Comments (4)

• happylee

  Any particular reason the CD's have to be MP3? I can't even find a resource to tell me whether my late model auto or brand new sony dvd/cd player or 1 yr old dell laptop can play MP3, so why should I spend the money?
  

  Published: September 11, 2007 11:59 AM

• jeffrey

  Most players these days can. There are often 12 hours of lectures on these, and costs of plain CDs would be way too much. In any case, this is the format most customers demand because they are so lightweight and data dense.

  Published: September 11, 2007 12:32 PM

• Joseph Huang

  Yes, MP3 gives much better compression than the standard CD format. Your dell laptop can definitely play MP3, but look for MP3 anywhere on the other devices. If all else fails, you can look up manuals for the devices online.

  One interesting alternative is Speex, which is specifically designed for speech compression. Unfortunately, there is hardly any hardware support for it, so you would need to listen on your computer with software support installed.

  Published: September 11, 2007 5:49 PM

• C. Castle

  happylee, if all else fails, you could always rip the MP3 CD using iTunes (or your preferred encoder) and then burn the data to a set of standard audio CDs. Blank CDs are going for a few nickels a piece these days. If your 1-year-old Dell cannot do this, you've got bigger problems than $15 CDs.

  Published: September 12, 2007 1:01 AM