MP3s playing poorly on my head unit

[Davess4 10+ year member]

hey everyone.

I am having trouble playing MP3 CDs in my car.

I have a Panasonic Head Unit

http://catalog2.panasonic.com/webap...51&itemId=61892

What I have been doing is ripping my Audio CDs to MP3s on my computer and then burning them as MP3 CDs to listen to in my car.

The CDs sound fine before I rip them, The MP3s sound fine once they are on my computer, and once they are on the CD, they still sound fine on my computer, but when I play them in my car they have dozens of little glitches in them.

This didn't always happen, I have had this head unit for almost 2 years. I assume it is something about the way I am ripping the CDs or how I am burning the MP3 CDs. but I have tried a whole bunch of encoder settings. I am using the recomended Bit rates for the head unit... I'm stumped.

Does anyone have any advice? I'm worried my speakers are going to get messed up. Some of the glitches make terrible noises.

-Dave

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[pscmj84 10+ year member]

Sounds like your computer is stumbling a bit while its encoding. Try not to do anything while your computer is encoding mp3s (close all other programs, etc). Go into the settings of whatever program you are using and make sure thread priority is high. If it has an on the fly mp3 encoding option try turning it off. Try using a different CD drive. My DVD burner messes up while ripping mp3s, my CD writer does not.

When burning your mp3 cds, burn slower and don't do anything else while you are burning your cd. Surely one of these solutions will fix your problem.

Personally I use 192 kbps for the bitrate on mp3s. I find that really isn't a difference between 192s ripped on the very high quality setting and the original as far as sound quality goes.

 

[Davess4 10+ year member]

Thanks, I'm gona give those ideas a try.

 

[Shugarra 10+ year member]

What are you using to rip and encode? Exact Audio Copy + Lame do an extremely good job at creating quality mp3s.