What is the difference in a car cd player and mp3 player?

Question

Hi i have a built in cd player in my car, im looking at half price sale halfords a sony cd radio mp3 and us connectivity. What is the difference if i got this one would it sound better what does it do that a normal cd player does normally i am not into this new technoligy so any help would be greatfull please just genuine answers many thanks

Answer 1

I think it's the same as mine.  It's simply a CD player that can also read and play MP3s that have been burned onto a CD.

Answer 2

i think it would probably work better because the cd player only plays cds  

Answer 3

To put it simply, conventional CD players will only play normal audio CDs. An MP3 player will play CD discs containing compressed MP3 files, as used on MP3 players, in which case several albums will fit on one disc. True audio CDs actually have better sound quality, but in the environment of a car, there's absolutely no difference.

Answer 4

CD is the actual disc format.  Most cd do NOT play mp3 music FILE FORMAT.  Some newer CD players will.

MP3 is the file format (not the actual medium - like CD, SD card, memcard, etc.)

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Actually the CD (music format) is the higher quality than MP3 format.  But you can store much more music on MP3 because it is compressed.

>> ony cd radio mp3

That could mean that it can handle CD with mp3 files OR it could just mean that it has AUX input so you can CONNECT a separate mp3 player.  Check it out before you buy.

Good luck...