Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 03:20:05 +0100
Reply-To: Per Lindgren <lindgre@ONLINE.NO>
Sender: Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From: Per Lindgren <lindgre@ONLINE.NO>
Subject: Re: Suggestions on how to fasten a laptop while driving?
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Brent,
Have you noticed on your CDRs they are marked like 650 Mb/74 min?? YEP!
That's it! 74 minutes on the 650 Mb disc, yeah, that's it!! And oh, just
a guess, could .cda stand for Compact Disc Audio??? I think so.
PerL
BRENT CHRISTENSEN wrote:
>
>
> A slight correction, Calle:
>
> You must convert the mp3 files to .cda files (not .wav files) in order
> for them to be played on a regular CD player. This *used* to involve
> the intermediate step of creating .wav files and then in turn
> converting them into .cda files. However, I now have a program called
> "MP3 CD Maker" or something like that which works quite well
> converting the mp3 to cda and burning the CD-ROM, all on the fly. It
> is even easy to use, and was about $30 as I recall. I can p-mail
> details if anyone is interested.
>
> One note - the .cda files are almost five times the size of a typical
> mp3 file, so you can only store about 100 minutes of audio on a 650 MB
> CD-ROM (as apposed to about 600 minutes of mp3 audio)
>
> Brent Christensen
> '89 GL Syncro Westy
> Santa Barbara, CA
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM]On
> Behalf
> > Of Calle Fallberg
> > Sent: Monday, March 20, 2000 11:26 PM
> > To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> > Subject: Re: Suggestions on how to fasten a laptop while driving?
> >
> >
> > Hi David !
> >
> > Why bother ??
> > Get a CD burner, convert your Mp3´s to .wav files and burn ém!
> > Works great for me, and as a bonus I´m able to play - or
> > share - my music everywhere where there is a CD player,
> > and use the big buck CD player/speakers in the Vanagon !
> > Not to mention the amount of free space I created on my PC
> > when all the music, pictures, saved files and "temporarily
> > unused" files (400Mb of fonts, wiringdiagrams, screensavers
> > and other Vanagon related "must have" ) were removed :-)
> >
> > Calle Fallberg
> > -88 Vanagon
> > Mullhyttan , Sweden
> >
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