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[steroidmaximus]

wondering is such a thing exists, is worth buying, and how much?

[Confused Canadian]

They certainly do exist. I had a new CD player installed a few months ago (Pioneer). It ran 160,000 won, only plays audio CD's, and was the cheapest one the guy had in stock. He had another Pioneer model that played mp3 CD's, but I didn't have a need for it. Don't remember the exact price, but think it was around 200,000.

Confused Canadian

[U.S.A.]

Yep. They do exist. In fact, I have one in my car and it's sweet. I can put well over 100 songs on one disk.

One thing, though, I now wish I had done was to get a CD player that also worked with wma files in addition to mp3 files.

A lot of the content you can buy from music services is in wma format.

[itaewonguy]

yeah I bought mine 4 years ago! an ALPINE..
mine just plays CDR, they have them now for DVD, MP3, WMA, etc.. everything.. make sure you get one with a DV out so you can plug your MP3 player into it.. noooowwww thats COOL ER!!!

[Demophobe]

[itaewonguy]

[Demophobe]

Well, I can fit hundreds of MP3s on a single cd.....heck, some of the players even read DVDs now....thousands of songs.

If you don't enjoy having disks laying around the car then why have a player at all? Besides, having 5 or 6 CDs in the glove compartment (thousands of songs) is no big deal.

I'm not saying it's totally useless for you...I just don't see the point.

Any 1/4 inch to RCA cable will work with a multi-plug adapter on the back of the unit.

[Bulsajo]

Portable MP3 player with the FM broadcast thingy. Then worry about battery life rather than the type of media.

[itaewonguy]

[Demophobe]

Ok...i am no authority on car audio MP3, but man....if an MP3 player's LCD beats a Kenwood car audio deck's display, then there is a real flaw in MP3 car audio players.

Again...it's hard to believe that they would make a deck that plays MP3's but it hasn't an easy search function or a counter that lets the indexed songs on a cd be entered on the deck somewhere.

For example, if I put in an MP3 CD with 400 songs, the deck indexes them, then lets me choose one from 1 to 400 via entering the digits on the deck using aliases on the various control keys.

If this isn't possible (and I really don't know if it is or not, but I would assume it is), then yes, and MP3 player with an LCD is good.

If it is possible, then an MP3 player in a car equipped with an MP3 playing-deck, is useless.

[itaewonguy]

[Demophobe]

[Demophobe]

Well, I just had a Sony CDX-R3300s installed....really great unit. Plays MP3s, CD-R, RW, WMA, CDA....very nice sound. Didn't buy an amp, although with only 52w. per channel, it could use some more juice for cleanliness sake.

Anyways...I'm a happier driver now. Burning CDs like mad....

Problem is, it has a tight restriction on filenames...no more than 10 characters. I had to batch rename most of my MP3s...not hard to do with a good batch converter, but still something to think about if you are buying a unit.

[Bulsajo]

Can you throw up the name of the batch converter? I know it's been posted before in a thread around here somewhere but at the time I didn't have a use for it so I didn't pay much attention. Thanks.

[logan2003]

Well i have bought a mp3/cd player for my car....and well it is nice. Very nice. But if I had the option of a lcd screen........it is MUCH better to be able to quickly get to the song you want. Our little remote does an ok job.

I bought another car that came with a 6 cd changer.......sucks compared to the mp3 player. Switching cd's takes time, and you just do not get the same number of songs, even if you do thats 6 cd's I have to carry around.
If I want to change cd's...stop pop open the trunk, then change em.

LCD screen, and being able to plug a mp3 player directly into the player...a MAJOR plus!

How much was it?