Hay will it play MP3 files burned to a CD, or is it a standard CD player? sorry if I
did not search, too lazy.

 

The 2002 Cooper does not. I believe the 2003 and 2004's come with a MP3 jack. I know I have looked at getting a CD/MPS player disc changer and it is supposed to work. Otherwise the the stock CD player plays the old fashioned CD's.

Sombody else will correct me if they changed it for later versions of the MINI's.

 

I have burned MP3's to a CD and have been able to play them in my '02 Cooper's stock stereo system.

 

yo guys, moving this to Audio, where it will feel at home

 

Thanks for moving this, forgot this form was here... my bad...

my 04/03 build plays Mp3. I burned an mp3 to a cd and it worked fine... this
just keeps getting better and better...

thanks everyone for the help.

 

Quick question. Did you burn it as an actual mp3 file?

Cause I tried this, and my stereo did not recognize the cd.

Did you use folders or just put everything directly onto the disc?

 

I didn't know it could play MP3s stock... I'll have to give that a try...

 

I suspect that the people who say they've had success playing mp3 discs are really playing audio discs that were sourced from mp3 files. Big difference.

 

>>I suspect that the people who say they've had success playing mp3 discs are really playing audio discs that were sourced from mp3 files. Big difference.
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That would be my assumption. Can somebody clarify?

 

>>>>I suspect that the people who say they've had success playing mp3 discs are really playing audio discs that were sourced from mp3 files. Big difference.
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>>That would be my assumption. Can somebody clarify?

The current stock CD players and changers will only play 'audio' CDs. Meaning, they are not true mp3 capable. You can create an audio CD with mp3 files as the source, but they have to be converted to CDA format in the burn process. The players seem to be able to play 'burned' discs of CD-R and CD-RW types, but these have to be audio (Redbook) formatted, not a data CD of .mp3 files.

 

>>The current stock CD players and changers will only play 'audio' CDs. Meaning, they are not true mp3 capable. You can create an audio CD with mp3 files as the source, but they have to be converted to CDA format in the burn process. The players seem to be able to play 'burned' discs of CD-R and CD-RW types, but these have to be audio (Redbook) formatted, not a data CD of .mp3 files.
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Does anyone make a CD changer that will play true MP3 files and that can be controlled by the stock in-dash player? Not converted .wav files but true MP3?

Thank you.

-early

 

The Alpine CHA-S634 for one is a 6-disk mp3 changer. You need the Blitzsafe ALP DMX1 adaptor and the Alpine KCA-130B adaptor to hook it all up. The steering wheel controls will work, but you don't see the ID3 tags on the headunit display, just a disk-track number set.

From my post in this thread a while back, I think the info is still current.

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yah, i installed the alpine 634 last week. it works great. there is a slight delay from the steering controls to the changer though.

make sure you set the 634's mode to receive MiniBus. it comes pre-set at
AiNet mode, just switch that over to "2" or MiniBus before you plug it into the
blitzsafe using the 130B harness :smile: