PACKARD BELL 0P3CD (currys)..v..Bench mp3 (lidl) help please
 

"Keith G" wrote in message ...
"michael hunter" wrote in message
om...
hi recently bought the Bench unit(£33.33)....not sure if Lidl is
widespread over england...certainly loads in N.E england and
Scotland....It is a good player...a good read out of Artist and
track....but it fails to play any cd that has got any mp3's on the
root of the cd.....When i first started to compile mp3 cd's I for some
strange reason put a handfull of tracks on the root of the cd...then
others in thier directory...but this unit wont play these ones....i
have 50 cds with over 150 mp3s on them that it wont play.....what i
need to know is will the PACKARD BELL 0P3CD (which is £40 from curry's
superstores)play these cd's for me...I have rung Curry's but they know
little....and wont allow me to try b4 i buy, and say if the unit is
used i will not beable to get money back....

Thanks Michael

PACKARD BELL 0P3CD (currys)..v..Bench mp3 (lidl) help please



OK, the eBench KH 6777 I acquired yesterday most certainly *does* play MP3s
from the root (doing it right this moment). Won't look at a DVD+RW with Mp3s
on it though! In fact, I'm trying to disregard a certain amount of
'honeymoon euphoria' with this machine - atm it's appearing to be the best
spinner I've heard since Nick Gorham's NuVista (the only CDP that I've heard
to date with any real 'tone' or 'weight')!

Unless.......

.......Unless Rob, that DVD (with the Johnny Cash and Norah Jones rips on
it) is from the vinyl????? - As I type, Johnny Cash (RIP) is creasing my
tits like a good 'un with a longtime favourite of mine, which I normally
listen to performed by the inimitable Nana Moussaka - 'The First Time Ever I
Saw Your Face'.....

Anyhoo, don't know about the Packard Bell, but I've been advised to steer
you toward the Apex 1100 (£30 at Currys) which will *definitely* (??) play
MP3s from the root.

For more info, see:

http://thedvdforums.com/

http://thedvdforums.com/forums/showt...ghlight=currys

http://www.avforums.com/


(Now, how's that for a rabid 'vinylista'.....??)

;-)


Ok thanks for the message back....it must be the way that i burned the
cd's then....i remember using easy cd creator....and it has has a drag
and drop facility(ie: use the cd copier as a hard drive type of
thing(I know there is a proper name for this...but cannot think of
it)....i might just have to re burn the cd's and see if they will
play.....ooohhh and what happens on some of them is that, the cd
player reads the directories, then when it goes to play the first
track it stops and says NO DISK...maybe I have got a faulty one...then
again i remember using the above technic on the first 50 disks...aaah
well it will only cost me £10 to get 50 disks and re burn them...happy
times...it is the best mp3 player i have seen....great read
out....will get a replacement, but if it does the same...will just put
up with it....
Thanks

PACKARD BELL 0P3CD (currys)..v..Bench mp3 (lidl) help please
 

On Wed, 17 Dec 2003 02:01:44 -0800, michael hunter wrote:
"michael hunter" wrote in message
om...
hi recently bought the Bench unit(£33.33)....not sure if Lidl is
widespread over england...certainly loads in N.E england and
Scotland....It is a good player...a good read out of Artist and
track....but it fails to play any cd that has got any mp3's on the
root of the cd

[snip]

Thanks Michael

[snip]

Ok thanks for the message back....it must be the way that i burned the
cd's then....i remember using easy cd creator....and it has has a drag
and drop facility(ie: use the cd copier as a hard drive type of
thing(I know there is a proper name for this...but cannot think of
it)....i might just have to re burn the cd's and see if they will
play

I've just bought a Bench KH 2259 MP3-CD Player from Lidl for the same
price - presumably you have a 2257/2258/2259/2260 too?

If so, I can verify that it will play MP3s in the root directory and seems
to handle multi-session as well (though I haven't tested that properly,
yet, so it may well miss some of the additional sessions).

I don't use Windows software to burn CDs, but if you're using drag and
drop-style burning, you may find that the CDs are burnt with a UDF
filesystem rather than the (older, more commonly supported) ISO9660 format
that these players support.

I've tested with various makes of blanks - Verbatim, Imation, Philips and
Kodak - all work.

As an aside, I'm pretty impressed with this gadget - it reads ID3 tags
(referred to as "ID3 days" in the translated-from-deutsche manual!) and
plays VBR-encoded MP3s. Considering it also comes with 2 rechargable NiMH
cells, a charger, a car kit, a case and a remote, I think that's pretty
damn good VFM.

