Anyone know about car MP3 players?
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One dual layer DVD (single sided) is about 8.5Gb
One Audio CD (not MP3) is about 70 minutes.
So thats 1050 minutes or 17.5 hours of uncompressed music on a DVD
But MP3s compress ... assuming a decent quality (squash it by 1/6th) ...
That's about 105 hours of MP3 music on a DVD
At an average of 90kph that's 9450km
Brisbane to Perth (and back) plus some sightseeing.
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Awright, call me bored but ...
One dual layer DVD (single sided) is about 8.5Gb
One Audio CD (not MP3) is about 70 minutes.
So thats 1050 minutes or 17.5 hours of uncompressed music on a DVD
But MP3s compress ... assuming a decent quality (squash it by 1/6th) ...
That's about 105 hours of MP3 music on a DVD
At an average of 90kph that's 9450km
Brisbane to Perth (and back) plus some sightseeing.
Yes, I know, incredibly sad![Smile](https://britishexpats.com/forum/images/smilies/smile.gif)
One dual layer DVD (single sided) is about 8.5Gb
One Audio CD (not MP3) is about 70 minutes.
So thats 1050 minutes or 17.5 hours of uncompressed music on a DVD
But MP3s compress ... assuming a decent quality (squash it by 1/6th) ...
That's about 105 hours of MP3 music on a DVD
At an average of 90kph that's 9450km
Brisbane to Perth (and back) plus some sightseeing.
Yes, I know, incredibly sad
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My player in the car plays CD's and MP3's and i can plug my IPod into it, Alan got it for me for xmas last year (much much better pressie than this years but i digress)
It's excellent
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Oh it's a Sony something or other!
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