2002 Wrangler Radio

I put one of these in my 93 YJ

Lots of questions. Answers:

1. It isn't an MP3 player. It won't play those.
2. You'd have to see if there are RCA jacks on the back (or an auxilliary plug in the front/back) to hook in the MP3/Satellite radio into.

It's probably be easier just to buy a new head unit. Don't forget -- satellite radio requires a decoder. So if you buy a head unit that's "XM" or "Sirius" ready, that just means it has controls (except for an AIWA unit that costs $$$$). You still have to put the antenna on the outside of the vehicle and mount a small box (about an inch thick and 6 or so inches length/width -- depends on model) inside to decode the signal (again, except for with the AIWA -- I think -- model).

Sorry, I did a LOT of research on XM radios before I bought one for my wife's XJ. In the end it was easiest just to get the FM modulator. Works well. I might get the part that attaches between the antenna cable and head unit to increase the reception -- most frequencies are very close to an already used one causing interference.

Just google it.

Eric

Cough up the FM mod with an ipod. Got to pay if you want to play kind of thing.

Only other option is an tape player connection for the mp3 player. That i know of anyway.

Ipod really is the best. My sister has one, with the FM mod. Can't go wrong. Esp when you have approx 4,000 MP3's.Use it as a hard drive too. 40gig is the standard I believe. Haven't checked in a while.

Guess those guys at RIAA don't have this problem in the limo. ;-)

I'm sure you know this but make sure u are using CD R and not CD RW, as this can be a big deal.

You could buy a new head unit if you like it but if you like your current system and have a bunch of MP3's and can get a snazzy ipod? Why not?

Lastly almost no one gets their stock head unit stolen..

-Brian

You're talking about burned CDs that play in CD players, not CDs with mp3s on them, correct?

I discovered in my 2002 TJ (same radio as described below) that certain discs would play and certain discs would not. Visually, the discs that did better were a darker green color on the burned side as opposed to the CDRs that are more of the plain silver color.

I don't have a real need for it and I haven't had the inclination to do so, but I would recommend going to your local computer store or office supply store and just buy one pack of every kind of CDR, then burn one of each and test to see which brand does better. Time consuming and expensive, but it would be interesting to see what the differences are.

Another thing that I noticed is that on some of the CDRs, it will only track to the first couple of songs. So if I go for a long ride, I can start the CD from the beginning and it will play all the way through, but if I try to skip a track, or if I hit a bump in the road, sometimes the laser gets 'lost' and I have to retrack/restart the CD from the beginning.

Pete

Yep ('05 model). I just put the disc in.

The trick is to burn a valid CD. That took me a few tries to get right. Test the disc in a regular CD player first to avoid excess trips outside and back to the computer. (Note: this is -not- illegal, I paid for the music that I put on an expendable disc so that the original won't be damaged)

Here are the steps, using my computer :

First rip the original disc $ cdda2wav -vall cddb=0 -D2,0 -B -Owav Obtain necessary privileges to write to the burner $ su root Burn the audio to the blank disc # cdrecord -v dev=ATAPI:0,0,0 -dao -audio -useinfo -text -eject *.wav

Note that I have a Real Operating System on my computer

-D

Ripping from a damaged source disc can result in an invalid rip that may cause trouble in some players. You can use the -paranoia switch on cdda2wav (or use cdparanoia instead of cdda2wav) for scratch reconstruction and super robust verification and synchronization. Takes a long time to run but sometimes mandatory for a clean rip.

:)

Steve

I'll make a note of that. I used to use cdparanoia, but then I discovered that cdda2wav works nicely and gives me the disc/track info too (CDDB lookup). The '-paranoia' switch will provide the remaining functionality cdparanoia has over cdda2wav. Thanks.

-D

Well I amk talking about the cd's I burn on my pc that I download from I-tunes. MP4s I guess but I have MP3's I sometimes get from IRC as well. I have bought a few dance cds that are from Austraila and other places that won't play either. But they will play in other cd players in other cars. A

When I put the CD in the palyer makes noise like it wants to read the cd then it says error and spits it back out.

Thanks for your help.

David

I am going to try this to see what happens.

Thanks,

David

Make sure you are burning audio CDs. I've never used iTunes to burn a CD (I found other ways to remove the DRM and reclaim my fair-use rights) but I know it has that capability.

For iTunes Music Store, the file is MPEG Layer 4 encoded audio stored in an AAC container.

One way or another you need to convert the audio that you have into WAV format for creating an audio CD. The mechanics of doings this depend on the tools you have available.

You can verify the disc you already made by putting it in your computer's cd drive and see if the system shows you a bunch of files or if it indicates it is an audio, not data, disc. Are you using OSX or Windows? IIRC Windows Explorer appears to show files named "Track

Maybe the producer of those CDs tried to use other means of inhibiting copying -- namely making an invalid disc that most regular cd players will ignore, but some end up being unable to read them. IMO this is a very bad choice on the part of the producer. (I'm not naming any specific producers, but I have read a few articles pertaining to this matter)

FWIW, when I incorrectly burned my audio CDs, I had the following experience trying to play it: The player would show the wrong track time, then skip some of the music and then show the right time and play the rest of the track correctly. However, the player would "hang" when it was supposed to move on to the next track and eventually eject the disc saying it is unreadable. I could verify similar behavior with both my computer and my cd/dvd player. When I finally used the correct set of options to 'cdrecord' the disc played fine in all three players.

HTH,

-D