I am recording LP’s, exporting them and putting them on a flash drive. I am using a 256 GB Scandisk USB 3.0. I recorded an LP using a 24-bit format and 96000Hz sample rate. Then I exported the LP to a WAV 24-bit file. These songs were then copied to the USB. When I plug the USB into my car, the songs show up on the screen as they normally would, however there is no sound. I am not getting any error message, so I think it is recognizing the file. It’s as if it is either trying to play the music (or read the file) but for some reason is not able to, or it is playing the music (or reading the file) but is not producing any sound. If it was a file the car could not play or recognize, I would think it would give me an error message.
I tried exporting to a FLAC file and the songs did not show up at all in the car. I also tried exporting to a WAV 16-bit file and got the same results as above.
I am able to play this recording from the USB on my home stereo with no problems.
Also, I am able to play WAV files in my car from CD’s that were ripped and are saved on the same USB drive. So I know the car USB recognizes WAV files (at least from the ripped CD’s). It is odd that it plays WAV files from the ripped CD’s but not from the audacity export.
How can I get my car to play the music that was recorded from an LP preferably in a 24-bit recording?
WAV files ripped from Audio CD are in 16-bit 44100 format. Try that.
24-bit format and 96000Hz sample rate is a recording studio format. I would not expect your car to be able to play them. It’s also great overkill for vinyl rips, but if you want to retain those for archive, that’s fine. Just downsample the works to 44100 for playing in the car.
There is a historical precedent for doing this. Even if you want to play works on your Personal Music Player in MP3, capture the vinyl in 44100, 16-bit (or higher) for archive and then produce the MP3. You should not be able to tell the difference between the WAV and the MP3. The real difference is the ability to edit and convert the WAV to anything else. In general, you can’t edit an MP3 without creating sound damage
We don’t know anything about your car stereo… Do you have any specs?
I recorded an LP using a 24-bit format and 96000Hz sample rate. Then I exported the LP to a WAV 24-bit file…
Also, I am able to play WAV files in my car from CD’s that were ripped and are saved on the same USB drive. …
The CD rips are probably 44.1kHz/16-bit. (That’s the underlying format on audio CDs, although they are not in WAV format.) So, try exporting/converting to 44.1/16.
…24/96 is overkill for vinyl which has limited dynamic range (due the noise). In fact, it’s overkill for just about everything since nobody can hear the difference between a high-resolution original and a copy downsampled to 44.1/16 ( in a proper scientific, blind, [u]ABX test[/u]). …Lots of people hear a difference in non-blind listening tests.
One downside to WAV files is that metadata (embedded artist/album/title/etc. info or “tags”) is not widely supported so the player probably can’t read it. But, it you want to go lossless it may be the only lossless format your player supports.
