nevrev73

Hi!

I just had the MP3 retrofit done on my 530 so that now the idrive plays MP3s. They can be played on the Idrive CD and DVD player.

I dont seem to have a problem with the CD player but if i put too many folders / songs a DVD, the idrive does not seem to read them.

Is there any particular type of DVD i need to use (DVD + or DVD -) and what is the maximum amount of folders that i can put on there.

I have been using nero to burn the DVDs and it seems to read most of them. I know about the max 192KBps bit.

Any ideas of this? Anyone know of any forum links to the best settings for DVDs.

I able to play the DVD MP3s in the car as I have got Nav Pro and i put the DVD in the Nav disc slot

russdx

in diy some were is a thread all about the perfect cd settings for mp3 hehe although theres about 10 different opinions as well lol

there prob is a limit on max folders as this is down to the software to decide how many folders it will support

nevrev73

There seems to be a file limit on them as i seem to only be able to gte around 6 folders on the idrive - each folder has either 2 or 3 other folders in it.

I havednt tried just listing the lot as mp3s and then trying it.

I use the same settings for DVD that you would for CD settings in nero.

Anyone got any ideas or experienced the same problems?

DD_545i

Pure speculation follows:

Maybe it doesn't like finding nested levels of folders (two or more deep). Perhaps it will only tolerate one level of foldering. Also, you might want to limit the number of files in a folder. I know that I've used 165 or so without problem, so the limit is NOT 128, but perhaps it's 256 or 512.

I haven't tried a DVD yet as most of my journeys are fairly short and having 165 songs on a CD is easily enough for my entertainment. Plus I don't want to lose the navi ability.

tsampsel

When I burned my DVD the folders were as follows: mp3/artist/album/songs with "mp3" being the root folder I created on my home pc. Seems to work fine. Today I tried adding catagorization folders prior to the artist. We'll see how that works. mp3/category/artist/album/songs. BTW, I burned 62 CD's (740 songs) on a single layer DVD. Luckily, I know where I'm going most of the time.

BLooD

i have a dvd with nearly 2gb of songs arranged dir/songs, about 200 songs and it works pretty well, some times it fails to play a random song

tsampsel

Maybe it selects the next song randomly...

DD_545i

There's a thought - do we have a random/shuffle feature? I'd quite like that.

BLooD

yes, random dir and random all

BLooD

no it just seams to fail to play a song, some times plays for ages with out problems other times it fails, dont know why