portable mp3 /cd player wont play mp3s

[superraton01]

I just bought a Philips Expanium 103,
a portable mp3/cd player. it will play cds.
but it wont play mp3s that I burnt onto
pacific digital cdrs with a ricoh cdrw.
i know the burnt mp3s are good because
they play on Real Player on my puter!
bad mp3 player or what? cant contact
Philips. What going on here?

[Warthog]

Could be the CD-Rs? Doubtful that they wouldn't play AT ALL, although I have some really, REALLY cheapo CD-Rs that don't play in my portable cd player. Perhaps try another brand, if you can. Have any different brand blank ones or already burnt lieing around?

Does the cd work in your computer or in another cd player?

Warthog

[superraton01]

these cdrs are blue on the bottom. but the
error message is "nF" which im guessing stands for not finalized.
how do i finalize these cdrs? i burned them with packetCD, part of the ezcd 4
program, but there is no "finalize" button.

[Cody]

Oh lord.

I don't know if that PacketCD program will let you burn AudioCD's...

Try a program such as Easy CD Creator (5).

Packet Burning uses a different filesystem, I believe.

[Warthog]

What is Packet CD? I have Easy CD Creator 4....just use the "regular" burning program. Sorry, someone please explain to me where this "Packet CD" is.

Warthog

[superraton01]

ezcd 4 has several parts, one of which is packetCD. packet cd formats a cdr so
you can write to it like any other drive.
my hard drive is c: and my cdrw is
d: . I go to dos (how primitive but i like it) and at the c: prompt enter move *.mp3 d:
or copy *.mp3 d: and the cdrw moves or copies
the mp3s. but it apparently doesnt finalize them! time to dump packetCD i thinK.

[shawnr]

A CD-R needs to be "closed" before a player can access it. If you are using Easy CD you can go back and close the CD. Packet writing is the format for making rewrites. To burn the CD in MP3 format use the "create Data CD" option (the audio cd option will decompress the MP3s). Use CD-R not rewrites!

[This message has been edited by shawnr (edited 08-11-2001).]

[RayH]

Long story short, apparently there are many protocols for MP3!

Apparently MP3 refers to protocols of MPEG (x) LAYER 3. Such can be MPEG 1 Layer 3; MPEG 2 Layer 3; MPEG 2.5 Layer3; and perhaps there are more. But each has the file extension known as .MP3

The problem is that the device may only recognize the LAYER 3 of certain MPEGs. Adaptec 4.x rips in MPEG 2 and MPEG 2.5. Such MP3 files won't work on devices that only recognize MPEG 1 Layer 3s.