HELP! I am an MP3 virgin and embarassing my 11yr old son!

VixxAnn

My son has just got a personal CD player that apparently has MP3 playback facility (I don't think it records - it has no card, memory or anything like that)

How do we get MP3 CDs for him? Do I download them and if so where is best (& cheapest?)

I must admit that I bought him the CD player - I thought is was a "proper" MP3 player as well as thats how it read in Argos. However, obviously, I am a complete divver and know nothing about this kine of thing

Please help me appear slightly cool to my son and tell me how to figure this thing out - so that by the time he gets back from Scout camp on sunday afternoon I can impress him :rolleyes:

rogerramjet

Umm...I'd like to tell you but it's been stated in another thrad that even discussing how it's done is not allowed.

I assume this will even include saying what to type in search engine.

Daft...totally daft

Mattjimf

to make mp3 cd's you just burn any mp3's you happen to have onto a cd. easy as pie. Nothing illegal if you have bought the mp3's from online stores, unless they are security encoded.

baz.jaq

CD's cost money, if it were me I would return the player and purchase an MP3 player as a replacement. This is a solid state (small) item with a 'hard drive' on to which music can be loaded from a PC. Put 'MP3 player' into google and you will get loads. I got mine from play.com for £34 p&p inc and it holds 50 songs.

-TangleFoot-

Try looking over Creative Commons listed sites; Magnatune for one is good, or so I've heard.

There are also MP3-CDs available in the shops. They're not all that common, and are seldom compared favourably to conventional audio-CD, but they do have the advantage of being able to contain more stuff.

Here's one: The Complete Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy (MP3-CD Audiobook). Don't buy it; you'd be much better off with this version instead.

sra

rogerramjet wrote:

Umm...I'd like to tell you but it's been stated in another thrad that even discussing how it's done is not allowed.

I assume this will even include saying what to type in search engine.

Daft...totally daft

As I understand the rules - and I'm not perfect -

It's perfectly okay to discuss converting things and transfering things.

It's discussing how to break or get round a protection system - which the cd/dvd manufacturer put there for a reason - that's banned

thanks

rogerramjet

baz.jaq wrote:

CD's cost money, if it were me I would return the player and purchase an MP3 player as a replacement. This is a solid state (small) item with a 'hard drive' on to which music can be loaded from a PC. Put 'MP3 player' into google and you will get loads. I got mine from play.com for £34 p&p inc and it holds 50 songs.

Umm...yes they do cost money, however, each cd can hold up to and over 10 single albums or 700mb of data. If you read one of the other threads tesco are currently selling off 25 cd's for 99p. thats 0.0396p per disk. mp3 discs can also be played in most dvd players these days and also some car stereos so your not restricted to just the personal mp3 players.

on the not posting anything which *may* be used to break copy protection most mp3 players come with software to convert wav (audio) files to mp3 and on that note if the cd player hasn't come with that software I suggest doing a search on google for "wav to mp3"

boogiemaster

On a basic music Cds the tunes are made in Wav format! Wav format is high quality audio but takes up a lot of space on the Cd.
Mp3 is a compressed version of the wav file and isn’t as good quality as a wav file.

One tune on a cd can be as big as 30 meg? But converted to an mp3 can be as little as 3 meg? Big difference and making a cd hold about 700+ mp3 tunes on a basic cd.
Compared to 20-30? On the same cd.

I buy sample cds for making music and they come in mp3s to cut down on size, I have to get a converter to change them back to wavs for the sound quality.
And this is not illegal because it states so in the copyright aggrement.

rogerramjet

Been doing a bit of reading on the forums and heres a link for you

http://forum.moneysavingexpert.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi?board=Tech;action=display;num=1097870471

Pink.

Hi rogerramjet,

I've been following this thread, but I don't understand the point you are making with your link. Please can you explain?

F1F1

Pink-winged wrote:

Hi rogerramjet,

I've been following this thread, but I don't understand the point you are making with your link. Please can you explain?

If I were you, I would <with respect and appreciating the help people have been offering> forget all the stuff about converting. For your <or your son's> purposes and for simplicity, take the player back to Argos as someone has already suggested, and get an mp3 player. Then you're just dealing with mp3 files.