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I have one of these new alpine head units that can also play mp3's (sorry not going to garage at 11pm to find out which one). After making up a cd with 100 or so mp3s on it i have now tried it in my head unit and it doesn't work quite right.

The problem is that each song takes up about 7 or 8 tracks. So when playing there is a pause as this changes track. This shits me as it can play for 2 seconds then pause again, and do this about 6 times during a song.

I thought is may have been cause i record songs from cd in wma format. I then converted these to mp3 before copying to cd. I thought maybe the problem was in this program. But the songs i have downloaded from winmx in mp3 format also do the same things.

It didn't do this in the shop with their cd.

Can anyone shed some light on this for me?

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I can think of a couple of things that could be causing this:

(1) Try a different type of CD-R - I know that from previous experience Alpine's are a bit fussy when it comes to CD-R / RW.

(2) The WMA to MP3 conversion (why use WMA at all - it is dodgy) - use a good CD Ripping program like CDex to rip your CD's.

(3) Don't use variable bit rate encoding unless your sure the headunit supports it otherwise it will cause problems. I'm not too familiar with the headunit so i dont know if this is the case.

If all else fails take it back to the shop you got it from and get them to check it out - thats what they are there for.

cheers,

Jase

  • 2 weeks later...

yeah last time i went to some audio shop and stuck a cd full of mp3s in and the alpine didn't work ... so i think alpines dont' handle cdr's too well ... most probably the really cheap ones ... try something that you know will give a better reflection of the disk ... i know its hard to find out which ones do, maybe cdrs with an opaque back might be better, i dont' know ...but i guess its the only way ... alot of the cds which are made are from the same manufacturer anyways ... just rebranded ... and different dye colours ... i also stuck the same cd in a jvc and they worked flawlessly, didn't try any other brands .... hope that helps ...

yep i agree .. do not convert wmas to mp3 .. or vice versa ... it just gets shittier and shittier the more you do it ... so i say for best results ... only 1 conversion directly from a cd ... or download a new one from the net :) ... have any of you guys compared the mp3 quality between pioneer, alpine and jvc?? what would u say is the best?? and maybe bang for buck??

thanks

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