MP3 player

[aggie]

In my Altea/Toledo the CD player has MP3 stencelled over the CD opening but there is no where to plug an MP3 player in or information in the hand book. So, can anyone please tell me what its all about. aggie

 

[TOL3DO]

Just asked the same question myself but it could just mean that the cd player plays music in a mp3 format meaning the cd can have around 100 tracks per cd. There could be a connection somewhere in the glove box or armrest also if you haven't already looked?

Update: From the reply I received from my question I believe it just means that the cd player plays cd's in mp3 format.

 

[Devoured1]

I've got an aux input in my Altea, it's in the centre console in front of the hazard light switch.

 

[iain1970]

It does play MP3 discs.

 

[aggie]

Great thanks for the info but how do you make an MP3 disc ie get 100's of tunes on one disc or has it got to be a special disc? or what?

 

[Mao]

When you burn a disk there should be an option to make and 'audio disk' or 'mp3'. If youre burning it using I tunes the options appear once you select 'burn playlist to disk'.

 

[Muttley]

You need a CD writer attached to your PC (most PC's these days can write CD's) and some writeable CD's. Use CD-R not CD-RW - most MP3 playing CD readers don't like RW (rewritable) disks. Depending on the player, you may be able to use CD+R disks as well - these are just another type of writeable disk. Again, avoid CD+RW and CD-RAM disks. Check the manual for your player to find out what kinds of disks it can play, but pretty nearly everything will play CD-R

Burn a collection of MP3's to disk using Itunes or similar software. There are many tutorials on the net, a couple of them are here and here.

You don't have to use iTunes, there's lots of freeware MP3 organisers that can burn playlists to CD.

CD-R's are dirt cheap, 20p or less per disk, so you don't have to fill it right up. Have a few with different playlists on them. Depending on the length of the tracks you can get well over 100 on a CD-R.

Depending on the player, you may or may not get track titles shown on the display.

 

[aggie]

Ok Muttley I will give it go and see how I get on. Thanks again you are a star. aggie

 

[Slimy]

CD-R's are dirt cheap, 20p or less per disk, so you don't have to fill it right up. Have a few with different playlists on them. Depending on the length of the tracks you can get well over 100 on a CD-R.

I probably wouldn't recommend filling it up anyway, it can get very confusing where your favourite track is! And if it's anything like my old MP3 player, it would scan the disc to find out what was on there first, before presenting the list. And that could take a minute or so. (Hopefully that idea is confined to the dustbin, along with that same MP3 player!)