Newbie123 Posted February 1, 2004 Report Share Posted February 1, 2004 Want to get all my CD's converted to MP3 and then download them on to memory cards in anticipation of my car arriving. The detail of the DVD satnav and MP3 player says the following......... The MP3 readers enable digital music downloaded from a PC and stored within space efficient MP3 memory cards (MMC and SD formation) to be played through the Audi audio system. As each memory card is capable of holding hundreds of tracks, an entire easily accessible music collection can be transferred from home to car and back in a jacket pocket. So which formation is better ? MMC or SD ? Any recommendations on make of memory cards and where to buy them. I'm also going to need a memory card reader I assume, but I think I've seen these for about £20. Any tips, recommendations appreciated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Punjabi-A4 Posted February 1, 2004 Report Share Posted February 1, 2004 not an xpert by any means...but was looking into to this for my mobile phone which can take both MMC and SD cards....generally sd cards are slightly faster and more expensive. if your looking in to putting music on media cards then you will have to start thinking about what bitrate you will convert your cd's too? that will then govern how big the card will be. MMC cards i've seen have been about 256MB in size (although don't know how large they go) where as SD cards can be up to 1GB in storage size. personally if it's for music i'd convert something to about 192kbps bitrate mp3 and then have a 256mb card which is about £50-60...you should be able to get 2-3 albums on there no probs. sd/mmc card makers such as Sandisk,Viking,kingmax,lexar should be fine...check out www.7dayshop.co.uk or www.ebuyer.co.uk for decent prices. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Newbie123 Posted February 2, 2004 Author Report Share Posted February 2, 2004 Thanks for the tips raman, gives me a good starting point Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
18ME Posted February 6, 2004 Report Share Posted February 6, 2004 I was going to post something similar as I'm speccing this new system too. But what I want to know is, what is MP3? I'm not really that old but I've never downloaded music before, but if I can save some money by not speccing the CD autochanger, I will. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snail Posted February 7, 2004 Report Share Posted February 7, 2004 MP3 is a computer music format. Basically its a form of audio compression, so one CD can contain almost 100 tracks of almost CD quality music. It also has the advantage of track titles etc encoded into the file, so a decent stereo will actually show you what is playing, without you needing to look on the cd sleeve. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Newbie123 Posted February 7, 2004 Author Report Share Posted February 7, 2004 [ QUOTE ] I was going to post something similar as I'm speccing this new system too. But what I want to know is, what is MP3? I'm not really that old but I've never downloaded music before, but if I can save some money by not speccing the CD autochanger, I will. [/ QUOTE ] I think you'd be better off adding the CD autochanger as well, beacuse when it comes to resale most people buying a car like that will want a CD player as they're unlikely to know what MP3 is either. Basically with MP3 all you need is some software like Musicmatch or you can use windows media, then just put your CD's into your pc and use the software to covert them into MP3 format and store them on your harddrive. Then just download which songs you want onto the memory cards (you'll need a card reader c£20). How many songs you get on a card depends on the memory size that you buy prices start at about £20 for 64MB up to about £150 for 512MB........ dabs What I'm not sure about is how many songs you can get per MB, I'm sure someone on here will now the answer........ But as Snail says, instead of the display in the car saying CD1 track 5 it will actually display the name of the artist and song, plus the sound reproduction should be improved over standrad CD. But the main benefit is effectively being able to create your own albums for use in the car. Should be buying my reader and cards in the next couple of weeks once the car is confimed as built. I'll be able to give you more insight then. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Punjabi-A4 Posted February 7, 2004 Report Share Posted February 7, 2004 If an mp3 was encoded @ 192kbps then say a 3min song would be around 4.3MB or a longer 4min30sec song would be about 6.5MB. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Newbie123 Posted February 8, 2004 Author Report Share Posted February 8, 2004 [ QUOTE ] If an mp3 was encoded @ 192kbps then say a 3min song would be around 4.3MB or a longer 4min30sec song would be about 6.5MB. [/ QUOTE ] Cheers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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