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mp3 mpeg 2 to mpeg 1

Aug 23, 2009 12:36AM PDT

Hello,

I have an old car stereo MP3 player. I burn mp3 cd's and it usually works, but I burned a CD recently, and while the player can read the ID3 data, it says the actual audio is incompatible.

The only difference I see in the MP3's that work and the MP3's that don't is that the ones that work say:

"MPEG 1 LAYER III"

while the ones that are incompatible say:

"MPEG 2 LAYER III"

So, I want to know, where can I get a converter to convert from the 2 to the 1? I searched for "MPEG 2" to "MPEG 1", but all that comes up is video converters. Does that make sense?

What should I do? Thanks!

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