Re: portable CD players

2018-11-12 Thread rhkramer
On Monday, November 12, 2018 08:35:23 AM Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Sat, Nov 10, 2018 at 10:47:11AM -0500, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > > IIRC, a CD holds a maximum of 80 minutes .wav sound. (Around 800MB, > > about 1 MB per minute). A 4 GB holds way more than that in .mp3, > > although a figure

Re: portable CD players

2018-11-12 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Sat, Nov 10, 2018 at 10:47:11AM -0500, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > IIRC, a CD holds a maximum of 80 minutes .wav sound. (Around 800MB, about 1 > MB per minute). A 4 GB holds way more than that in .mp3, although a figure > doesn't come to mind at the moment -- maybe more on the order of 40

Re: portable CD players

2018-11-12 Thread Ben Oliver
On 18-11-10 06:11:34, mick crane wrote: Does anybody know about these portable CD players like Sony Discman ? On the PC I "play stories.m3u" where "stories.m3u" is just a list of mp3 files from librivox.org If I put them on a CD will Discman play them, with a menu select

Re: portable CD players

2018-11-10 Thread rhkramer
On Saturday, November 10, 2018 09:54:17 AM mick crane wrote: > It has to be CD as a person doesn't have access to a computer or > anything so I thought about sending them a cd player and story discs. For the price of an inexpensive (less than $5) solid state MP3 player, a small SD card (again,

Re: portable CD players

2018-11-10 Thread David Wright
On Sat 10 Nov 2018 at 07:41:21 (-0500), rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > On Saturday, November 10, 2018 06:49:02 AM Brad Rogers wrote: > > On Sat, 10 Nov 2018 07:15:26 + > > mick crane wrote: > > > > >that's what I wondered and what exactly is an "audio disc" ? > > >Can I make one from mp3 ? > >

Re: portable CD players

2018-11-10 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, mick crane wrote. > It has to be CD as a person doesn't have access to a computer or anything so > I thought about sending them a cd player and story discs. Then let's achieve it. If the GUI programs are defiant then we can force success by command line.

Re: portable CD players

2018-11-10 Thread Brad Rogers
On Sat, 10 Nov 2018 14:54:17 + mick crane wrote: Hello mick, >It has to be CD as a person doesn't have access to a computer or If we'd known that at the outset. Still, no matter. We're on track now. As Thomas has said, there are various options when it comes to creating audio CDs.

Re: portable CD players

2018-11-10 Thread mick crane
On 2018-11-10 12:11, songbird wrote: mick crane wrote: Does anybody know about these portable CD players like Sony Discman ? On the PC I "play stories.m3u" where "stories.m3u" is just a list of mp3 files from librivox.org If I put them on a CD will Discman play them, w

Re: portable CD players

2018-11-10 Thread rhkramer
On Saturday, November 10, 2018 06:49:02 AM Brad Rogers wrote: > On Sat, 10 Nov 2018 07:15:26 + > mick crane wrote: > > Hello mick, > > >that's what I wondered and what exactly is an "audio disc" ? > >Can I make one from mp3 ? > > Certainly you can, but why bother? Just buy an mp3 player.

Re: portable CD players

2018-11-10 Thread songbird
mick crane wrote: > Does anybody know about these portable CD players like Sony Discman ? > On the PC I > "play stories.m3u" > where "stories.m3u" is just a list of mp3 files from librivox.org > > If I put them on a CD will Discman play them, with a menu sel

Re: portable CD players

2018-11-10 Thread Brad Rogers
On Sat, 10 Nov 2018 07:15:26 + mick crane wrote: Hello mick, >that's what I wondered and what exactly is an "audio disc" ? >Can I make one from mp3 ? Certainly you can, but why bother? Just buy an mp3 player. They tend to be cheaper, have no moving mechanical parts and therefore less

Re: portable CD players

2018-11-10 Thread mick crane
On 2018-11-10 08:16, Thomas Schmitt wrote: Hi, mick crane wrote: > Does anybody know about these portable CD players like Sony Discman ? Only from times when music CDs were to be bought in real shops. > "stories.m3u" is just a list of mp3 files from librivox.org > If

Re: portable CD players

2018-11-10 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, mick crane wrote: > > Does anybody know about these portable CD players like Sony Discman ? Only from times when music CDs were to be bought in real shops. > > "stories.m3u" is just a list of mp3 files from librivox.org > > If I put them on a CD will Discman

Re: portable CD players

2018-11-09 Thread mick crane
On 2018-11-10 06:52, Brad Rogers wrote: On Sat, 10 Nov 2018 06:11:34 + mick crane wrote: Hello mick, If I put them on a CD will Discman play them, with a menu selection ? Portable CD players of that type are usually audio CD players, they won't play .mp3, .ogg, or any other file type

Re: portable CD players

2018-11-09 Thread Brad Rogers
On Sat, 10 Nov 2018 06:11:34 + mick crane wrote: Hello mick, >If I put them on a CD will Discman play them, with a menu selection ? Portable CD players of that type are usually audio CD players, they won't play .mp3, .ogg, or any other file type, for that matter. Insert a non-audio d

portable CD players

2018-11-09 Thread mick crane
Does anybody know about these portable CD players like Sony Discman ? On the PC I "play stories.m3u" where "stories.m3u" is just a list of mp3 files from librivox.org If I put them on a CD will Discman play them, with a menu selection ? Are they ATRAC or something ? Any part