JBL- NAV (STOCK) CD Song Quantity Question?

[MeBe4running]

Does anyone here happen to know the limit (quantity) of songs that the stock JBL w/NAV will read on a CD? Is there a limit; another words if I burn a CD with 100 songs, would it read them all? I'm not being lazy, just don't want to waste a load of CD's to find out and couldn't find an answer searching. Thank you

 

[Americas High Five]

No smart phone/MP3 player? Is there something wrong with your bluetooth, USB or aux jack? :behindsofa:

 

[MeBe4running]

No smart phone/MP3 player? Is there something wrong with your bluetooth, USB or aux jack? :behindsofa:

Yes to all. Sometimes having a good CD that you just hit a button and bam it plays, no syncing, worrying about charging/battery power, cables etc.. The USB is horrible. It has never worked in a logic I relate too, maybe Im doing it wrong but a limit on how many folders you can change whilst driving to the genral flow and user interface is habby shabby at best.

The audio quality is BEST with a CD (my experience). I know you can only have loaded, x4 CD's at one time but they are there on demand.

So this leads to my question, if I can store 100 songs on a CD that the JBL w/nav player will read I will then have 400 songs to play on demand with a click of a button and no faffing around with syncing, charging, wires etc... may sound silly but there is a method to my madness here SO DOES ANYBODY HAVE ANY EXPERIENCE HERE or HAPPEN TO KNOW? Thank you for your suggestions!

 

[4RunnerStunner]

Yes to all. Sometimes having a good CD that you just hit a button and bam it plays, no syncing, worrying about charging/battery power, cables etc.. The USB is horrible. It has never worked in a logic I relate too, maybe Im doing it wrong but a limit on how many folders you can change whilst driving to the genral flow and user interface is habby shabby at best.

The audio quality is BEST with a CD (my experience). I know you can only have loaded, x4 CD's at one time but they are there on demand.

So this leads to my question, if I can store 100 songs on a CD that the JBL w/nav player will read I will then have 400 songs to play on demand with a click of a button and no faffing around with syncing, charging, wires etc... may sound silly but there is a method to my madness here SO DOES ANYBODY HAVE ANY EXPERIENCE HERE or HAPPEN TO KNOW? Thank you for your suggestions!

From my experience, a CD player that is designed to read MP3 files, any type of format, will play as many as a CD will hold. I have done this before, but it is a waste of time for me. I have my iPod Touch set up in my car to sync with my iTunes account over Wi-Fi. So when I here music I like, I go on my account, download it from iTunes, jump in my rig, and off I go. If I want a certain playlist to play of like 100 songs, I put them in a named playlist and off I go. No burning, carrying disc, or switching discs to get to a particular song. All in one location. It is only difficult if you make it out to be. Also, if you are making a CD out of MP3 files our what not, there is no difference in sound quality as it all depends on the quality of the file burning. All original CDs are WAV. files burned to a disc. The quality of that file will determine the quality of sound you here, less the player your using and your setup in general.

 

[Hawaiian4runner]

From my experience, a CD player that is designed to read MP3 files, any type of format, will play as many as a CD will hold. I have done this before, but it is a waste of time for me. I have my iPod Touch set up in my car to sync with my iTunes account over Wi-Fi. So when I here music I like, I go on my account, download it from iTunes, jump in my rig, and off I go. If I want a certain playlist to play of like 100 songs, I put them in a named playlist and off I go. No burning, carrying disc, or switching discs to get to a particular song. All in one location. It is only difficult if you make it out to be. Also, if you are making a CD out of MP3 files our what not, there is no difference in sound quality as it all depends on the quality of the file burning. All original CDs are WAV. files burned to a disc. The quality of that file will determine the quality of sound you here, less the player your using and your setup in general.

Don't agree entirely. You assume OP is burning CDs from iTune MP3s. Maybe he's burning from original CDs or HD digital tracks. Even if he is burning iTunes MPs, I think the burned CD still sounds better. iPod via USB, aux input and bluetooth all sound inferior to the CD player in my opinion. Most people just don't care but if you do, it's very noticeable.

 

[4RunnerStunner]

Don't agree entirely. You assume OP is burning CDs from iTune MP3s. Maybe he's burning from original CDs or HD digital tracks. Even if he is burning iTunes MPs, I think the burned CD still sounds better. iPod via USB, aux input and bluetooth all sound inferior to the CD player in my opinion. Most people just don't care but if you do, it's very noticeable.

I did not assume he was burning from iTunes, you assumed I was stating he was. I mentioned iTunes as for what I use. On top of that, iTunes does not use MP3 format. I separated the two in my response. If he was burning an orginal CD, an original CD does not hold 100 songs if they are high quality. They only hold 700MB of data. WAV is lossless format which means the quality is as good as it gets. The average 4 minute track in .wav is about 30-40mb. Yes, a CD sounds better if it is in WAV. file format, but if he is talking 100 songs on a CD, that is not happening. When converted to MP3 @ 128kbps, it will be about 3-4MB with significant quality loss, @ 256 kbps the song will take up roughly 6-7MB and at 320kbps it'd be about 9MB in size.

 

[nad]

Burning an mp3 cd will be no better quality than a flash drive with music on it/ipod/mp3 player through aux. Best bet in my opinion is put all the songs in one folder on a flash drive and use the usb.

 

[NoDak]

Burning an mp3 cd will be no better quality than a flash drive with music on it/ipod/mp3 player through aux. Best bet in my opinion is put all the songs in one folder on a flash drive and use the usb.

just make sure you follow the rules for files inside a folder :

FAT aka FAT16 = 512 (**128)
FAT32 = 65,534
NTFS = 4,294,967,295

since the usb stick formatted NTFS wont work, just be mindful of the other 2 restrictions.


** if you put the files in the root of the drive, your limted to this number

 

[Jeremy556]

just make sure you follow the rules for files inside a folder :

FAT aka FAT16 = 512 (**128)
FAT32 = 65,534
NTFS = 4,294,967,295

since the usb stick formatted NTFS wont work, just be mindful of the other 2 restrictions.


** if you put the files in the root of the drive, your limted to this number

Anyone know the maximum size flash drive it recognizes? It doesn't see my 8 and 16GB ones, even when formatted FAT32.