I know this is a stupid question and I almost certainly think the answer is no, but if I burn a CD with MP3s and stick it in the in-dash, will it rip the mp3s into the music box?

Like I said, I think I recall reading that it has to be a true CD with WAVs.

I have a 120 minute mix I want to get into music box but have no way of getting it in there because a CD can only do a max of 80 minutes.

 

Looks like I found the answer.

Assuming this is accurate: https://g35driver.com/forums/attachm...3&d=1188755403

It has to be burned as an actual CD.

 

being nitpicky here, but when you burn mp3 files to a CD, and "rip" them off, you're not technically ripping, but rather copying the files.

Ripping technically refers to the process of copying audio/video from a media format to a format storable on a storage device. Since the CD with files burned to it is really technically data storage device and not a regular audio media, it's not really ripping.

so the real answer is, yes you can rip MP3s burned to CD-R audio discs, but you cannot copy mp3 files from a CD-R data disk to the music box.

 

Yeah poor choice of words, ripping is from a not so friendly PC file system to a PC(like) file system, but you know what I meant.

 

The reason I said ripping was I was under the assumption the Musicbox didn't use MP3 format it used some other compression in some unique file system. I guess I thought it'd have to RIP the mp3s from a PC file system, convert them into whatever it accepts, and then park them on it's proprietary file system.

Regardless, not the right forum for this discussion. I could be wrong about the car not using XFS, EXT2/3, or FAT or about it not using MP3s but frankly I don't really care. Taking the HDD out of this car is not a viable option anyhow.

 

Just get some 2GB Flash cards and put your music on those. You'll get a better bit-rate than you would if you (could) move it to the HDD anyway.