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<blockquote data-quote="blazian87" data-source="post: 8607244" data-attributes="member: 574798">the only brand HU I know of that can play DVD mp3&#039;s is JVC. Back then there was no such thing as mp3 CD players until it came out one day and bam! every HU has it now. A true audio CD player only reads .wav files, nothing else. A lot of the converters out there converts the song into 128kbps mp3&#039;s and then you burn it back into a CD and you&#039;ve just lost like more than half your music quality there. Then you pass it along to a friend and they convert it down some more, and so even if you reconvert it back to 320kbps, you will never get back what you lost. Flac is pretty much the best quality u can get but comes at a cost. It takes up too much damn space. It&#039;s rare that you&#039;ll find a flac player in headunits but they are out there. mp3&#039;s in general just saves so much time moving everything back and forth, which is why it became the standard. Apple came up with the m4a format, which is also very good. If I were to integrate those 200 CD&#039;s in today&#039;s world, I would just convert them into the highest bitrate mp3 and store them all in a good sized hard drive. Keep the CD&#039;s stashed away safe for backup and avoid potential scratches.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="blazian87, post: 8607244, member: 574798"] the only brand HU I know of that can play DVD mp3's is JVC. Back then there was no such thing as mp3 CD players until it came out one day and bam! every HU has it now. A true audio CD player only reads .wav files, nothing else. A lot of the converters out there converts the song into 128kbps mp3's and then you burn it back into a CD and you've just lost like more than half your music quality there. Then you pass it along to a friend and they convert it down some more, and so even if you reconvert it back to 320kbps, you will never get back what you lost. Flac is pretty much the best quality u can get but comes at a cost. It takes up too much da[COLOR=black]m[/COLOR]n space. It's rare that you'll find a flac player in headunits but they are out there. mp3's in general just saves so much time moving everything back and forth, which is why it became the standard. Apple came up with the m4a format, which is also very good. If I were to integrate those 200 CD's in today's world, I would just convert them into the highest bitrate mp3 and store them all in a good sized hard drive. Keep the CD's stashed away safe for backup and avoid potential scratches. [/QUOTE]

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