I converted it directly off of the CD to mp3 using that software. Thanks for your help man.

4/9/2010 7:22:54 AM

um that's theft. you did not buy the music in the form of mp3, and therefore you have just stolen from the label.

4/9/2010 9:25:46 AM

.........

you're not serious.



fair use, mothafucka

4/9/2010 9:58:08 AM

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"Wow, I finally got it to work. I used this software called Free CD to MP3 Converter 3.0 to convert all the cds to mp3 then I used my burning software to burn it. I'm really glad it worked. I believe it was a converter problem. It worked better when I converted it directly off of the CD to mp3 using that software. Thanks for your help man."

*shudders violently at the transcoding atrocities*

4/9/2010 10:24:35 AM

they have these things called iPods...

4/9/2010 10:31:24 AM

why anyone uses anything but http://cdexos.sourceforge.net/ is beyond me

4/9/2010 10:31:53 AM

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"you're not serious."

of course not

4/9/2010 12:29:32 PM

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"why anyone uses anything but http://cdexos.sourceforge.net/ is beyond me"

YEEESSSSS... I thought I was the only one

I keep sourceforge hot, mang.

Note: This is why you always buy from Amazon or some other DRM-free source. Bump iTunez and their craptastic software. Yes you can get DRM-free from them, but why patronize a system built on controlling things end-to-end? Also, flash support or die. I spent a lot of time and money developing for the only system with 98%+ market penetration. I'm not about to abandon all that and switch to HTML5 cause of your 8% market share, hoes. You AND your buzz can suck it - sideways. {/soapbox}

4/9/2010 1:28:57 PM