Tuesday, Jul 04, 2006 at 14:57
Theo, MP3 files are solid state if they are in a digital MP3 player but if burnt onto a CD will play in anything that can handle MP3 files. So they will skip, or rather stop and pick up again after a second or two, on bad corrugations like normal CD files.
Some MP3 CD players have an input for your digital player for when the going gets really bad.
Mine doesn't and I was worried that I should have spent a bit more money but I was happy with the performance. If I go back to
the Tip in September and the corrugations are so bad through Heathlands that I can't listen to music for that section - about 90 minutes or so - I won't be too disappointed. I will be too busy driving.
The advantage is of having 70 or so normal CDs fitting onto half a dozen CDs. And if they get scratched or damaged on the trip, just burn another CD from your computer where you are keeping all these files. Set it to random play and have tracks playing from a dozen different CDs. No need for a stacker.
MP3 does this by compressing the files by taking out the frequencies that the human ear can't hear. They say that it is equivalent to FM radio quality, but most people including me can't tell the difference from the original.
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