redondoman

My single disc dash CD player won't play long mixed CDs. Is this something that can be fixed with a software upgrade or did we just get a cheap CD player?

kigerka

Maybe it is the brand of discs you use. Almost all of my CDs are the same way and they play just fine.
Or you may have gotten one with a bad laser eye.

herb

when i first got the car it wont play any burned cd's but after they updated the software it play s some of it only when the cd's are scratch free.. so it might have something to do with the cd...try diff cd with no scratch.. hope that helps

Rudy

A couple of additonal things to keep in mind when using/making "home burnt" CD's:

- Many CD players (not CD-ROM drives) have a hard time playing CD-RW discs. Stick with CD-R's for better compatibility.

- No matter what the maximum burn speed you're CD burner supports, it's always a good idea to burn things that you intend to play in stereos, etc. at the slowest speed allowed by your software. The slower burn speed will help your discs be more universally compatible in other types of equipment.

skidster

burn speed NOT= to device compatability

kigerka

Software and Hardware companies recommend not to burn over 24x. I have burned at 40x, by accident and it worked fine, but, I usually burn between 16-24x and they always play fine.

ULtraPLanet

I agree about slowing down the burn speed and using CD-R's. Also be careful not to go over the mb limit of the disc. Like when you put your disc together right up to the limit and then your software adds those annoying 2 second spaces between tracks.

SkiScubaSailDude

Also, make sure that you are "closing the session" on the music CD... otherwise it is not playable in normal CD players. I have burned many a disk and played in my E60 so far.

kigerka

Ultraplanet,
You can get rid of those 2 second pauses by selecting the properties of the track and changing seconds to frames and change the number of frames from 150 to 1. You can do that to all of them but track 1.

Rudy

You're right, I forgot about that one. The easiest way to do this is to use the "disc at once" feature that most burning software has. I think doing that also helps out with the pause between songs.

Skidster, what makes you so sure that the burn speed isn't related to device compatibility?

In my first-hand experiences, many times it clearly made the difference between a disc that a player wouldn't even recognize and a disc that played perfectly every time.