Question Playing my CD collection on my car's new audio system ?

[Ralston18]

Physics indeed.....

@worstalentscout

Start here:

https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/maxwells-electromagnetic-equations/

https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxwell's_equations

Use the formulas to support:

" The DeMagic signal actually relocates the magnets, and thereby breaks the magnetic field and its negative effect on the sound. In 1997 the University of Seoul, Korea, carried out scientific tests that definitely proved the theory behind the DeMagic signal."

However, to save time and effort, I therorize that the magic signal is easily simplified and made end user understandable:

Dah dit dit dit

dit dit dit

Dah dit dit dit

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dit dit dit

Dah dit dit dit

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dit dit dit

Dah dit dit dit

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dit dit dit

 

[Colif]

I just replaced my old car's CD player with a new one that has a USB port instead. I'm faced with the problem of moving my rather substantial CD collection to a form that the audio system can play.

My first thought was buy a cheap digital audio player and attach it to the USB input and use it to source all the music as you can put a 1.5tb USB flash drive into those. And gives access to streaming services as well. Many of them have car modes meaning they turn on/off when ignition to car does.

Better than phones as won't get calls on them, and allow more storage since you can use flash drives in them still. I probably won't run out of space for a while

Most are Android based now.

Still requires ripping all that music eventually as CD isn't likely to make a comeback in cars any time soon.

 

[JeffreyP55]

one at a time is the way it'll be no matter who does it. at one point or another most of us have had to go through the process and it's as fun as you expect it to be

keep in mind everything works off the mp3 tag. so be sure as you go it is as you want. correct song title, album title, genre and so on as this is what is read by the system. most ripping software will pull the info from the web as it goes but double check before clicking go on each disk. having to go back and edit hundreds/thousands of files is even less fun than ripping them in the first place.

does not matter what the file itself is named so don't be fooled by that. figure out how you want to organize it before you start as well. again moving thousands of songs around after the fact is a nightmare as well. decide if you want to go by genre, decade, artist name or whatever. re-evaluate after a bit in case you want to change up before you get too far into it.

think about how you'll want to listen to it and be sure you tag it accordingly. for instance if you want to be able to select all of one style be sure you can easily. tag it with the same genre so you can just select it all at once easily. often it'll tag the artist as "john featuring bob" "john featuring sam"" john featuring sarah, sam and bob" and so on for one album. this makes selecting a single artist to play as impossible as the system thinks every song is a new artist.

so tag it all as the artist, then put the "featuring _____" part elsewhere in the description if needed.

work carefully and meaningfully and it'll be easy to do. try to do it as fast as possible and you'll leave yourself with a nightmare to work with.

good luck

Using EZCD extractor which is one-stop, do-it-all software I convert a bunch of my CD's to best quality lossless .FLAC. Put them on storage drives and a few tunes on USB flash drives. Sound quality is excellent. https://www.poikosoft.com/

 

[worstalentscout]

Snake Oil by any other name. Next you'll be telling everybody that they need the same braided oxygen free copper speaker cables that have been foisted on home audiophiles for years at staggeringly high prices.

Now show us the actual data that backs up your claim, with actual published papers (title and author required)

just play the track couple times.................cost you NOTHING................then listen again.........

if you can't hear any difference................then you're not an audiophile..................i used to sell that single track on a CD for about USD20................some buyers listened before they bought the CDs...............others bought Densen amplifiers before so they know they make great stuff........

## and yes, cables make a difference...............in fact, the power cord is the one that makes the biggest difference............i had a German engineer at my workplace once that told me cables make ZERO difference - after he heard the difference between power cords (his brain short-circuited).......

 

[USAFRet]

just play the track couple times.................cost you NOTHING................then listen again.........

if you can't hear any difference................then you're not an audiophile..................i used to sell that single track on a CD for about USD20................some buyers listened before they bought the CDs...............others bought Densen amplifiers before so they know they make great stuff........

"just play..."

And zero actual explanation.

Got it.

 

[worstalentscout]

If you can, please give us the physics behind how this works.
Not their marketing junk...in your own words.

i don't really know...........just play the track couple times.................cost you NOTHING................then listen again.........

i wouldn't be using that track at my workplace and at home weekly if it made no difference..........it's no placebo effect

 

[USAFRet]

i used to sell that single track on a CD for about USD20

And some people bought "DVD rewinders"

 

[Lafong]

if you can't hear any difference................then you're not an audiophile..

Quite the zinger.....I'm kinda surprised you waited this long to unleash it.

Devastating.

 

[ex_bubblehead]

just play the track couple times.................cost you NOTHING................then listen again.........

if you can't hear any difference................then you're not an audiophile..................i used to sell that single track on a CD for about USD20................some buyers listened before they bought the CDs...............others bought Densen amplifiers before so they know they make great stuff........

## and yes, cables make a difference...............in fact, the power cord is the one that makes the biggest difference............i had a German engineer at my workplace once that told me cables make ZERO difference - after he heard the difference between power cords (his brain short-circuited).......

Like the troll I was expecting. All blow and no show. I'm still waiting for you to produce those published papers that back up your claims.

 

[ex_bubblehead]

"just play..."

And zero actual explanation.

Got it.

Typical audio "salesman" from the day 🙄

 

[USAFRet]

and yes, cables make a difference

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[jhsachs]

This thread has gone far afield from my original question. I'm commenting on a few things at random.

I'm not a "random selection" person or a "playlist" person. I'm an "insert CD, play it, choose another CD" person. I don't know whether I'll want to duplicate that practice in my new car with one folder per CD, or I'll end up doing something else.

Back in the day, Byte once published an ad for a piece of software that would turbocharge your modem. It promised to increase the speed of a 1200 baud modem to 10,000 or even 15,000 baud. So now we have a track that demagnetizes your digital sound system. Bullspit can be neither created nor destroyed, but only changed in form!

Regarding "There are only 2 types of naval vessels.......Submarines & Targets"... my father was in the navy during World War II, and was a radar officer on a target, the USS Wyoming, that sank a German submarine. But that is another story.