I am getting a JVC SX-980 and I was wondering how the mp3 part of it worked. I dont know anyone who has a cd player that plays mp3 encoded cd's so I know nothing about how im supposed to burn the cds? Do I just burn a data cd with mp3's? Can I use a CD-RW and play songs of it, then go back and put more songs on and take some off and it would still play? Thanks for your help.

 

Well, you do need to burn them - you can label the songs and folders for different albums ( if you want to spend the time ) , I've used both data and audio - both work. As far as adding after burned I've tried this, since you don't finalize the CD you can go back and add BUT I've noticed all it does is re-write the intire CD ( even if its not a CD-RW ) I don't see this really working to many times. This could also have to do with the program you use and if you can save the burn job you've done, it will not start the burn AFTER the already present burnt media. Mp3s are reall nice - save alot of space and keep your orginals at home away from thieves ! plus its reall cool having every album of one band on one CD.

 

a friend of mine has an mp3 deck, and he just connects his mp3 player to a port into the deck and plays music off his player.

 

it's called an Auxhilary (sp) jack usually labeled AUX j/k

I burn them as data cd's and my deck's book said it supports 50 seperate folders and 250 mp3's per folder and it plays every last one of them... The only drag to an mp3 cd is the fact that it takes a hair longer for it to load the cd because it has to read thru ALL the files on the disk, mp3 or not, and build a temp playlist of just mp3 files, but it's not that bad, definitely worth the wait for the ammount of cd's you can cram on one Saves me time when I wanna listen to some blink-182, just pop in one cd with ALL their songs from EVERY album and it goes

 

if u use a program like CDDB (CD database if u didn't know) it can automatically name the tracks and directories for you. you should have to record the songs on to the cd as data not music, that (recording as music)usually converts the songs over to wav files before recording, some programs might differ though (but I have never ran into 1). aux jacks r for cheapos.