Posted by Bill G on 01/10/71 11:34

On Wed, 14 Dec 2005 20:38:57 GMT, spam@uce.gov (Bob) wrote:

>On Wed, 14 Dec 2005 13:03:53 -0500, Mike Walsh <spamscks@netrox.net>
>wrote:
>
>>The last time I looked at new cars, a few years ago, I did not notice any factory players that would play MP3s. After market CD players have had the ability to play MP3s for a long time.
>
>The reason I asked is I made a CD with Nero for my son but the first
>song would not play correctly - apparently Nero has problems decoding
>MP3 and converting them into CDAs. So I considered making a CD with
>the MP3s directly, which Nero supports. But then I wanted him to play
>the CD in his car so I backed off that and converted the MP3 to WAV
>with a separate utility and fed the WAVs to Nero for CD conversion.
>That did work.
>
>BTW, has anyone noticed that Nero is one of the most bug-ridden
>applications on the market. There are freeware apps that do a better
>job than Nero.

I've been using various versions of Nero for 4+ years. The only
problem I've run into is that it doesn't make fully compliant SVCD's,
although they do play properly and that's all that matters to me.
Ahead folks know about the SVCD bug but have said it would require a
re-write of the code, and not enough people are asking for a fix, so
it's not going to happen. Plus, as time goes on, SVCD is probably
losing share to DVD anyway. DVD Video and CD Audio have been
completely trouble free for me.

As you probably know, you can use MP3's to make an MP3 disc, but your
player has to support MP3 format. Or you can use MP3's to make a CD
Audio disc, which plays everywhere. Each has pros/cons.

--
Bill

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