Percent of CD players able to play MP3 CDs

[mstout2014]

For years our church has made tapes of sermons. Now we also capture them digitally and post to the website. I want to make periodic CD's of them. I can do three sermons to an audio CD or 26 weeks worth of MP3's to a 650 meg CD.

But how likely am I to run into a member of the congregation whose CD cannot play MP3 CD's?

[guns1inger]

Very. Most CD players older than 2 years old will not play MP3 from a CD. A high % of CD players produced since that time (better than 50%) do not play MP3 audio from CD. If your congregation is an older demographic then I would suggest most of them won't know what to do with an mp3 CD.

[mstout2014]

Very. Most CD players older than 2 years old will not play MP3 from a CD. A high % of CD players produced since that time (better than 50%) do not play MP3 audio from CD. If your congregation is an older demographic then I would suggest most of them won't know what to do with an mp3 CD.

Thanks. That's what I needed to know. I didn't have a good feel for how frequently that was in players, past or present.

[Cornucopia]

What about users with DVD players?
The percentage of those who can read mp3 is probably a good deal higher.

Higher still, is Audio-on-VCD (like VCDEasy's site suggests). While mp2 isn't as bitrate efficient as mp3, VCD's Mode2 has more capacity than Mode1, so it's probably a wash, capacity-wise (~26 sermons/disc). (Even though VCD compatibility is focused on anymore, ) The percentage of DVD players that support VCD is still quite high.

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You could just make a "Music-DVD" (DVD-Video with the audio being primary).

Scott