sound formats?

[Matt-UK]

I have tried burning a new music cd compilation to play in m ti and it wont recogniz the disc. I have the stock HU with stock 6 disc changer in the boot.
anyone know what the exact format or disc has to be? tried WAV (pcm).

[davep-uk]

not sure how much help this is but all of the CD's i burn for work have to be the silver coated ones. the blue and green coloured ones wont work in any of our machines. especially the older ones. its to to with refraction of the laser through the coloured portion of the disk.

i use Fuji Audio CD-R 80's

[andyman7931]

try the CD in another cd player too, it may be made incorrectly and not work in any CD player.

I find my wife's ti won't play burned cds well at all. Sometimes it'll say no disc is inserted or it'll skip bad. Cleaning the lens has helped some, but I think soon it'll get yanked and replaced with a mp3 headunit.

[Bluebimma]

Have you tried MP3 format?

[DustenT]

Originally Posted by Bluebimma

Have you tried MP3 format?

The stock head unit will not play mp3s.

The correct format is cda.

[mohaughn]

How are you burning the disk?

If you are using nero you need to make sure that you specify that you want to burn an audio cd. You can't create a data cd with 11 wav files and expect a CD player to play it.

Also, if you cannot set the booktype for the disk many players will not play cd-r or cd-rw's. Not all CD burners let you change the booktype of the the disk.

Booktype basically tells the player what kind of disk it is. So your basic booktypes are CD-rom and DVD-rom. These will be the booktypes for disks that you buy from a manufacturer. Either new music cd's or movies on DVD.

By default almost all cd and dvd burners will assign the booktype of cd-r or cd-rw to burnable CD's. However, there are burners with custom firmware that allow you to change the booktype. So you can burn a CD-r as a CD-rom and then older players that usually won't play burnable disks MAY play them...

There are also issues with the exact type of disk as somebody else has mentioned. I have a mitsubishi DVD player that will not play Fujifilm DVD+r discs. It will only play fujifilm DVD-r's that have had the booktype changed to dvd-rom.

The best site to learn about all of this is cdfreaks.com.

[albi901]

My stock CD changer played 'burnt' CD's no problemo

I either used 'nero or 'music match jukebox' to burn them, but as 'mohaughn' said make sure you select 'create audio disk' and dont select data disk or any other option

your best option is to get rid of your stock head unit and get yourself a mp3 head unit or one that reads DVD MP3 disks like mine then you can have up to 1000 tracks on 1 disk

[impyboy]

in the Cd burning software, look for an option to create musical CD. If you're burning a Data Cd and just dragging WAV files to the cd, the stock unit will not recognise this format.

as mentioned previously, the CD tracks are in CDA format, which the normal cd players will recognise. if you choose the 'create musical CD' option, it will automatically put it in the correct format.

most programs will even allow you to drag mp3s and convert them to the correct format without converting to WAV first

see how u go.

or, you can just upgrade to an aftermarket head unit which can play MP3's and just burn the cd as a Data disk

[Matt-UK]

Cheers for the help. sorted it now I used a programme where it changes mp3 into cda then burns the disc for you. I also changed my discs using only the silver coated ones (thnx davep)