Do burned CD's play lower than store CD's?

[Justinw303 10+ year member]

I ask this because I have a good mix of both, and when I pop in a store-bought CD I can crank it up to about 40/50 on my HU and it's really loud, but when I put in a CD a songs I've burned I have tp crank it up to 45/50, and it's not even as loud as 40/50 on the store CD.

Also, is there a difference in burning mp3's to a CD-R and burning mp3's on an MP3 disk? What I'm asking is, if a HU says it cannot read mp3's or it's not mp3 compatible, does that mean it can't read any mp3 on a disk, or only ones on MP3 disks?

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[iagrdshaka 5,000+ posts]

CDs with mp3s burnt on them will not hit as low or as clear as a store bought cd.

 

[Justinw303 10+ year member]

Alright, how about the second question?

 

[Expy2000]

Not MP3 compat. = no MP3 playback period..

What HU do you have that you turn it up to 45-50??

My alpine never sees 25..

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[Mr. Opportunist 10+ year member]

my pioneer never sees 30, i found that my burned cd's hit harder then store bought...

 

[smgreen20 10+ year member]

MP3 is a format. As far as I know, there's no such thing as MP3 discs. It's a CD-/+R disc burnt in MP3 format. If a cd is burnt in MP3 format, a non-MP3 player can not read it.

 

[DJItalianICE 10+ year member]

to answer the OP:

it depends. sometimes people **** around when they burn CDs and compress it too much and the bass seems like the first thing to go. some people rip at high quality and it turns out fine.

 

[chinny 5,000+ posts]

depends of the song quality you download and burn into your cd, in some cased the 256bit quality and 192 hits the hardest and sounds the cleanest..

 

[chinny 5,000+ posts]

^^ Duh

 

[Justinw303 10+ year member]

MP3 is a format. As far as I know, there's no such thing as MP3 discs. It's a CD-/+R disc burnt in MP3 format. If a cd is burnt in MP3 format, a non-MP3 player can not read it.

Ok, that doesn't really make sense. What about those disks that people load up with 100+ songs and they call them mp3's?

Here's what I do.

1)Download .mp3 files using Ares.

2) Open WMP.

3) Insert CD-R.

4) Burn playlist of 15-20 songs, or however many minutes the CD holds(74, 80, etc.)

I'm confused because I'm looking at a $100 HU that is not MP3 compatible.

However, the absolute P.O.S. HU I have now has no problem playing the above-mentioned CD. How do I know it's P.O.S.? The brand is Optimus. My dad bought it used from some guy at work for about $50. It's 5-7 years old.

 

[AznRevlAzn 10+ year member]

Wow dude, No such thing as an MP3 disk. It's justa data Disk witht eh MP3 FIles. Use Nero and pop in a cd, then drag and drop your MP3 files onto the disk and burn. You can have up to whatever your Head Unit Supports. I believe mine only supports 9 folers and withen those folders 9 other folders and blah blah blah.

What you were doing was wasting disks and burning them in CD Music Format not Data Format.

 

[kuijo 10+ year member]

Not sure if understand what is not to understad, get it?

But if you want to make am MP3 CD you have to burn it using the Data burning program and u can fit like 200 or something like that.

And if you want to use the mp3s to put it on a cd that all cd players can read. You use the audio burning program.. but then techinally its not an mp3 cd and you can only fit like 20 or so.

 

[Justinw303 10+ year member]

Ok, that makes sense. Thanks.

 

[SmokeAlot 10+ year member]

i know the answer so please read......mp3's have a little lower quality then the factory cd, just a little that you wouldnt be able to tell....teh reason why it has less volume is when you burn the mp3's on to a cd, your computer automaticly sets the volume for it.......to increase the volume, you can download a program like acid 4.0 and raise the volume by like 1/2. and you can also raise the quality so much that one song could be like 7mb.

ohyea...when you burn a real "mp3 disc" with folders and stuff....it uses the 700mb instead of teh 80 min audio on the blank disc. thats why u can fit more songs burning a mp3 disc instead of a regular disc. but mp3 disc are shitty cuz the quality sucks.

 

[kuijo 10+ year member]

You can fit more songs because mp3s take up less memory. When burning a cd using an audio program it converts them to .cda's. Mp3 disc can be as shitty are as awesome as their bit-rate. Shouldn't generalize them like that.