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Undertoad · 12-16-2002, 10:59 AM

Everyone replied while I was writing that. Misc:

The Clarion does support long filenames and scrolls the name as it plays the file. Which is what you want.

I have a CD ripper that will assign track numbers as the first item of the filename. So I've settled on a format for containing everything I rip. If I rip and convert Ivy's "Guestroom", for example, I wind up with a folder and sub-folder:

\Ivy
--\Guestroom
-----\01-Let's Go To Bed.MP3
-----\02-Kite.MP3
-----\03-Say Goodbye.MP3

etc. That way, the albums stay together and in order, and I can select by album to burn MP3 disks. The filename doesn't contain the artist, but I generally know the artist and don't need that to be part of the scrolling filename in the car.

Also, I've kinda settled on a bit rate of 160. I guess I should use that VBR but I wanted to know that I was ripping in a format that any player could play. I don't know if all players can play VBR MP3s. I do know that my flash player can't handle low bitrates.

I started ripping at 192, but the file sizes were large enough to limit a single CD of MP3s to about 5 albums, and that's not enough. I doubt I could tell the difference at even 128 in the car, which is not the ideal listening room to start with, but you never know where these files will be used.

12-16-2002, 10:59 AM	#6
Undertoad Radical Centrist Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Cottage of Prussia Posts: 31,423	Everyone replied while I was writing that. Misc: The Clarion does support long filenames and scrolls the name as it plays the file. Which is what you want. I have a CD ripper that will assign track numbers as the first item of the filename. So I've settled on a format for containing everything I rip. If I rip and convert Ivy's "Guestroom", for example, I wind up with a folder and sub-folder: \Ivy --\Guestroom -----\01-Let's Go To Bed.MP3 -----\02-Kite.MP3 -----\03-Say Goodbye.MP3 etc. That way, the albums stay together and in order, and I can select by album to burn MP3 disks. The filename doesn't contain the artist, but I generally know the artist and don't need that to be part of the scrolling filename in the car. Also, I've kinda settled on a bit rate of 160. I guess I should use that VBR but I wanted to know that I was ripping in a format that any player could play. I don't know if all players can play VBR MP3s. I do know that my flash player can't handle low bitrates. I started ripping at 192, but the file sizes were large enough to limit a single CD of MP3s to about 5 albums, and that's not enough. I doubt I could tell the difference at even 128 in the car, which is not the ideal listening room to start with, but you never know where these files will be used.