Sahil

I use the in-dash nav dvd player for my music. I burnt around 1.5gb of the 4.7gb DVD+R disc at first, all the songs showed up.
Now when I try and add new files to one of the folders or create a new folder/playlist it does not show up on the iDrive. Although the disc has been burnt properly as it's readable on my laptop and the newly added songs play perfectly.

How can i resolve this problem? I'm tired of burning new cds every time and find it easier to add songs to the dvd as and when needed.

bruce_miranda

Are you trying to use multi-session to add new files to the DVD? I don't think our drives like multi session discs. Try and burn a new DVD with all the old+new files and close the disc at the end and see what happens.

Sahil

Yes, i think i did use multi session. Closing the disc will not solve the problem as I will not be able to add more tracks once done.
I want to be able to add tracks to the disc at a later stage too, looking for a solution to that.

MrG

Sorry, but I don't know of a solution to this. My understanding is the same as bruce_mirada's ... i.e. the in-dash slot doesn't like multi-session disks (so cannot see anything written to the disk in subsequent "sessions"). Not what you'd like to hear, but I think you need to reburn the tracks to a new disks each time.

Rudy

I agree with Bruce and MrG...multi-session discs are not supported by the car...

Nick_H

The other option is to try DVD-RW; I use them successfully in the Nav system for speed cams as I also did not want to keep burning discs everytime a new speed camera database was published. I just erase and rewrite the disc - don't know if it will work for MP3 as I use a 16GB memory stick in the usb socket for all my music. Good luck.

bruce_miranda

In a multi-session the TOC is rewritten in another location and the car is designed to read the TOC only at the beginning so its ignoring all the other TOC versions. The DVD RW is a better solution because then you are effectively rewriting the entire disc again. But here again remember to do a full erase as opposed to a TOC (quick) erase because some systems don't like the left over data that is not overwritten from previous writes.

Rudy

Have we established that an RW disc even works? I seem to remember that it did not work in my 2004 car -- I haven't tried it on my 2008 car since the 6FL pretty much makes it a moot point...

Sahil

Thanks for the replies!

Just got a DVD-RW to try if it resolves this.

@Nick: I have around 3.7gb to burn as of now, do I need to burn the entire disc the first time to enable admending later?

Rudy

You need to burn it using the "disc at once" feature -- in other words, the disc has to be closed for further writing of additional sessions.

When you're ready to update or change the contents of the RW disc, you'll need to erase it and re-burn it using the same, disc at once setting...