Maybe I was the only one asking about this a few months before the 8 came out as I was trying to decide between the mp3 player and the 6-disc changer.

I was wondering if the 6-disc CD changer would play mp3s that had been converted to .cda format (using Nero or whatever).

The answer is yes. Now you can't put as many .cda formatted songs on a single CD, but I have 6 slots, I get 70+ minutes per CD, and the quality is still great.

 

ive never heard of .cda....

anywho, is the sound better or worse than mp3, or the same
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I thought .cda format is the original format of audio tracks on commercial cd's. When you convert mp3's to .cda format you're just converting them back to their original format but in a lower quality. Of course it all depends on the bit rates of the mp3's

 

Typically anything over 128Kb sounds great (IMO). I rip some of my CDs at 192 and its even better. I tend to notice the same artifacts in the audio of a .cda encoded file as may be present in the .mp3 encoded files. And really, most of the artifacts in the audio I notice are .mp3s that I'm listening to through noise-cancelling headphones. Rarely does a .cda formatted track take away from any listening experience - unless it was a .cda that I converted over from a low-quality .mp3.

If it's an .mp3 I didn't encode myself, it may not have been ripped/encoded using CD quality or better encoding methods And you can transfer directly from an audio CD to .cda format, or you can convert an .mp3 to .cda format, so you can keep the sound as close to the original as you can.