MP3 Bit Rate Limits

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Apr 16, 2011 | 01:31 PM

Fishmac

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MP3 Bit Rate Limits

I bought my first touring bike this year, 2011 FLTRU. The HK "Advanced Audio" system on the bike seems to be giving me some grief. I burned my first "Data CD" with both WMA and MP3 files on it. Won't play the WMA. Got it. MP3 only.

Now I've (painstakingly) built a CD of ONLY MP3 but it's not playing some of those either. I buy a lot of music from services like Wal-Mart (clean) or Amazon (explicit lyrics), but they both and many others I shop use a very high bit rate for their MP3 files. This provides better quality, but I'm having an issue playing some of the music on my bike.

Is anyone aware of the specs on this system and if there are limits on the MP3 bit rate (maybe less than 256kbps)?

Apr 16, 2011 | 01:36 PM

davewear

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just recorded a new cd with 256 at minimum, mostly 320. no issues.

Apr 16, 2011 | 01:43 PM

Copyless

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That shouldn't have anything to do with it, but the speed at which you recorded the disc, would be the most likely culprit. The other thing would be the burner or the software. Have you used this burner a whole lot? Is in a desktop or a laptop? What parts of the disc don't read? I mean is the disc recognized, then plays for a while and gets to a point that it fails?

Last edited by Copyless; Apr 16, 2011 at 01:46 PM.