Mp4 And Mp3 - Help Please!

[moggie 939]

My new car has no CD player only a USB and HDMI port and I want to play my music
So...I downloaded a couple of my CD albums to my laptop and then tried to transfe them memory stick to play in car but they to not work -shows 'no files'

Looked at properties of the downloaded and and it shows the as MP4.
What am I doing wrong?

Thanks

Moggie

[ivor4781]

probably i'm wrong but were they converted to mp3 files

[bhg481]

If your CDs are conventional music CDs you need to "rip" them to get MP3 versions of them. These can then be copied to your memory stick and should play in the car.

[ivor4781]

http://www.dummies.com/computers/operating-systems/windows-10/how-to-rip-cds-in-windows-10/
orhttp://www.freerip.com/

[moggie 939]

Ivor
You might be correct as when I put this CD on my laptop some time ago I may have converted it. I will delete it and put t on again from original CD.
I will try ripping

[moggie 939]

Thanks both of you - it took a while with WMP but I got it to work.

As you said it offered me MP3 and I downloaded a few of my CDs which I listened to in my previous car and copied them to a memory stick and tried this in my new car and it works fine - so thank you both for your help.
Now....one other thing which is not important but someone might know the answer.
Some time ago I had my holiday videos transferred from a VHS tape onto a DVD and this DVD works in my DVD player but as not many people have these now I wanted to put the FVD onto a memory stick also.
I successfully downloaded the DVD to my laptop and it played ok on that. However when I tried to copy it to a memory stick it appeared as a vertical elongated picture with sound which kept breaking up and was not watchable!
Is this an impossible task or is there a way - perhaps using WMP again?
Thanks everyone
Moggie

[bhg481]

Part of the problem with the memory stick could be that the data read speed could be too low. Memory sticks come in all sorts of flavours, as do memory cards for cameras; usually the higher the price the faster the read & write speeds. This isn't usually important; if you're just copying data too and from it takes longer but if you're trying to play a video a fairly high read speed is required. (It's like trying to watch a video via the internet on a low-speed connection when the twirly circle keeps appearing when you need to wait for data). That might explain the breaking sound but not the elongated video.
I'm fascinated by the way you think no-one has DVD players nowadays; I do, for my own holidays etc. If you think it's because they have replaced them with BluRay players, then they will play DVDs as well.

[moggie 939]

Point taken!
I do have some very good quality memory sticks and I will try again and see what happens. Also have a USB 3.0 port on my laptop - will that make a difference?
Moggie

[bhg481]

I haven't tried running a video from anything other than a DVD or BluRay disc. I do look at video recorded on my camera (in HD format), which requires a high data rate and that is fine on USB 2.0. Incidentally, whilst USB 3.0 sockets are compatible with USB 2.0 devices they will only operate at USB 2.0 speeds unless the device is USB 3.0. In other words, unless your memory stick is USB 3.0 there is no advantage in plugging it into your USB 3.0 socket.

[moggie 939]

Very good point!
When I buy some next I will ensure they are 3.0 or more compatible