Does CD player play MP3 CDs?

[don777]

As the title really, it's a 2006 07MY car with boggo CD player. Just wondering if I burn a pile of MP3s onto a CD-R will it play them?

[matg]

Nope

[Grant3]

You could also have iPOD/USB connectivity added, but it's not cheap. TYou could always try Rick -
http://www.derbymotorservices.com/categories/Aston...

[matg]

Paralight system gets good feedback. Not got one myself would like to.

http://www.paralight.co.uk/IpodBluetoothforAstonMa...

[don777]

Don't really want to spend 5 times the price of my iPod to listen to it! If it incorporated Bluetooth as well I might consider it.

I think some of the parrot systems allow you to stream Bluetooth music from an iPhone, any body got any experience of that?

[don777]

matg said:

Paralight system gets good feedback. Not got one myself would like to.

http://www.paralight.co.uk/IpodBluetoothforAstonMa...

Posted before I saw this, this looks more like it. Would it put people off come resale time not being an original factory fit? No more than a parrot I guess!
Anybody got one?

[moveover]

don777 said:

Posted before I saw this, this looks more like it. Would it put people off come resale time not being an original factory fit? No more than a parrot I guess!
Anybody got one?

Yep, it's excellent. I had the lead run into the glove box, so it's completely invisible. You can control it from the front panel, though remembering the various functions takes a while.

[laracer]

Can't speak for the absolute standard Aston CD player but my 2006 Premium CD/Radio plays MP3 CDs no problem

[Vipers]

If you have an I-Pod, buy one of those little gizmos which you plug into it, and it transmits, just retune your radio, and that's it.

http://www.iworld.co.uk/p/Jivo_Utune_FM_Transmitte...

[moveover]

laracer said:

Can't speak for the absolute standard Aston CD player but my 2006 Premium CD/Radio plays MP3 CDs no problem

Really? Are you sure? I have the premium audio system on my 2006 V8V and there is no MP3 capability.

[Ice27]

I have a standard system on my 07 MY V8V and download from iTunes onto CD without any issues. (aac files)

[laracer]

moveover said:

Really? Are you sure? I have the premium audio system on my 2006 V8V and there is no mp3 capability.

Absolutely sure - burned my own MP3 compilations onto CD and they play flawlessly.

I also have a relatively cheap hard wired iPod connection that uses a radio channel (similar to the FM transmitter) but the sound quality is not that great - no where near the quality of the mp3 CDs

[don777]

laracer said:

Absolutely sure - burned my own MP3 compilations onto CD and they play flawlessly.

That's good to know.

I know some players are very particular about type & manufacturer of the CD media. What type are you using?
Thanks.

[Ice27]

I use TDK CD R 80 up to 52x speed.

[don777]

Thanks I'll give them a go when I get my car back.

[laracer]

don777 said:

That's good to know.

I know some players are very particular about type & manufacturer of the CD media. What type are you using?
Thanks.

To be honest I just used what I had lying around - Traxdata 40x speed CD-R 80 minute

Edited by laracer on Friday 11th February 17:07

[shunt]

Just tried burning a disc of mp3's. Comes up as unreadable, but they were cheap discs, I'll try a better quality disc tomorrow.

[moveover]

shunt said:

Just tried burning a disc of mp3's. Comes up as unreadable, but they were cheap discs, I'll try a better quality disc tomorrow.

This is the same message as I get with my premium audio. And it's a Verbatim CD so you can't get much better than that. I suspect that those who claim to be able to play MP3 CDs have in fact burned a conventional music CD in iTunes from their MP3 library.

[matg]

moveover said:

This is the same message as I get with my premium audio. And it's a Verbatim CD so you can't get much better than that. I suspect that those who claim to be able to play MP3 CDs have in fact burned a conventional music CD in iTunes from their MP3 library.

I think you may be right.

To those people who have burnt an CD with MP3's on how many tracks or albums are on the CD?

[laracer]

matg said:

I think you may be right.

To those people who have burnt an CD with MP3's on how many tracks or albums are on the CD?

Just looked into this - I have realised the downloaded mp3 files were burned as an Audio CD through Nero - so sorry for the confusion

Edited by laracer on Friday 11th February 20:54