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Originally Posted by theducks
Only really modern cars that have CD players, will play MP3 CD's  (My 2001 Nissan Sentra CD will not. My 1994 Ford F350 LST only plays Cassette tapes  Neither has an external Audio input.) |
depends how you define "really modern" - I quit driving 10 years ago but CD players in car were pretty standard back then ( in the UK). anyway the point was just that the burn to CD trick defeats most audio protection scheme. you could burn in audio cd format, no need for mp3.
off topic.....
cassette tape DRM never really worked out! - there was some tech overlay designed to mess up tape to tape copies ( VHS has that also ) but most commercial tapes were such god-awful quality it was smarter to buy the vinyl, tape it yourself, but the master vinyl away somewhere safe.... then if the tape ripped you just made a new one.
you did of course have the hassle of some albums being 47 mins long & you only had a 45 minute per side C90 tape....
I remember when computer games also came on tape ( 6 mins to load a game) and you'd mess about with tape to tape copies so as to not risk the expensive original bought copy in your cheapo tape player - with sinclair ZX computers, the cheapest mono only tape players were the most reliable for game loading... £13 for a game when £13 would buy 2 full tanks of petrol...
the world moves on but the beat-the-DRM game is ever-popular....
back to the thread
Audible uses apple DRM I think.. I tried to find a free sample to audition on my Kindle but gave up looking - there's meant to be a speed control option with audible recordings on Kindle.
I never could get the hang of "listening" to a book. a made-for-radio play is maybe OK but a book being read by someone, even by the author just puts me to sleep! - better for you than pills, I guess :-)