Monday 25 August 2008

Battle of the formats

I finally got round to having a cool radio/CD/MP3 player installed in the car (£90 including fitting at Halfords, very efficient) and slapped in a CD with 200 MP3 tracks on it. Hurray! Only some of them didn't play. Boo!

Why? Because a recent update to iTunes has reset the default in Preferences/Importing from 'MP3' to 'AAC', which won't work on a player set up to play MP3's on a CD. So what you have to do is go back into iTunes/Preferences/Importing and reset it from 'AAC encoder' to 'MP3 encoder'. And then delete all the AAC ones from iTunes and stick all your recent CD purchases in again and redo them as MP3, *sigh*.

That's that fixed, next.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

The great thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from!

Simon Fawthrop said...

It would have been a lot simpler to get an iTrip.