Just for everyone's information, you can play MP3's in the GS. All you need to do is use Ulead Burn.Now software (on a PC) and choose to make a DVD-Audio Disk. It requires that you have a DVD burner in your computer (only about $100). You can burn up to 99 songs on one DVD-R (or DVD+R) disk. It works perfectly in my new GS430. Let me know if anyone has questions about how to do this.

http://www.ulead.com/bn/runme.htm

 

Technically, even though you may have used MP3s as the source for your compilation disc, the disc does not have MP3 encoded files on it. It has the PCM that was decoded from the MP3s. You can make such a disc directly from your CD collection as well and not impose the degradation of the MP3 codec in the middle.

What people were hoping to do was put the actual MP3 encoded files on discs for the car system to decode. But it cannot as it has no MP3 decoder in it. But I'll be making my discs the way you did--CDs compiled to DVDs. That's almost 600 tracks in the 6-disc changer, or 40 hours of music.

 

That program offers a free 30 day trail if anyone is interested:

http://www.ulead.com/bn/trial.htm

I wish to play some video game mp3s I found on a legal site

 

There is another possible solution. There are programs (look at www.audio-dvd-creator.com as one example) that can let you convert your MP3s to AC3 (at 192 Kbps). This can put as much as 45 hrs. of music on a single sided DVD-/+R, and double that on a double sided disc. The problem is how to navigate between songs. One can use 99 chapter marks to move quickly between albums, but you may need to FF between songs in a given albums. I have not tried it yet, but the lack of an MP3 decoder with a corresponding nice user interface to choose is a significant Lexus oversight, and is very likely to be corrected in future versions (as is implied on the new IS)