3.2TL CD Player

Its just a matter of luck. Try different brand CDs and try burning them at slower burn speeds. Eventually you'll find some that will work.

On Mon, 14 Nov 2005 00:01:17 GMT, E Meyer let slip this dark secret:

I tried different brands of CD, different speeds, but nothing really worked. I ended up with an iPod connected through one of those cassette things. Now *that* works well!

My 2000 TL has always played the cheapest bulk CDs burned by the superdrive on my Mac. Have you tried a different burner or different software on your burner?

Mine has similar behaviour to the original poster. I have found that generic CD's will work but not very well. It gets worse if the car is cold or you are trying to play a track further toward the end of the CD. The disk usually plays fine if you run it continuously from start to finish but if you stop the drive does this continuous seek behaviour looking for the track. The all black Memorex CD's however always seem to work perfectly for me.

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Did you do a straight copy of the CD music or did you convert them to MP3's? If MP3's, it probably means your car CD player does not play MP3's.

----------- Alex

On Mon, 14 Nov 2005 15:17:55 GMT, Mike Drechsler - SPAM PROTECTED EMAIL let slip this dark secret:

Didn't work for me! (2001 TL)

the car. Is there any way to tweak the system so that it will play the CD's?

On Sat, 26 Nov 2005 20:11:20 -0500, Sid Schweiger let slip this dark secret:

I you look around here a little harder, you will realise that there is no magic solution. Good luck.

Personally, I ended up with an iPod and one of those cassette adapters.

In addition, CD-Rs use various dyes. If you are using green CDs, you can try blue ones (and vice-versa.) I don't think there is one fixed answer.

Mike

I think Alex has diagnosed your problem. Make sure they are NOT MP3 format...