Playing MP3 CDs

[PeterE]

Just acquired a brand-new Ibiza 1.2 TSi Sport in Dakota Red (and very nice it is too). But the CD player won't play an MP3 CD I've recorded - just spits it out saying "disc fault". I was really looking forward to this function having not had it on my previous car.

I've just recorded it using the "create data disk" function in Windows Media Player.

Any thoughts?

 

[VRSLOZ]

Should work fine mate, did you make it as a music disc or data disc??

 

[PeterE]

Should work fine mate, did you make it as a music disc or data disc??

Created it as a "data disc", as I said.

 

[anthedge]

I use Itunes. Has always worked. Create a playlist, burn to CD, select create MP3 disc. All the tracks must have version 1 ID tags before doing this so that the names of artist/song is displayed. Itunes can do this as well. Just select all the tracks and then right click on them and there will be an option.

 

[VRSLOZ]

Sorry mate missed that, I think you need to create a music disc rather than a data disc

 

[TTX]

Burn it as a data disc, be sure to select the "no multisession" option in your burning program. If you select music disc, your MP3s will be converted to CDA and you'll only get a few songs on a disc!

I use ImgBurn - http://www.imgburn.com

 

[Byers080]

Use iTunes to make life easy. Needs to be a music disc, otherwise it just burns it as it would for a memory stick to transport it.

 

[PeterE]

But surely if I burn it as a music disc, I am limited to 80 minutes of music. Audio CDs which I have burned in the past work fine.

 

[VRSLOZ]

Did you get the optional combined aux/USB?

 

[NickYO]

windows media player tends to burn using WMA which wont be reconnized by your car, convert them to mp3 and they should work fine.

 

[jc_boc]

I am sure media player can convert to MP3 and burn it that way onto a disc? I am stupid with things like this but I am sure I have done it before.

 

[bigman75]

Hi peterE

TTX is right. Create an data disc but ensure you select "no multi-session." Windows Media player 10 & 11 support burning to mp3. You'll need to change that within preferences. It defaults to WMA and the Ibiza won't like that!

Further to this, have look through your handbook pack. There should be an separate booklet for the stereo. It explains how the file structure works on creating an MP3 CD.

Blank cdr's give you 80 mins for an music cd or 700MB of data capacity (mp3.)

In this case, you have 700mb to play with.

If you burn your mp3's at 256kbps, that could be around 6mb per song. So maybe 150 songs will fill an cdr. It's all guesstimates tho. Depends on track length and indeed what you prefer to encode your discs at.

Sorry, if I'm teaching you sucks eggs. Not sure of your IT capability?

Let me know how you get on.

BTW, I use Easy CD-DA extractor 12 or free Media Monkey

Cheers

Andy

 

[PeterE]

I appear to have solved this problem now by:

(a) ensuring that all files copied are actually .mp3s - some for some reason were .wmas, which isn't obvious if creating playlists in Windows Media Player

(b) putting all files into one directory and burning them directly to the CD using Windows Explorer rather than Media Player. That's a bit more laborious but (touch wood) it seems to work

Possibly if I ensured there were no .wmas Windows Media Player would burn the discs OK - maybe I'll give that a try sometime.