WMA & MP3 CD question

[CamrySExxx]

on my aftermarket deck on my gen5 i have a panasonic that states it plays mp3/wma but it doesnt seem to play wma's it will say error and i will have to skip until its a mp3 file. Im not sure why but i dont think they will play .wma files ?? maybe but i havent goten my aftermarket or stock deck to play a wma

[Pipemajor]

The TCH comes with the JBL premium 440w audio w/6 disc changer. I burned an MP3 disc and it plays perfectly - even displays all the text info. I took another disc and burned some WMA tunes on it but the system won't read it at all. Gives an error. I'll have to experiment some more. Hard to do since it's really the wife's car...

[Meperezs]

i know with itunes when u buy music from them and then try to burn an mp3 cd it will skip over all the purchaced music from the store b/c of copyright protection..maybe this is similar

[maxspeed]

use nero...works great...

[BiGGTRD]

Make sure when you burn your data disc with Mp3s a WMAs on it that you "Finalize the CD", I do that when I burn CDs and I haven't had any problems with either WMA files of MP3 files.

[Pipemajor]

Originally Posted by Meperezs

i know with itunes when u buy music from them and then try to burn an mp3 cd it will skip over all the purchaced music from the store b/c of copyright protection..maybe this is similar

Nope. Source was my music CD's I burned to my iTunes library on my laptop computer. I do have one album I purchased from iTunes. I have a bunch of discs so will experiment some more.

[DoubleEdgedWomb]

Burn the songs to a disc image (really a file on the hard drive with the same properties as a CD) in audio-CD format, then use a program like daemon tools or alcohol 120 to load the image onto a virtual drive, and rip the songs back to mp3 using media player. That's how I've been able to get around copy protection, without wasting a bunch of CDR's in the process.

If that doesn't work, you could try playing the songs on your computer, then use a recording program to capture the audio signal being put out by the computer and re-record it into an audio file. The new file will not be copy-protected. Note I mean use software to capture the output of your compter, rather than just holding a microphone up to the speakers. Alternatively, you could loop a cable directly from the speaker jack to the microphone jack and do it that way.

[marc780]

i only download mp3's, period. All these thievin places just use formats that only work in their player program. Its a scam, get it. Forget rhapsody, itunes and all the other crooks, their formats are propietary cause, duh, they make more money that way. I have tried file conversion programs etc. but they are more trouble than they are worth and most dont work anyway.

If you do a search for mp3 downloads, and God forbid any of those site should be illegal downloads, (because this would be wrong, wrong i tell you!) then you can just download your songs and burn em to cd in Nero and it plays in everything.

[costanza]

If you guys read the update to my original post, you'll see what I did to get WMA's to play in my Camry.