Is there an audio CD player that plays MP3?

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Do you know of an audio CD player, connectable to
an analog amplifier (or receiver), that can play MP3
files off a data CD as well as audio off a conventional
audio CD? I've got lots of MP3 music and old radio shows
that I want to play thru my home audio system. But converting
the radio shows to WAV format and burning to audio CD
format would take way too much time and to many CDs.

thanks,
chuck

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On Mon, 24 May 2004 20:34:44 GMT, chuck <cciafNOSPAMfone@earthlinNOSPAMk.net> wrote:
>Do you know of an audio CD player, connectable to
>an analog amplifier (or receiver), that can play MP3
>files off a data CD as well as audio off a conventional
>audio CD? I've got lots of MP3 music and old radio shows
>that I want to play thru my home audio system. But converting
>the radio shows to WAV format and burning to audio CD
>format would take way too much time and to many CDs.

Use a DVD player that can play mp3s.

Leave the video unconnected and pretend it's a CD player.

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chuck <cciafNOSPAMfone@earthlinNOSPAMk.net> wrote in news:E%ssc.24855
$zO3.6105@newsread2.news.atl.earthlink.net:

> Do you know of an audio CD player, connectable to
> an analog amplifier (or receiver), that can play MP3
> files off a data CD as well as audio off a conventional
> audio CD? I've got lots of MP3 music and old radio shows
> that I want to play thru my home audio system. But converting
> the radio shows to WAV format and burning to audio CD
> format would take way too much time and to many CDs.
>
> thanks,
> chuck
>
Both of these cd players have mp3 playback capability, and I'm sure
there's more. Try Google.

Onkyo DX-C390
Denon DCM-380/280

HTH,
--
~sethra

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On Tue, 25 May 2004 22:12:57 +1000, "TonyP" <TonyP@optus.net.com.au>
wrote:

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>"TCS" <The-Central-Scrutinizer@p.o.b.o.x.com> wrote in message
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>> Use a DVD player that can play mp3s.
>> Leave the video unconnected and pretend it's a CD player.
>
>Leave the TV connected or you probably won't get any real track display
>unfortunately.

That depends on how cheap the machine is. Most decent machines have
a display and, frankly, I wouldn't bother with one that lacks it.

Kal

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On Thu, 27 May 2004 12:11:58 +1000, "TonyP" <TonyP@optus.net.com.au>
wrote:

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>"Kalman Rubinson" <kr4@nyu.edu> wrote in message
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>> On Tue, 25 May 2004 22:12:57 +1000, "TonyP" <TonyP@optus.net.com.au>
>> >Leave the TV connected or you probably won't get any real track display
>> >unfortunately.
>>
>> That depends on how cheap the machine is. Most decent machines have
>> a display and, frankly, I wouldn't bother with one that lacks it.
>
>There's displays and then there are displays. My machine gives you the track
>number and time, just like many others, but to see the titles you need a TV
>display.

Agreed. I do not know of any CD or DVD players that have a title
readout although there are SACD players that have one. My objection
is to the cheapest of the DVD players that lack any display.

>The number of DVD players I have seen that provide a title display on the
>front are quite small indeed. Even then you only see one track at a time.

Which are those?

>For CD's it doesn't matter, but if you have a couple of hundred MP3's on a
>disk, it's nice to be able to find what you want.

Probably. Not ever having made a CDR with more than a dozen or so
tracks, I've not faced that problem.

>Personally I find a computer *FAR* better for playing MP3's, or maybe an
>iPod.

Agreed.

Kal

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On Thu, 27 May 2004 14:44:31 +1000, "TonyP" <TonyP@optus.net.com.au>
wrote:

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>"Kalman Rubinson" <kr4@nyu.edu> wrote in message
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>> Probably. Not ever having made a CDR with more than a dozen or so
>> tracks, I've not faced that problem.
>
>The whole idea of creating an MP3 CD is to fit a *lot* more than a "dozen or
>so tracks".

I understand that but I have no reason to do so. I listen almost
exclusively to classical music and have no need to copy them, let
alone to a compressed format.

>I particularly like my in car player, 10 hours per disk change, and no boot
>space needed for a stacker.

I am the opposite. I have a changer in my glove compartment which
still has the single CD I put in to test it at install. Somehow
another has appeared. Neither is played much as I prefer to drive.

Kal

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Lots of car CD players play mp3s. Some have line outs. A 12V supply
can be cheaply built and you can mount it in a junked Fisher or Scott
receiver chassis after you have excised the opt's to put them in
Fender guitar amps. (Or any 70s solid state receiver with modular SS
output sections.) Many car audio shops have a sort of oversized
Greenlee punch they can cut the regulation sized hole in the front
neatly, if after removing the front glass it isn't already the right
height.

I did this with an old tube type Narco ADF, which makes a great AM DX
receiver with lowband and a BFO for tuning.

As an aside, Delco car radios from the early solid state era-post-MM
and pre-Madonna-have great FM sections that will rival many vaunted
vintage units (although not McIntosh MR78 or some broadcast monitors)
and can be modified for line output or for IF output with a early
multiplex adaptor. The unit designed for tube Macs can be built today
as a hobby project because James Millen Co. offers the IF cans. Old
70s car radios are avilable very cheaply and will run forever. And are
easy to fix if they do die, as they are all discrete, and many parts
units float around.

Recycling. Makes for a happier planet.