Title pretty much sez it. I got a down level radio, the one with CD and tape player in the radio, no six disc CD player. Can it play mp3 discs?

Jim

nope...mp3's are a data disc, the radio only reads audio....

nope...mp3's are a data disc, the radio only reads audio....
Oh, that's strange, I've seen lot's of audio mp3 for sale. Wonder why folks would
sell DATA mp3's as AUDIO mp3's. strange world.

Jim

Oh, that's strange, I've seen lot's of audio mp3 for sale. Wonder why folks would
sell DATA mp3's as AUDIO mp3's. strange world.

Jim
It's not so much what they play, it's what type of files they are written as. Our stock CD players read WAV. files, which are files that are uncompressed of which the MP3 layer is one component. Audio files are written on a disk as one giant data file, even though they may 180+ individual audio songs, it' still written to the disc as one giant file. WAV files are written so that each song is an individual file on the disc. So an MP3 disc may contain audio, but it's in a form that is unreadable to regular CD players. Hope this helps.

Mp3's are written as an individual file also, per song. It is just that the player will not read and decode the mp3 format, which is compressed. The reason you can get more songs on a cd is because of the compression involved. It doesn't write all the songs as one giant file, they are individual and each song has it's own filename. GM puts stereos in some vehicles that will decode the mp3 format, as well as play regular audio cd's, but they are marked "mp3" on the stereo itself.

GM puts stereos in some vehicles that will decode the mp3 format, as well as play regular audio cd's, but they are marked "mp3" on the stereo itself.

Thanks, that was what I was looking for.

Jim