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It has to. Even the very first CD/MP3 car stereos on the market played CD-R, even if it wasn't officially listed in the specs.falcondrgn wrote:Hello Everyone.
Does anyone know if the stock single cd player in the 2005 plays mp3's burned onto a cd-r? Thank you so much in advance.
There are two ways you can burn a cd with mp3's on it. You can burn it as a AUDIO cd (the cd's you buy from artists are audio cd's) with mp3 songs on it. If you do this you'll only be able to fit 14 or so songs on it depending on the length of the songs. Audio cd's can usually be played by almost any player made within the last decade or so. The second way is to burn the mp3's as a DATA cd. If you make a data cd it compresses the files and you can fit about 120 songs (depending again on the length of the songs) on it. Their are still a lot of cars that are unable to play data cd's. I'm not 100% sure but I know my 2005 nissan xterra can't play data cd's on it's stock system so I'd guess that the 2005 pathfinder can't do it either.falcondrgn wrote:Hello Everyone.
Does anyone know if the stock single cd player in the 2005 plays mp3's burned onto a cd-r? Thank you so much in advance.
You are sort of correct. The first method you mention the music files of your choice are actually being converted and are no longer MP3's at all and are more closely related to WAV's. And the second method the files are not being compressed as MP3's are already a compressed file format. But they are burnt as data files.Wukillabeez78 wrote:There are two ways you can burn a cd with mp3's on it.
If a car CD deck is MP3, then it obviously can play data CD's. If the deck only plays audio CD's, there is no way to burn and play a disc other than it being standard flavor audio CD, and many standard non-MP3 decks are real crabby when it comes to CDR's & CDRW's.Wukillabeez78 wrote: Their are still a lot of cars that are unable to play data cd's. I'm not 100% sure but I know my 2005 nissan xterra can't play data cd's on it's stock system so I'd guess that the 2005 pathfinder can't do it either.
I haven't found any FM modulators that will even work with the Pathfinder. We have one or two unused frequencies in Northern NJ shared with every satellite radio and iPod user on the road. Finding an FM modulator powerful enough to reliably reach the rear-window antennas and override all the other modulators nearby has proven impossible.Fofiddy wrote:Also FWIW fm modulated mp3 adapters really rob you of sound quality if you were considering it as an option.
I don't believe so. If the 05 has the OEM 6 disk stacker w/subwoofers... then it would play MP3 files. With regards to Canadian models, this would be called Premium Package.falcondrgn wrote:Hello Everyone.
Does anyone know if the stock single cd player in the 2005 plays mp3's burned onto a cd-r? Thank you so much in advance.