Thanks

HTH,
Alex.
--
Alex Butcher Brainbench MVP for Internet Security: www.brainbench.com
Bristol, UK Need reliable and secure network systems?
PGP/GnuPG ID:0x271fd950 http://www.assursys.com/

PACKARD BELL 0P3CD (currys)..v..Bench mp3 (lidl) help please
 

On Wed, 17 Dec 2003 02:01:44 -0800, michael hunter wrote:
"michael hunter" wrote in message
om...
hi recently bought the Bench unit(£33.33)....not sure if Lidl is
widespread over england...certainly loads in N.E england and
Scotland....It is a good player...a good read out of Artist and
track....but it fails to play any cd that has got any mp3's on the
root of the cd

[snip]

Thanks Michael

[snip]

Ok thanks for the message back....it must be the way that i burned the
cd's then....i remember using easy cd creator....and it has has a drag
and drop facility(ie: use the cd copier as a hard drive type of
thing(I know there is a proper name for this...but cannot think of
it)....i might just have to re burn the cd's and see if they will
play

I've just bought a Bench KH 2259 MP3-CD Player from Lidl for the same
price - presumably you have a 2257/2258/2259/2260 too?

If so, I can verify that it will play MP3s in the root directory and seems
to handle multi-session as well (though I haven't tested that properly,
yet, so it may well miss some of the additional sessions).

I don't use Windows software to burn CDs, but if you're using drag and
drop-style burning, you may find that the CDs are burnt with a UDF
filesystem rather than the (older, more commonly supported) ISO9660 format
that these players support.

I've tested with various makes of blanks - Verbatim, Imation, Philips and
Kodak - all work.

As an aside, I'm pretty impressed with this gadget - it reads ID3 tags
(referred to as "ID3 days" in the translated-from-deutsche manual!) and
plays VBR-encoded MP3s. Considering it also comes with 2 rechargable NiMH
cells, a charger, a car kit, a case and a remote, I think that's pretty
damn good VFM.

Thanks

HTH,
Alex.
--
Alex Butcher Brainbench MVP for Internet Security: www.brainbench.com
Bristol, UK Need reliable and secure network systems?
PGP/GnuPG ID:0x271fd950 http://www.assursys.com/

PACKARD BELL 0P3CD (currys)..v..Bench mp3 (lidl) help please
 

Alex Butcher wrote in message k...
On Wed, 17 Dec 2003 02:01:44 -0800, michael hunter wrote:
"michael hunter" wrote in message
om...
hi recently bought the Bench unit(£33.33)....not sure if Lidl is
widespread over england...certainly loads in N.E england and
Scotland....It is a good player...a good read out of Artist and
track....but it fails to play any cd that has got any mp3's on the
root of the cd

[snip]

Thanks Michael

[snip]

Ok thanks for the message back....it must be the way that i burned the
cd's then....i remember using easy cd creator....and it has has a drag
and drop facility(ie: use the cd copier as a hard drive type of
thing(I know there is a proper name for this...but cannot think of
it)....i might just have to re burn the cd's and see if they will
play

I've just bought a Bench KH 2259 MP3-CD Player from Lidl for the same
price - presumably you have a 2257/2258/2259/2260 too?

If so, I can verify that it will play MP3s in the root directory and seems
to handle multi-session as well (though I haven't tested that properly,
yet, so it may well miss some of the additional sessions).

I don't use Windows software to burn CDs, but if you're using drag and
drop-style burning, you may find that the CDs are burnt with a UDF
filesystem rather than the (older, more commonly supported) ISO9660 format
that these players support.

I've tested with various makes of blanks - Verbatim, Imation, Philips and
Kodak - all work.

As an aside, I'm pretty impressed with this gadget - it reads ID3 tags
(referred to as "ID3 days" in the translated-from-deutsche manual!) and
plays VBR-encoded MP3s. Considering it also comes with 2 rechargable NiMH
cells, a charger, a car kit, a case and a remote, I think that's pretty
damn good VFM.

Thanks

HTH,
Alex.

Yep that is it.....I don't use Windows software to burn CDs, but if
you're using drag and
drop-style burning, you may find that the CDs are burnt with a UDF
filesystem rather than the (older, more commonly supported) ISO9660
format
that these players support.....I reburned one of the disk and it works
great.....49 more to go.. ha ha.....
Michael

PACKARD BELL 0P3CD (currys)..v..Bench mp3 (lidl) help please
 

Alex Butcher wrote in message k...
On Wed, 17 Dec 2003 02:01:44 -0800, michael hunter wrote:
"michael hunter" wrote in message
om...
hi recently bought the Bench unit(£33.33)....not sure if Lidl is
widespread over england...certainly loads in N.E england and
Scotland....It is a good player...a good read out of Artist and
track....but it fails to play any cd that has got any mp3's on the
root of the cd

[snip]

Thanks Michael

[snip]

Ok thanks for the message back....it must be the way that i burned the
cd's then....i remember using easy cd creator....and it has has a drag
and drop facility(ie: use the cd copier as a hard drive type of
thing(I know there is a proper name for this...but cannot think of
it)....i might just have to re burn the cd's and see if they will
play

I've just bought a Bench KH 2259 MP3-CD Player from Lidl for the same
price - presumably you have a 2257/2258/2259/2260 too?

