Putting songs into the hard drive in a way that sounds good.

If you put a CD into your Cadillac CTS sound system and press record the songs will be encoded into mp3 format and be playable from the hard drive. But, they will sound bad! The reason is that the encoder in the CTS encodes the music in low quality so the songs take up less space on the hard drive and you can fit more songs.

To put relatively good sounding songs into the CTS hard drive, make higher quality mp3s on your computer. I like the highest quality mp3 setting (320 Kbps). Then, put those song files on a CD-r, load that into the CTS sound system and press record to put them on the CTS hard drive. Now when you play the songs directly from the CTS hard drive they will sound pretty darn good. Not CD or vinyl quality, but much better than letting the CTS sound system encode the files.