What solution did you go for?

I can't see the original POST, so I'll just tack my piece on the end here.

I found that you could play MP3's off DVD's with my SONY DVD player (I
think most SONY's can do this). The drawback was that there was a tiny
limit (something like 200) of tracks per physical volume, which made it
almost pointless to use DVDs.

I was very happy with 160Kbps MP3's played from CD's in my 400 disc SONY
CDP-X455, apart from a short (1-2 second) period of very quiet buzzing
added to the end, and sometimes the beginning of each MP3. It wasn't
there all the time, as some of my MP3s include periods of silence, and
the buzzing wasn't there.

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Steve Swift
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