Do those Mini CDRs play in regular stero equipment?

[buzzinhornets]

I've seen mini CDRs in stores that are about 3inches in diameter. Do these play in regular stero equipment? (For audio cds I mean)

[Romper]

As long as they have an indent so that they sit exactly in the middle!

[buzzinhornets]

What about in a car CD deck? Like a front loading one, where you place the CD in slightly and it loads the rest of the way by itself? Is that dangerous to try? Anyone had any success?

[tigerwolf]

I wouldn't try it with a front loader of a car stereo.
its likely it won't really take it anyway, but if it does more then likely it will get jammed.

[Romper]

Definately for tray loaders only, not for slot loaders (car or PC)>

[assassin]

I have a ring that you can snap a miniCD in to and it makes the diameter 5 1/4" or whatever the regular cd is.
I still wouldn't trust it in a slot loading player though. I have no idea if they still make these rings.
I like to use those miniCDs to put together mp3 party mixes and then when I'm at a buddies I can pull out my portable party mix and pop it in his system. Tres cool.

[DaBigPimp]

well of couse you will be able to place a mini cd into a type of loader that will load automaticly as long as you put it in the middle i have been doind it for 6 months now and i have yet to see a problem

the bad this is they only hold 185 megs of info they can store

but i have seen some that hold 210 megs and are cdrw but i have never seen or had one


well hope this answers you questions

BYE

[Romper]

Assassin,
I haven't seen one of those rings for years.

DaBigPimp,
You're one brave cookie, I've seen it happen once (and heard one other story) where someone put a mini CD in a slot drive (and yes they put it in the middle) and the drive wouldn't pick it up (but I will admit that the drive was an older model slot loader).

I haven't been brave enough to put one in a slot loader drive ever since (not that it really matters, I only have 1 3inch CD single and 4-5 3inch CDR's).

Yes they look great but they're just a novelty thing, although I do like the Business Card CD's that hold 30 - 50Mb.

[buzzinhornets]

Assassin:

Where did you get that thing for the mini-CDs to fit into?

PIMP:

You mean you've been loading those mini CDRs into a front loading CD Deck, like into the little slot/slit on the faceplate of car CD deck?

[zzyzzx]

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I would not even attempt to do this. If you really want to listen to it in your car then copy it onto a normal sized CD-R

[buzzinhornets]

Well, I finally got up the b*llz to do this and it worked! But before I recommend this to anyone, I can see how it could get easily caught in the cd deck, cause when you eject the cd, the tiny amount of the disk actually makes it outside the player... it tought to grab it.

Also, my tester was a factory 93 Mazda MX6 with factory CD deck (made by pioneer though).

[Thurbs]

Those small mini Cd's remind me of the mid-late 80's you used to be able to buy "singles" that were on them mini cd's how fun.

Don

[buzzinhornets]

yeah, that's why I wanted try em, cause 5 songs is perfect to give as a prize to someone.