Can CD player play CDs with MP3s on them?

[m026090]

I recently bought a 2005 X5 with the Nav system and six disc CD changer installed. Can the factory CD player play CDs with MP3s burned on it?

Thank you.

 

[Stitch]

Yes, I use easy CD creator. Select make an music CD project. Pick all the MP3s that you want and "click" record.

 

[Stitch]

Nero Express works, too. Select "Music" then "create Audio CD".

 

[Rob V]

I just want to make sure that m026090's question was not misunderstood. Easy CD Creator and Nero do make music CD's (of course) but I believe the question was if the player would read CD's with MP3 files on them. Not MP3's that have been converted to a music CD. A music CD can hold about 15-20 songs depending on length right? You can store much more music than that if you just burn the MP3 files on the CD. You figure an average of 3-4MB per song on decent quality (not the best), that gives you about 200 files per 700MB CD. That's easily more than 10 complete albums on 1 CD.

From what I understand the Cd player does read MP3 and WMA files (WMA has smaller file sizes) but doesn't display Artist/Song Title information. I have used Nero or Easy CD Creator so you may be saying the same thing. I just wanted to point it out just in case it wasn't completely clear.

 

[Stitch]

Yes, you are right-Rob V. After processing by the computer, the MP3s can still be played in the factory CD player.

I totally agree with you on the memory storage capacity of a CD. That's why my older car is full of scratched CDs flying around and the new X3 has the 20Gb iPod hooked up with the iPod interface adaptor.

 

[Rob V]

Well m026090, ...I recently found out that if your X3 has the 6-Disc changer it will NOT play MP3's regardless of the model year. Too bad! Sorry about the mis-information.