Technical Abarth MP3 Player

[munchy]

I'm told that the Abarth has a built in MP3 player. Does anyone else know about this, and can anyone tell me how to access/use it?

 

[barbarian]

It's part of the SatNav+ system. Just stick a CD in the single disc slot (not the optional 5 disc changer) containing your MP3 files and away you go. I've never got around to trying it, but it is suppose to support directories and upto 10000 files on a single disc.


Barbarian
3dr Stilo Abarth, Leather, Broom Yellow and Sky Window

 

[RaidesBoules]

This mp3 player works very correctly, I mean as well as the CD player does. This mean :
- no pause (just stop)
- no fast forward or reward
- display of tracks/discs names are limited to 8 or 10 characters (not enough)

also :
- the mp3 conversion sounds correct
- if the mp3 ID Tags are filled, the player displays them. If not that's the DOS name of the files that are displayed (8.3 format)
- access speed to tracks is pretty slow
- of course you almost can't use navigation system when listening to a mp3-CD (as the multi player does not accept this)

Use this with a normal mp3 CD : it's a data CD with folders (for example corresponding to the artists names) and mp3 files (at any bitrates) in these folders. If you're not familiar to this, try to crate mp3 compilations on CD-RW CDs (the player accepts them), so you can check if you've done everything correctly.

Ugh... mp3 conversion allows compression of audio-files up to 20 times with "correct" audio quality (64 kbits/s). And the best is not to compress more than 10 times (128 kbits/s). This means that you can store up to 1600 min of audio on a 700 MB CD, this corresponds to 400 songs of 4 min average... not 10000 !!!

Abarth 3-door sprint blue

 

[pjp]

The MP3 works OK, but you MUST normalise the MP3 files or you get horrible clicking noises when the unit is clipping.

What isn't entirely obvious is that if you put albums in individual directories, you can step through the albums one by one by holding the ">>" key for around 3 seconds.

Paul

Stilo Abarth, Broom Yellow

 

[munchy]

Thanks guy's. I'll give it a try.

Mark Brown

 

[rriggs]

If you need some SW to do the normalising - Try this:

http://www.geocities.com/mp3gain/

I found that it worked very well.


Roja

2003 Silver 3-Door Abarth with graphite wheels and all the toys
NOW FOR SALE - SOLD!

 

[munchy]

Thanks. I will.