Are there any guidelines to burning MP3 CDs for the TC G2 stock head unit? I tried burning one with 31 files, and it only played about 17 of them (all 10 in a subfolder were recognized, but about 7 of them in the root folder were skipped right over). All of the files are 256 kbps CBR, 44.1KHz joint stereo.

I might try burning another CD with all of the files in subfolders to see if that makes it able to recognize more. These are about 400 MB of trance tracks, which would run 4 hours, 9 minutes, so if I could have all of these accessible on one disc instead of having them on CD-DA among 5 CDs, that'd be nice.

 

Well, I changed the file hierarchy (from "21 files in the root folder and 10 in one subfolder" to "8, 9, 4, and 10 files in four subfolders, and nothing in the root folder") and went out for a quick drive, and it seems to play them all fine. In the original setup, there were files that weren't even being indexed by the player.

The manual to the head unit has an "About folders and MP3/WMA files" section showing an example of a folder hierarchy being indexed, and the tree shows music files (all WMA files and no MP3 files; interesting). Perhaps the file indexer isn't optimized for handling files in the root folder. Oh well, another backup CD I guess. :-)

 

Well there you go. You fixed your own problem. I just burn with i-Tunes and it never has a problem. I have 6 cds in my car with 120 songs on each. Just like a MP3 player.

 

That is the joy of my ipod. I have 4,600 songs and it isn't even half full, gotta love that 30 gig memory.

 

when you burn a CD from iTunes does your headunit recognize the track titles and names? Mine will only recognize the actual file name not the track name.

 

sounds more like the way the burning software you used is arranging the files when they burn.. I've burned cd's before with all of the mp3's in the root.. Never had a problem. must've had 60 songs in the root.. I have chosen "data disc" instead of "mp3 disc" i've seen that if i used the mp3 disc feature it doesn't burn correctly. As a Data disc it works fine..

did you burn it as a data disc? or an mp3 disc?

 

All of mine recognize track title, and artist and file name. I think mine is set up differently cuz a friend of mine uses itunes and his doesnt display that in his tc. But I will try to figure out what I did and post it up. Data discs work just fine too. I did those when I redid my computer and didnt I tunes installed at the time.

 

I have burned all my mp3s as a data cd also without folders... basically the root directory and it works fine. I think however... maybe if you do create folders... then everything has to be in folders... or you can just have no folders. I'd have to try that out to know for sure... but I think that might be the issue.

 

i'm glad you've gotten it to at least work for you.. but i've burned with both ways, nothing but the root, and 60 in the root, and subfolders as well.. never had a problem.. i'm using nero to burn these discs..

 

folders are good for when you have multiple albums on the disc....that way if you want to skip to song #57 you don't have to press the button 57 times. I haven't had any troubles burning MP3s on the disc. I use Sonic burning program and "burn as data disc." the stock headunit plays ASF, WMA, and MP3 audio files so far for me.

 

Yea I used the sonic program. It works great.

 

i'm gonna move this to the tC ice & interior forum.

 

arbnpx...

When you burn a CD, you need to make sure that the CD is closed. Leaving the disk open (also know as "Multi-Session") will let you add files later but confuse the crap out of the HU. There should be a check box in you software to create single or multi-session disks.

Pete

 

I'm able to use Nero to burn a data CD, and I'll organize into folders.

I'm forced to add the track number to the file name b/c apparently the HU doesn't read tag info to see the track number?? Also, it doesn't seem to read any of my ID3 tags or anything, just shows, e.g., 1-1 for folder one track one... I'm not sure why, all my MP3's are named correctly and fully ID3 tagged.

I'm new to the car, so is there a button I need to press to force it to read the tags?

Oh and I think if you're going to use folders, you may have to use all folders. Try that and let us know what happens... good luck

 

Have you tried the "text" button. It changes it from artist, title, file name, etc, etc,

 

1. the track number might not show up, depends on how you've set up the title format to burn..

2. to name the track is common, since it uses the Numeric-Alpha system.. arranges mp3's by number first.. I usually have to put a 1, 2, 3, in front of file names to arrange it the way i like..

3. the text button will scroll through the id3 tags..