DEV0LUTI0N

I'm just glad that Mitsu is getting their @ss out of financial ruin anyway that they can. No Mitsu=No Evo. Plus I alway liked the look of the base model Lancer 2002-2003 (?) before they re-imagined it and changed the body styling. Seems like a really solid little car for the price...I've always wanted to drive one (just to see how it compares to the "VO")

Karass

I suggest your drive one. Its not your usual middle-budget car Its more than this.

BLKRalliArt04

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Sorry to keep going back to mp3 playback, but all of the songs on the cd's i burn are mp3's and it always plays them. I guess it doesnt work for anybody else?

BlackLab

*confused*... mine plays mp3's too and I have the base stereo as well. Mine's a 2005 if that makes any difference?

DiamondWhite

how many tracks are on the cd?

My guess is your burning them to CD format. Mp3 discs Hold 700 megs of music as opposed to the 80 minute rule by audio cds.

Mp3 Cd players read the Mp3 format as if it where cd format but you can fit so much more music on a disc.

You can burn Mp3's to CD format, or Mp3 format. My guess is your doing the first one.

If theres less than say, 25 or less thats what your doing, if you can fit folders and like 100+ songs, then you have actual Mp3 Playback.

bigdoggy_dog

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I understand that but the power button works exactly the same as a pause button. It's not like the thing has to take like 30 seconds to power up when you turn it back on.

CF-Ninja

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I believe what they are talking about is MP3 CD's... not audio cd's. An MP3 cd is a data cd that has like 100+ tracks on it.

no1v2

Correct. BLKRalliArt04, when we say "MP3 CD," we mean a CD-R burned with actual MP3 files on it, so you can fit hundreds of tracks on a single disc. I'm pretty sure what you're talking about is just an audio CD-R whose tracks happen to have come from MP3s. MP3 CDs are not audio CDs, they're actually data CDs filled with MP3 files.

loctfrank

off topic?? what guys are you talking about...?

LeftysRule22

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Regular Audio CD- WAV format (~35 mb per song)
MP3 CD- MP3 Format- (~4MB per song)

Its all out of about 700mb the acual CD can hold- you do the math

Now what is really great is having a deck that can read DVD's bc the DVD disk have almost 5 GB of storage --mucho mas musica!!!!



Great Review btw

DiamondWhite

not to hijack but what beats that is Eclipse has a H/U that has a 20 gig internal hardrive... which is swappable... so you can throw say, 400 gigger in there and it records every new song as it plays and puts it in folders by band names... now if only other companies where trying this hard.

no1v2

A few other brands make those as well. My main issue with them is how do you quickly & easily transfer that much data to'em? IIRC they use wifi, and you do NOT want to transfer 20+ gigs over wifi Or do you hook'em up to your laptop?


It almost certainly uses laptop drives, and the largest laptop drives out right now are 100 gigs. Of course 100 gigs of MP3s is nothing to sneeze at, but don't get too excited about 400 gigs of them just yet

Again, the problem becomes pricing. If Eclipse's in-dash HD MP3 player is priced similar to Alpine's (which IIRC was almost a grand), then it'd be cheaper and more convenient to go with a good iPod setup.

1ChikDrivesStik

Its good to know someone else has this problem!?!

otter

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There are entire threads about this, and how people get around it.

sobe

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I usually try not to touch any metal when I get out. Even when i close the door, I use the plastic handles, hahah.