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[optomos]

I bought me a new ride and the stock head unit does not like burned cd's.

On some it will take forever to read, then it will work only untill you skip a track, then you have to wait again till it can read it. Some cd's, it just wont play at all. Each cd has been burned differently; some were in bin/cue format and some were converted from mp3 to audio cd format.

Whats the problem? Is it the software im using? Any ideas.... Tnx

This post has been edited by optomos: Apr 19 2005, 04:02 PM

[Audiyoda]

Plenty of head units for mobile audio don't like CD-R's. Ever noticed units that are sold often say 'CD-R ready' or something to that effect? My Tundra stock unit wouldn't play my CD-R's regardless of what I used to burn them. The issue is that a CD-R is about 88% as reflective as a pressed CD. For a car head unit, that 12% is night and day. With all the motion the head unit goes through on a daily basis, the laser can't track a CD-R correctly.

My best advice would be to find an affordable head unit that will read CD-R's.