Posted by fred-bloggs on 01/28/07 13:35

NRen2k5 <nomore@email.com> wrote in
news:lvOuh.62967$wQ6.793374@wagner.videotron.net:

> anthony wrote:
>> My standalone Pioneer multiformat player (DVD, CD, SACD etc) supports
>> MP3 audio discs.
>> I've made several MP3 compilations using Nero 6, and they've played
>> with no problem.
>> However, I'm trying to burn a compilation of old radio shows and
>> every time the Pioneer reads it as an MP3 disc, but when I press
>> 'play' it comes up with the message 'unplayable'.
>> I've tried halving the number of files I place on the disc; it makes
>> no difference.
>> A typical file says it's 'compression 11 to 1' or '9 to 1', and is
>> 'Mpeg2 Layer 3', with 'encoded by FhG (fastenc or MP3enc).
>> Is there something in that info that suggests why I can't encode an
>> MP3 audio disc with these files? Do I have to recode all 94 of them
>> to WAV format and reencode to a different MP3 file? Help please.
>
> It appears that your player can't play MPEG2 Layer 3 files though it
> can play MPEG1 Layer 3 files. The solution would be to re-encode the
> MP3s in question to MPEG1 Layer 3.
>
> To do so they will have to be resampled to 44.1kHz (they are probably
> less, for instance 22.05kHz or 32kHz right now). I recommend
> dbPowerAmp or foobar2000 for the job.
>

A 32 kHz sampling rate IS MPEG1 (along with 48 and 44.1 khZ), it's the
*half* rates (24,22.05,16) that are MPEG2.

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fred

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