2nd Gen Non-Engine/Transmission CDR's in Stock radio...

[schu777]

Hi Everyone,



Since my win98 PC is behaving now, I'm starting to the process of burning my Audio CD's to play in the Truck. But a thought just came across my head that maybe, just maybe the Stock radio doesn't do to good with the CDR's... has anyone had experiance in doing this?



Thanks, Michael

 

[TXRam]

Works fine in mine!

I thought about that too, but they play just as nice as the original CD.

 

[SS]

The older (maybe up to 1999 or 2000?) CD players are more sensitive to CDR's than the newer ones. You should have no trouble with a 2002 truck. May still find one that doesn't play right, but it should be pretty rare. I think the manual tells you not to record over 70 minutes even on an 80 minute CD. Could get stuck in the player!

 

[TxDieselKid]

I hate the stock radio....

IF mine will play a CDR i burned 5 minutes ago, it will only play for about 2 months. After this it will play more static then anything else. Remeber this is if it plays in the first place. And I have a 2001. 5.



Andrew

 

[EScott]

If the first time you burn a CD-R it doesn't work, start playing around with your burner's settings. The deck in my truck is an older Clarion and it will play anything. The factory deck in my wifes Cherokee will only play them if I set the burner up for "CD at once" vs one file at a time.





Erin

 

[TXRam]

????

I have a 99 and I've done 'em file at a time and copy the whole CD - no static, no problems. And they have been playing for 2 months. Guess there's one part on my truck that does work the way it should!

 

[E7mack96]

Burning

Mine works fine. If you have problems, it could result from "burning" at a faster rate than the cd-r is rated for. The dye on the cd-r may not set up totally and will lend itself to data bit errors

 

[Cooker]

A few suggestions:



Try different brands of blank CD's. The CD player might be a little picky.



When you burn the disc, make sure you finalize, or close the disc at the end of the burining process.



If you have a faster CDR (16x +) you might try buring at a slower speed.

 

[MCummings]

Try burning on the 74 minute discs. 80 minute discs had a hideous time playing in my player,, (Even when I burned only 1-2 songs on it)



I had EXCELLENT results with the Maxell CD-R Music 74 minute CD's. My stock infinity played them perfect, and just as good as a store bought CD.



The symptoms my Infinity player had with 80 minute discs was the player would skip very easily,, just changing lanes and hitting the reflectors in the road would make it skip,, and when changing tracks it would always take about 15+ seconds to find the next track,, even if it was the same song (rewind) or the next track.



I have an Eclipse stereo now, and it would probably play records that are folded in half, LOL it plays anything, and I haven't ever had it skip. Not to mention a amp that is 45Wx4 and speakers that handle over 90W, plus Subs, that go "Thump" , lets just tsay, after putting some good speakers and an amp in my truck,, the stock Infinity was to say "Lacking"



Merrick Cummings Jr



Whew,, that's a long post.

 

[MCummings]

Click here to go to the same problem brought up awhile back



Merrick Cummings Jr

 

[Terry]

The ones I burn on my computer work great in my Dodge, heck I even use the cheapest CD's I can find under $20. 00 for 100 of them. My friend however uses fancy CD's and makes nice label's for them and they wont play a lick in my Dodge but they work fine in his 1999 Chev. Funny thing is if I copy his CD's on my computer they play fine in my Dodge, pretty strange.

 

[me4osu]

CDRs

I have about ten of them that I play in the stock CD player in my rig. I use maxell and memorex MUSIC CDRs. They work great when burned at 4x, any lower and the CD takes forever to start a track. The software I use is Adaptec Easy CD Creator and I try to get just under 80 min on the CD. No problems.

 

[Mark_Kendrick]

You mean you guys still have a stock radio. . that was my first BOMB

 

[Un-Hemi]

OK, you guys that are not having problems with your burned CDs, WHAT BRAND of burner are you using???

 

[SS]

I have an hp cd-writer 9300 series using Adaptec Easy CD Creator 4 and Maxell 80 minute music CD-R's.

 

[JGabl]

COOKER NAILED IT!

It's the way your burner is configured, not the stereo. You must close the session AFTER all the tracks are recorded. You can go and record tracks(songs) individualy, leaving the session open, untill the cd is filled, then close the session. This is all done within the burner program. Usualy the default setting will close the session for you.

If your having problems with the tracks transfering, or the recording suddenly stops, SLOW IT DOWN!! After all this is a burner, not a CTD!!! Jim.

 

[me4osu]

Originally posted by TommyTurbosaurus

OK, you guys that are not having problems with your burned CDs, WHAT BRAND of burner are you using???

I use a backpack external burner on the USB port on my laptop.

 

[1tuffram]

I decided to get with the times and burn my own cd's, but have a problem with them playing in the OEM CD player of my 2002 truck. The problem is it takes awhile for the CD player to start playing the burned cd and if I skip/FF to a different song it takes about 30-60 seconds for the cd player to locate the track and start playing. I can hear the CD player "hunting" for the track. It find tracks quicker at the first part of the burned CD (say 30 seconds or sooner), but if I skip to a track towards the middle or end of the CD it takes close to 60sec or longer before the CD player will start playing the song. If I just let the CD play there is no problems with going from the end of one song to the start of the next.



I can play my burned cds without a hitch in my computer, home stereo, neighbors home stereo and the aftermarket Clarion unit in my '95 truck. This problem of "hunting" for tracks just exists with the OEM units in my 02 truck and the Honda Civic (wifes rid).



I am using Maxell CD-R Gold music (80min) cd's. I have used both Roxio easy cd creator 5 and Windows media player programs to burn my cd's and noticed the Windows media player software made the problem worse. The settings have been set to the highest quality (cd quality) and I burned at whatever the fastest speed is for Roxio (default setting) and used a slower 8X speed on Windows Media player hoping that was the problem. I saved all the songs to the hard drive then re-copied them from the hard drive to the burner (directions state this is best to avoid "under-run" and any problems). I also checked the option to put a 2 second pause between songs. Don't know if it will matter or help but my computer uses Windows XP home edition has a pentium 4 processor @ 2 GHz, 256 MB RDRAM, and the burner is a 24x/10x/40x CD-RW Drive with Roxio's Easy CD creator.



Do you think I need a different software program to burn cd's (see some people here using Adaptec brand)? Or could simply buying a different brand of CD-R music cd's or maybe a 74 min instead of 80 min cd cure the problem?? Maybe burn at a 4X speed? My neighbor uses those Memorex CD-R music cd's in the various cools (80 min) and burns at 16X with the Windows media player software and has no problem with his cd's playing in either of his cars (OEM radio's). Nor has he had any problems with the cd's he burns for friends. I'll see if my neighbor will give me one of his Memorex cd's and cross my fingers.



Like I said earlier the cd's I burned play with absolutley no problems in anything other than the OEM radio' s in the truck and car.

 

[dmurdock]

Plextor 12x4x32 SCSI (of course ) external. I burn my roms on whatever we have in stock at work. . hehehe. They've all played fine. I do recommend burning at "low" speed (every burner is differnt i suppose, on mine, anything over 8x is "high" speed). The audiophiles in the office swear by the "audio" roms... I'd use these for something you plan on keeping. I keep most of my cd's on the floorboard and when they quit playing i just toss'em and burn another. . at 20 cents a pop who cares...

 

[Bandit1]

i have a prob of my stock radio playing cdr's. the only way mine will play is if i burn on 2x and make sure to finalize the session.