90 hours of music? on one CD

 

There would be no way to open folders

 

thats what i was saying. the head unit is going to see the disk the same as if it were just a bunch of songs whether you load it as individual songs or as folders.....

 

I did some research on the internet about itunes. The software can be downloaded from Apple for free. Next you would download your music CDs to itunes with the download setting in MP3 format. Then create a playlist for the music that you like. Lastly, burn the CD from the playlist which should get you 100-150 songs on a disc in MP3 format. I spent the day downloading CDs yesterday. Hopefully I will burn a CD within the next few days.

 

Not sure how ONEDOWNFIVEUP is cramming 90 hours of
music on one disc....I'd really be interested in this concept.

I'll get approximately 130 songs to each disc, depending on
length of songs.
If the average length of each song is 4 minutes, you will have
520 minutes ( 8 plus hours ) of music minus open space between songs.

8 hours of road-time is a good days ride for us...

 

You won't be able to burn songs BOUGHT from iTunes as an MP3. You can burn a disk in that format through iTunes but you will only get 10 to 20 songs on there depending on the size. You can get DOZENS of songs on a CD if you make an MP3 disk.

iTunes files have copyright protection on them. So again, you will only get a few on a disk if you burn a CD. You can convert the iTunes songs to MP3 files a couple of way.

One, download a cheap or free MP3 converter on the Internet. Do a search on Google. They are easy to find. OR.......

You can burn a cd in iTunes.....THEN, turn around and rip that CD back into your libary as an MP3.....

You can get hours and hours or MP3 files on one disk.......

 

It's suggested you use MS Windows Multi Media as the program for burning as most all Windows System will have a version already installed on the computer. The main thing to remember is your HK Radio Disk Player, on your bike, only recognizes MP3 formatted files or CDA files, if you are using original music disks. CDA files are uncompressed and as such you can only get 20 or so songs on a disk depending upon the length of the song. CDA format is what the music industry uses on original disks. MP3 files are compressed so you can get as many as 250 or more songs a disk depending on the length of the song. When burning your disks don't make folders as you can't open them on the bike. You also treat the burn as though you're making a "data disk" copy. other If you use "audio disk" it will automatically convert your audio files to CDA format and that means not so many will fit on the disk you're trying to create.

Zeus33 kindly wrote up the following instructions for burning MP3 disks using MS Windows Multi Media. It's pretty straight forward it you follow his instructions;

1. The music must be in MP3 format. The HK player won't recognize WMA (windows media) format or any other.

2. You can rip the above format using the windows media player. Just select the options menu item under the "rip" tab and set it to MP3 before you start, otherwise you'll get the wrong format. Then put in your music CD and press the "start rip" button. ( by the way, rip means - copy the music from the cd to your computer )

3. Here's the step I was doing wrong. I was using the windows explorer to burn the mp3 disk, and getting the wrong format. You should use the windows media player. Under the "burn" tab select the options menu item. Set the playlist type to "M3U", not "WPL". Windows will default the playlist to "WPL" (windows play list), and your disk will not work in anything other than a windows player. If you set it to "M3U" the disk will work in all industry standard players, including the Harmon Kardon on your bike. (Trust Microsoft to change the industry standard!! Typical windows crap)

4. Also under the burn tab make sure you select "Data CD".

Burn the disk, when it's done it will automatically close it out, or finalize it. Then it will work in the HK. It's really nice, it shows the artist and song name on the display when the song starts. I really like it.