if a player can read the artist and tracks (without an internet connection to figure it out), the CD has mp3 tracks. Mp3 is just a file type.
no the audio is not in MP3 format, there is just extra metadata containing album information.
long before MP3 players and their high compression, regular store bough CDs could and have had this data in them, however most music labels just do not add this information do to laziness and saving cost.
Also IMO CD Sound quality sound much better than mp3 any day.
get better quality MP3s. most MP3 you just randomly get off of the internet are very low bitrate to save space and maximize storage. kick that bit rate up (or use something better than crap freeware ripping software) and it will sound much better.
a good rip with a high bit rate is fairly hard for most people to tell the difference, especially in a car audio system being driven with all sorts of road noise. now maybe if you have a new Continental with the 19 speaker Revel audio system you would actually be able to tell a little easier.
In my opinion cds are still more reliable than any hard drive system including storage on cell phones.
now that is just crazy talk, you can have your phone loadd with music, and have it backed up on a computer, if you lose or break your phone, you still have all of your music in perfect condition and can load it on to a new phone (or any device)
I notice with my Google Play subscription that alot of my songs are starting to have blanks, skips, and pauses in songs just like a damaged cd would.
so if CDs do the same thing... then how are they any more reliable?
also once the CD is damaged, then it toast and you have to buy a new CD. chances are that if your having skips and misses, it is more likely due to the device being bogged down and not processing fast enough or that since your using google play music, it may be a buffering problem with the device. if by some weird chance the data in the song did get corrupted, then you can delete that version and reload it up back to new, cant do that with a CD.
Also the digital format don't sound as crisp or lively as the cds do. Since I just bought my LS I can attest to that. Obviously it doesn't have aux in or bluetooth capability so I have went back to cds for the time being and they sound really good. Made me miss my cds.
ummm, CDs are one of the first consumer DIGITAL forms of media, and due to it being a digital representation of a analog sound, you get flutter which (arguably) doesn't sound as lively as an analog source like vinyl. unfortunately like most things that are many decades old with little change, even they are falling behind and newer forms of high-resolution audio being encoded and playback with a much higher bitrate than even CDs (about 6x more information) so even more detail is preserved during the analog to digital conversion. CDs are the past, its even becoming harder and harder to go somewhere and buy them.
