Do the shaker audio systems play WMAs?

Thanks

 

Yes.. I burned all my CD's using windows media player and they all work fine in the shaker 1000

 

I have never burned an mp3 cd before. Do you just do it like a data file and it will read them automatically.

Thanks

 

Yep !

 

yeah you can just toss the mps on like you would to save them to a disk

MY SUJESTION!!!!
use folders the mp3 player understands 1 layer of folders (IE.. when you open the cd you see a bunch of folders and in the folders you find various songs)

so use folders wheather it be a whole album or just in genre style its much easyer to navigate your songs instead of going trough 150+ songs to find the one your looking for

 

Thanks all! (I thought I was the one graduating with a computer science major)

 

One more question. Is there a limit to how many songs the cd player can read. If i got 50 songs on a cd, will it be O.K. with that.

 

as many as you can get on but probably 999 but with good songs you will only get about 120 - 150 on a cd

 

wow i like the folder thing U KNOW HOW MUCH EASIER IT MAKES EVERYTHING!! now the question is how can u or can u even alternate in between folders

 

If you place the MP3's on the disk without any folders, the player has a limit of 255 MP3 tracks. If you use folders (which is a good idea) there is a limit of 99 folders, with 99 MP3 tracks in each folder. Unless you are listening to short sound clips, there is no way that you can hit these limits before you run out of disk space on the CD. An average MP3 track is 4,000 bytes. Multiply that times 255 and you get 1.02 Gigabytes. A normal CD holds 680 Megabytes.

 

Back to the original question...you were givin some misleading information.

The Shaker DOES NOT play wma files.

.mp3 for compressed discs and uncompressed .wav audio for standard CD's

Those are the only 2 audio formats the Shaker accepts.

 

Perhaps I stand corrected, but normal CD's (like you buy in the store, or burn using software) do not contain files in *.wav formats. I believe the files are in a format called CDA. And I agree with you SixtySix, the Mustang Shaker will not play files in the WMA format.

 

Yeah you're right, It will for sure accept CDA. It should also accept .wav, and .aiff from burning software. Every CD I burn that's uncompressed gets output as .wav audio, none of the software I use has a CDA option.

 

And I agree with you SixtySix, the Mustang Shaker will not play files in the WMA format. [/quote]
All of my CD's are in the WMA format and they all work with mine.

 

I doubt it Sheri. They're probably CDA.

Put one of your CD's in your computer, turn on file extensions and let us know what the extension of the file is.

 

I asked this question a while back and the most knowledgable folks on this topic all said no to WMA's. Now some burning software will give you the option to burn any format audio into a standard music CD meaning they are no longer formated as WMA on the disc. These format discs are playable on ALL players that will read the medium. I use RealPlayer 10 to get my MP3's and the built in CD burning software gives you to option to burn the disc with the files as MP3's, WMA's, and standard format.

I would really suggest RealPlayer Music Store for anyone buying music online... It's a great interface and allows for unlimited burns of all your music (ripped songs too). Although the downloaded files are in RAM format... Their "Harmony" software allow you to copy and play the RAM format on any MP3 player (even iPod).

 

Anybody got any suggestions as to the best burnable CD brands?

 

Umm ALL of my CD's are in WMA format.. I think I would know since I burned them...

 

Just try this if WMA's don't work. From everything I've heard, they shouldn't work.






WMA Converter

 

I'm having great luck with TDK and Phillips. Both work well.