burning audio cds
 

Last time I burnt some cds to play in the van at work I did it in rather a hurry since I only remembered to do it last minute.

Anyway I used roxio media creator 9 i think it was and burnt on maxmium speed onto datawrite titanium cd-r's

I find the cds have a tendacy to skip when played back on the cd player in the van (haven't tried them anywhere else since thats all i really wanted them for since my own car has an MP3 compatable HeadUnit in so I usually burn data discs instead which I never really get any problems with.)

the van is a vaxhaull combo and it has the stock cd30 cd player in it which of course being a company van I can't exactly replace with anything better.

I was thinking of using something like winamp and burning slower this time but are there any pointers for doing it so that you don't get annoying skips and blips during playback.

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burn them slower. I use nero

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short, prescise and correct as usual Zing :D

also make sure you are not doing anything alse on the comp at the same time.

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If you're using Windows I can highly recommend Feurio.

Never had a problem with tracks skipping (in a car anyway)...

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I thought that was probably the case I'd usally burn audio cds slower its just i'd ment to do them the night before and forgot and literally did it before I went into work (had a pretty long journey that day)

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Since we've had these fast writers, I've always burned audio CD's at a maximum 8x. Anything over that and I hear clicks and glitches, no matter the writer or CD media.

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Is it just me or do some cd players seem more tolerant of bad cd's than others.

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that is the case its all in the laser

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Ahh the one in the van is awfull infact earlier it wouldn't work at all.

Popped a disc out but never grabbed it so it took it back in by itself after a while (as most car cd-players seem to) but then it wouldn't play it and it wouldn't eject it either.. just came up cd error when trying to play it :confused:

Might mention it to them when it next goes in for a service but Even if it is playing up not sure they'd do anything about it anyway since its not exactly essential that the cd player works.

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The van player laser could be a bit dusty given its environment, you could try one of those cleaner disks with little brushes on them, available from most £1 shops.

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I use Burrrrn and burn at x8 (slow) and I've never made a coaster yet.

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shouldn't be really... no worse than the average car but i suppose its worth a try.

Someone did say those cd30 players aren't the most reliable things in the world.

Was tempted to get an FM tuner thing but I'm never sure if those are any good or not.

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get yourself an fm modulator and plug your mp3 player into it never need a in car cd again ;)

edit you had already thought of that

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Yeh I was actually considering an FM modulator and one of those Cheapo Mp3 players such as this one.

http://www.aria.co.uk/SuperSpecials/...roductId=27057

I do have a walkman phone but these are cheaper than a bigger memory card for it and if I break it/lose it at that price who cares?!

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the modulators tend to work with amemory stick and dont need an mp3 player

http://svp.co.uk/products-solo.php?pid=1898&prepg=

http://svp.co.uk/products-solo.php?pid=2474&prepg=

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I just got this one....
http://www.amazon.co.uk/iZone-FM101-.../dp/B000RVQEPC

Was looking a cheapo 1gb mp3 players and most of the ones on amazon were £15+ so I decided to spend the extra £5 and get a ZEN stone 1gb

Ok so it lacks a display but i figured its a zen so even if the Fm transmitter turns out to be a piece of junk the mp3 player should be reasonable.

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Let us know how you get on with that transmitter - might look at one for the wife's Zafira.

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Have you tried a less bumpy road? :p:

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Speaking of bumps, there's one on Bournemouth Road, very local to me and it always causes my CD Player to skip, no matter how fast I go over it or what kind of CD I'm playing! It's damned annoying!

I tend to use Verbatim CD media that I buy in a bulk pack of 100 and store in a CD-Wallet in my car, if you burn these max speed then they do tend to skip a bit and the player laser can't find the tracks generally if you're trying to start it off while moving along.

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More new cars should have usb connectors so we don't have to faff about with those round, silver things. Audi take note! flaming cheapskates.

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It would be nice, they are starting to put things like that in slowly....
What's a usb connector cost them? next to nothing that's what and then they could use it as a selling point for the car.

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its not just a usb connector though is it its the necessary electronics for it to do something. I take it you mean modulators not just a usb that will do nowt lol. Wouldnt the simpler idea be for car stereos to have a memory card slot and usb slot instead of the car itself ? ;)

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Some of them do now but I'm not sure that Audi and BMW for eg. have realised this yet :)

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all $1 worth of them?

Lets face it the decoding process is mostly software driven thesedays

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but a usb slot is useless unless its connected to some electronics to use it

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which as I just said probably cost them a whole $1 ;)

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but whats it going to do? it has to have a function. Your saying fit it to a car at no point have you said what its going to do. Does it have a modulator to send to fm or what does it hold your donor card details? your address? a memo pad what.
Unless of course you didnt mean fit it to a car and you meant fit it to car stereos of course

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Simple really have a usb or SD reader slot with the software in the stereo programmed to play back Mp3 files found on the inserted device.

Only thing that might need some more complex software is ipods.

There are Headunits out there that can do this easily.

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ok so what you really meant to say was fit a car stereo with a usb slot not the car then. now if you had actually said that I would have understood but you didnt you clearly said fit it in the car as did UP ;)

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Lol someones being pedantic :p:

All though they could go all out and have a car pc installed as a factory fit option I supose

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pedantic maybe but when someone says fit something to a car you think they actually mean fitted to the car not something thats added to a car and not actually made by those who make the car.

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it could be some stereos seem to be part of the car annoyingly so if one wants to change the head-unit.

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yeah but they are dash fitted bet the player is still made by Bush Pioneer phillips or the like Ive not heard of these building cars yet ;)

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Don't give them ideas i do not fancy a bush car thanks :p:

but its still largely down to the manufacturer of the car as to what the stereo is capable of, they may not make it but i bet they tell the people who do what they want.

Also if you want to go down that route the manufacturer of the car doesn't make quite a lot of the bits in it.
Sometime the whole engine is bought in from a different company.

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It's a right royal pain. When I bought my present car the only option open to me other than the crap, default single shot CD player were an autochanger which consumed the whole glove box or the DVD satnav which cost the best part of 3 grand which would have pushed the cost of the car close to £30K

You can probably get a fascia adapter to fit an aftermarket unit but that's not the point. Manufacturers of so-called "premium" cars should stop taking the preverbial and start moving with the times.

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They will say its to reduce theft.

But is it really necessary to code it to the car?

particularly when its a crappy vaxhuall cd player who in their right mind would wanna nick that anyway!

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I tried it briefly (just to test if it works) with my sony HU in my car and it sounded rather distorted :(

Then I turned the Zens volume down and it seemed ok (must have had it on a very high volume :blush:)

First impressions are that for 4quid its a worthwhile purchase

Now I wouldn't normally use it in my car since I have an Mp3 Cd unit with an AUX input anyway, I'll test it properly when I drive the van next.

Amazon insisted on sending a rather large box which was quite amusing when I opened it to find this small FM transmitter and even smaller ZEN stone

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who loves ya baby :D

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Used the FM transmitter today,in a vaxhaull combo with the cd30 they aren't all that good a lot of noise/interference usually a high pitched whistle that's evident whenever there's low level sound.

Sounded better when used with my Sony HU but then that has an Aux in so i don't need it in my own car.

Ok for 4quid but I would have been annoyed if i'd payed more for it.