dello22 Posted March 20, 2008 Report Share Posted March 20, 2008 Hello, can you burn any other CD's besides store bought CD's to the hard drive? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
inferno999 Posted March 20, 2008 Report Share Posted March 20, 2008 Yes. You can, for example, burn an audio CD in iTunes and rip it to the Z2 -- I do it all the time. I don't know why it says that in the manual / product descriptions, but my guess is they were either trying to dodge the confusion of what an audio CD is (Vs. MP3 cd, which could be confused as a CD with audio on it), or they were trying to appease the RIAA. Doesn't matter really since you can do it Quote Link to post Share on other sites
dello22 Posted March 20, 2008 Author Report Share Posted March 20, 2008 Thanks for your help. The reason I asked is, my father has the Z2 installed in his 07 Suburban and he ripped burned CD's that he had made, and the unit took it, a month later the hard drive went out, do you think that it was the burned music, or did the unit just happen to take a crap. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
inferno999 Posted March 20, 2008 Report Share Posted March 20, 2008 been doing it for 2 years with no problems. definitely unrelated Quote Link to post Share on other sites
peste19 Posted April 7, 2008 Report Share Posted April 7, 2008 will it rip music from cdrws? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
jwq Posted April 7, 2008 Report Share Posted April 7, 2008 been doing it for 2 years with no problems. definitely unrelated And if you burn the CD with CD-TXT, you don't have to manualy enter titles etc. either... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
inferno999 Posted April 7, 2008 Report Share Posted April 7, 2008 been doing it for 2 years with no problems. definitely unrelated And if you burn the CD with CD-TXT, you don't have to manualy enter titles etc. either... Yup! Also, if you have a truly accurate rip, and re-burn to audio without cd-text, the Z2 will find the title in its CDDB database (assuming it's in there). Although, I've seen this fail. Best to just do CD-text if you've got it. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mikek Posted April 7, 2008 Report Share Posted April 7, 2008 In my experience it has been better not to use CD-text and let gracenote find the CD. Why? Because all the voice recognition titles will load automatically with gracenote. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
peste19 Posted April 8, 2008 Report Share Posted April 8, 2008 and how does it save it on the hard drive? does it save as a compressed music file like for example mp3 or does it copy as the way it was burned? i dont remember the file name which music is buned to cd Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Hyperite Posted April 8, 2008 Report Share Posted April 8, 2008 and how does it save it on the hard drive? does it save as a compressed music file like for example mp3 or does it copy as the way it was burned? i dont remember the file name which music is buned to cd audio cd -> atrac only, bro Quote Link to post Share on other sites
jwq Posted April 8, 2008 Report Share Posted April 8, 2008 In my experience it has been better not to use CD-text and let gracenote find the CD. Why? Because all the voice recognition titles will load automatically with gracenote. It would, except if I burn it on CD I usually make my own mix, so there's no way it can recognise the CD (as it doesn't exist in that form ) Also, even with a 1-to-1 copy, the gracenote database sometimes doesn't recognize the newer CD's. The online databases for automatically generating the cd-text info are usually more up to date.... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
highrev9k Posted May 22, 2008 Report Share Posted May 22, 2008 It would, except if I burn it on CD I usually make my own mix, so there's no way it can recognise the CD (as it doesn't exist in that form ) Also, even with a 1-to-1 copy, the gracenote database sometimes doesn't recognize the newer CD's. The online databases for automatically generating the cd-text info are usually more up to date.... i thought that too but i popped in a random mix cd the other day and it found and named most of the songs. or does it refer to cd text if gracenote can't find it? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
CaptainInsaneO Posted May 22, 2008 Report Share Posted May 22, 2008 will it rip music from cdrws? Yes it will. That's the only kind I use for this. No sense in wasting a CD that I'll never use again because the music is on the HDD. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
jwq Posted May 22, 2008 Report Share Posted May 22, 2008 It would, except if I burn it on CD I usually make my own mix, so there's no way it can recognise the CD (as it doesn't exist in that form ) Also, even with a 1-to-1 copy, the gracenote database sometimes doesn't recognize the newer CD's. The online databases for automatically generating the cd-text info are usually more up to date.... i thought that too but i popped in a random mix cd the other day and it found and named most of the songs. or does it refer to cd text if gracenote can't find it? Nope, only if cd-txt is actually on there... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
sir Posted May 22, 2008 Report Share Posted May 22, 2008 Yes. You can, for example, burn an audio CD in iTunes and rip it to the Z2 -- I do it all the time. I don't know why it says that in the manual / product descriptions, but my guess is they were either trying to dodge the confusion of what an audio CD is (Vs. MP3 cd, which could be confused as a CD with audio on it), or they were trying to appease the RIAA. Doesn't matter really since you can do it I'm an old school guy using mp3 music and I did not use itunes at all so would you mind to give me more details on how to go from mp3 to itunes, burn on CD(how about DVD?) and finaly upload to the hard drive? Thanks in advance. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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