Toshiba HD-DVD players cant play music files

Let me get this right, your mad HD DVD players wont play MP3's and WMA's?

Get a Slim Devices Squeeze box.

Didn't you keep your old DVD player? Obviously you can still use it for your compressed audio discs.

The current HD DVD and Blu-ray units are not universal players.

For about two seconds I was iritated by this, but then I realized that I never, ever play MP3's on my DVD player anyway. I think it's dumb that they don't, as I can't believe it costs much to add this, but it's not a deal breaker.

I really like being able to see all the songs I have, scroll through them, etc. That is only possible with an HTPC for me. I built a super cheap one to sit right next to my HD DVD player in the cabinet.

Pat

Boo hoo...You will have better quality using the CD's...and don't say the quality doesn't matter because if it didn't why would you need a HD DVD player for??? Quality over quantity every time...

get a TiVo

CD's are a PITA for me! In defense of the OP, I love HD DVD's picture, but also listen to 192 Kbs MP3's regularily. You can be into both, give the guy a break. Convenience sometimes outweighs sonic perfection.

Pat

CD's are a PITA for me, too... but MP3?? Please. Blechh!


Doesn't have to. Ogg is a much better lossy codec and, if you have the disc space, FLAC is completely lossless. And both do gapless playback too, I might add.

As to the OP, I second the "boo-hoo" sentiment. Geez, dude, if CDs are inconvenient, then a disc of MP3s is just a little bit less of the same inconvenience, isn't it? Hook your PC up to your receiver and, if you don't want to re-rip your CDs to a better sounding, higher quality format, do a simple file copy from your MP3 discs to your hard drive, and play them from there using something like Winamp. That way, you're entire collection will be in one place and you'll never even have to touch another disc ever again.

Would you like someone to peel you a grape while you're at it?

Not true! The HD-A1 plays MP3 just fine.