Quoting message from Herman Trivilino to Roy J. Tellason
on 27 Mar 04  15:38:49.
HT>  RJT> Herman Trivilino wrote in a message to August Abolins:
HT>  HT>> If that's the case then they will play on any MP3
HT>  HT>> player.  Looking around at the different players in my
HT>  HT>> house, I can play MP3 files on my DVD player, the CD
HT>  HT>> player in my car, and on my wife's portable CD
HT>  HT>> player/radio.  MP3's will not play on the CD player in
HT>  HT>> my entertainment center, nor will they play on my old
HT>  HT>> DVD player.
HT> 
HT>  RJT> Does this depend on the filesystem used to create the
HT>  RJT> disc in the first place?

It doesn't really matter what file system the source files come from, the file
system used for CDs is neither of the above.  Think back to the early days of 
CD drives, you had to install software just to read the CDs.  SO it would seem
to follow that. regardless if the source file system is DOS 6.0, Win9x (AKA 
FAT16/FAT32/NTFS/Ext2FS/Ext3FS/or OS/2/s proprietary file system (I forget 
waht it was called, as I've never really _used_ OS/2), the file systemused to 
create CDS work the same.  I believe it's ISO...something.  


  Consider this...You could create a CD in Windoze and 'see' it on a MAC, an
older system that runs pure DOS, Linux, Windows NT,. etc.   This says to me 
that it's not the file system that's in question, It's how it's 
created (although is _is_ possible to create a CD that can only be accessed
under Windows XP/NT)  I have a MiniDisk walkman, and in my personal 
experience, and MP3s that are created with a Bit Rate above 128 will
generally cause problems with some players.

  I've got a MiniDisk Walkman, and I find that any MP3 files I try to
transfer over will just 'playback' with no sound (I.E.  5 minutes of
silence), where I can still play the source file on my Linux box or in
Windoze just fine.

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