Burning CDs for the car

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Burning CDs for the car

When I create a playlist, and burn it to a CD, my car stereo has a lot of trouble reading it, i.e., has a lot of trouble distinguishing between the different songs. Are there any tips for burning CDs so that, for example, if I have 15 songs, that is what my car stereo says, and I can jump to specific songs?

Sony Vaio, Windows XP

Posted on Mar 30, 2006 4:38 AM

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Jeff Bryan

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Mar 30, 2006 4:49 AM in response to Simcan

I have found when burning CDs form iTunes that having the gap between songs set to 2 seconds is best.

What are your settings in preferences/advanced/burning?

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Mar 30, 2006 4:53 AM in response to Jeff Bryan

Thanks for the reply...the setting is already 2 seconds, which doesn't seem to be doing it. Is it the gap, then, that my car stereo uses to recognize one song from another? Or is there some sort of marker one can put between songs?

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Jeff Bryan

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Mar 30, 2006 5:17 AM in response to Simcan

No it's track markers inserted on the CD that enables the CD player to recognize the individual tracks. There is no way of inserting these manually in iTunes, it's done automatically.

Do the CDs play ok on any other CD player other than your car Cd player? As you probably know, some older CD players have difficulty reading burned CDs.

When you say "recognize one song from another", what happens exactly?

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Mar 30, 2006 5:21 AM in response to Jeff Bryan

No, the problem is general (a different car and home stereo, same deal). What I mean is that it seems to "blend" several songs together into one long "song". So that, for example, a 15 song CD will only show as having 3 or 4 songs. One "song" may have four or so actual songs in it.

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Mitch 751

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Mar 30, 2006 5:24 AM in response to Simcan

Excuse me to step in,
There are couple of questions and you have to understand :-

1> Jeff is right - as you probably know, some older CD players have difficulty reading burned CDs.
Most of the Car CD players made before 1999 can't play CDR Music CD

2> When you did the CD burning, which Disc format you selected? Again unless your Car CD players can read MP3 CD, you must choose Audio CD.

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Mar 30, 2006 5:26 AM in response to Mitch 751

Thanks, both of you. The information is that the setting is to Audio, and the car is a 2004 Passat (the other is a 2005 Mazda 3).

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Jeff Bryan

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Mar 30, 2006 5:30 AM in response to Simcan

Actually, there is a specific forum for burning CDs through iTunes for Windows here.

http://discussions.apple.com/forum.jspa?forumID=791

There are probably iTunes FW experts there who rarely visit the iPod forums, and you may get better help if no one comes up with anything here. maybe repost the question over there?

I have to admit that I don't know what the answer is to this. : )

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Mitch 751

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Mar 30, 2006 5:31 AM in response to Simcan

In that case, if you do not mind the sound quality is not as good as a music CD, try to burn in format of MP3 CD. It can burn close to 100 songs in one CD, and get the info of the song as well. Why not have a try?

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Jeff Bryan

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Mar 30, 2006 5:33 AM in response to Mitch 751

Always assuming that the car CD player is capable of reading mp3 CDs. : )

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Mitch 751

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Mar 30, 2006 5:34 AM in response to Mitch 751

Again, I have bad experience with the no name brand CDR, some of them are junk, have your tried the others CDR?

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