If so, I can verify that it will play MP3s in the root directory and seems
to handle multi-session as well (though I haven't tested that properly,
yet, so it may well miss some of the additional sessions).

I don't use Windows software to burn CDs, but if you're using drag and
drop-style burning, you may find that the CDs are burnt with a UDF
filesystem rather than the (older, more commonly supported) ISO9660 format
that these players support.

I've tested with various makes of blanks - Verbatim, Imation, Philips and
Kodak - all work.

As an aside, I'm pretty impressed with this gadget - it reads ID3 tags
(referred to as "ID3 days" in the translated-from-deutsche manual!) and
plays VBR-encoded MP3s. Considering it also comes with 2 rechargable NiMH
cells, a charger, a car kit, a case and a remote, I think that's pretty
damn good VFM.

Thanks

HTH,
Alex.

Yep that is it.....I don't use Windows software to burn CDs, but if
you're using drag and
drop-style burning, you may find that the CDs are burnt with a UDF
filesystem rather than the (older, more commonly supported) ISO9660
format
that these players support.....I reburned one of the disk and it works
great.....49 more to go.. ha ha.....
Michael

PACKARD BELL 0P3CD (currys)..v..Bench mp3 (lidl) help please
 

On Thu, 18 Dec 2003 20:20:14 +0000, Alex Butcher wrote:

As an aside, I'm pretty impressed with this gadget - it reads ID3 tags
(referred to as "ID3 days" in the translated-from-deutsche manual!) and
plays VBR-encoded MP3s. Considering it also comes with 2 rechargable
NiMH cells, a charger, a car kit, a case and a remote, I think that's
pretty damn good VFM.

To follow up, after a few days usage; maximum bitrate is limited to
256Kbps (tell your encoder that if you're using VBR!) and maximum filename
length is 64 characters (including the .mp3 extension) - files with longer
names are ignored. As a result, I reckon the best way to name and organize
your MP3 CDs is:

artist/year-album/00-TracknameTruncatedTo64Chars.mp3

Incidentally, the 64 character filename limit appears to be common to
other devices too (e.g. the Alco-manufactured DVD players sold branded as
Goodmans, Venturer and others in the UK).

The 30GBP Proline model is the same thing, but I don't think it comes with
all the extras or the 3 year warranty. I'm pretty sure the Goodmans player
in Argos is the same too.

Best Regards,
Alex.
--
Alex Butcher Brainbench MVP for Internet Security: www.brainbench.com
Bristol, UK Need reliable and secure network systems?
PGP/GnuPG ID:0x271fd950 http://www.assursys.com/

PACKARD BELL 0P3CD (currys)..v..Bench mp3 (lidl) help please
 

On Thu, 18 Dec 2003 20:20:14 +0000, Alex Butcher wrote:

As an aside, I'm pretty impressed with this gadget - it reads ID3 tags
(referred to as "ID3 days" in the translated-from-deutsche manual!) and
plays VBR-encoded MP3s. Considering it also comes with 2 rechargable
NiMH cells, a charger, a car kit, a case and a remote, I think that's
pretty damn good VFM.

To follow up, after a few days usage; maximum bitrate is limited to
256Kbps (tell your encoder that if you're using VBR!) and maximum filename
length is 64 characters (including the .mp3 extension) - files with longer
names are ignored. As a result, I reckon the best way to name and organize
your MP3 CDs is:

artist/year-album/00-TracknameTruncatedTo64Chars.mp3

Incidentally, the 64 character filename limit appears to be common to
other devices too (e.g. the Alco-manufactured DVD players sold branded as
Goodmans, Venturer and others in the UK).

The 30GBP Proline model is the same thing, but I don't think it comes with
all the extras or the 3 year warranty. I'm pretty sure the Goodmans player
in Argos is the same too.

Best Regards,
Alex.
--
Alex Butcher Brainbench MVP for Internet Security: www.brainbench.com
Bristol, UK Need reliable and secure network systems?
PGP/GnuPG ID:0x271fd950 http://www.assursys.com/