As I have stated before I just steal them from Tower Records! Much better selection- no download wait!!!!!

 

Sly,

Great choice going with LAME. Take it from someone who knows mp3 internals, guys, LAME is the best encoder you can find, bar none. They use the encoding algorithm the way it was MEANT to be used.

 

Dan,

I did a fair amount of research in finding LAME and EAC. The only problem is that I did it AFTER having ripped most of my cd's... So I decided to start over from scratch, but well it's well worth it, the quality is amazing.

The only problem is that it is time to upgrade my pII 300. It daoes take a looooonnnnnnnnngggggg time to encode each song!

 

I agree. I do nothing but 128 for the car (256 for home archives), using Music Match to encode and Roxio to burn, and unless I tell someone they don't know it's an MP3 they're listening to. You definitely have something whacky going on.

When I burn, I just make a data CD and put the songs in folders by artist. I never figured out how to do CD text, and it wouldn't matter anyway - I never open the radio door.

 

Not that it matters to the issue at hand, but I had to tell SOMEONE...just got the last buggie out of my MP3 decoder. Time to clean up the code and start putting together a small PC board with DSP on it

 

This might sound like a simple solution but I've come across it before. Check your EQ settings while it's playing the MP3. On my Kenwood headunit, each play mode (CD, MP3, Radio) has it's own EQ settings. I was wondering why my CDs weren't sounding as good as my MP3s.

 

I don't know what happened the first time, but I burnt a few more disks and everything sounds better. Now, I am having issues with the way the DEH-740MP numbers folders and tracks. Sometimes I have a folder which has no tracks numbered 1-5 but rather starts on 6. I don't know why. Also, for the life of me, I can't get the random function to work at all, not disk wide, not folder wide, nothing. Overall, I like most of this HU, but the MP3 function needs improving.

 

I use Musicmatch to rip and have no problems playing in album track order. Maybe you don't have the tags set correctly. Go into options -> settings -> recorder -> tracks directory -> name track file using: check the boxes for these and in this order: artist, album, track number, track name. This should let you organize your albums (folders) by artist and you should be able to see the ID tags on your display showing artist/album/track/song. I also use Roxio to burn to CD.

 

No, everything is being done correctly by Musicmatch. It's the way that the Pioneer HU numbers the folders and tracks that I don't like. It just makes no sense.

 

Anyone with an Eclipse deck getting their MP3 player to work? I've tried Audio Cd maker and FreeRIP, but neither one works at least in my HU. I'm downloading MusicMatch now to try out.

I've been trying to convert my CD's to MP3's, which doesn't appear to be a problem, but figuring out the correct format when recording to a disc does. Is everyone just burning their MP3's as a data CD or are you using "MP3" specific software? Any suggestions?