Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 00:35:46 -0500
Reply-To: Paul Borghese <PAUL98@PRODIGY.NET>
Sender: Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From: Paul Borghese <PAUL98@PRODIGY.NET>
Subject: Re: Suggestions on how to fasten a laptop while driving?
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You can download a program for Free from musicmatch.com that will create
CD's directly from mp3 without any intermediate step.
Paul
-----Original Message-----
From: Per Lindgren <lindgre@ONLINE.NO>
Newsgroups: groupstudy.vanagon
Date: Tuesday, March 21, 2000 10:32 PM
Subject: Re: Suggestions on how to fasten a laptop while driving?
>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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