Factory CD player won't read burned cd's

I've had this problem with several auto CD players.

I've found that usually you can make them readable if you burn them at a S-L-O-W speed. Usually 8x-12x is okay but sometimes I have to go slower.

Give that a try

are you burning in CD format or mp3? lots of players won't play mp3 disks.

Good question, I was assuming she was getting a read error message.

FWIW: I use Nero ver 6.6

Try to burn them to a re-writible disk as well. Often they will work when the burn once ones will fail.

That is just what happens to me. Try burning one at 4x and see if that works and then ramp up the speed. You might also want to verify the burn.

Like I said before mine work fairly dependably at 8x or 12x, when I up the rate to 16x the failure rate increases greatly.

Note that in 1998, writeable CD's were either very new or didn't exist (I forget which).

My older home CD jukebox will play CD-R disks that are formatted as standard audio CDs, but it doesn't like CD-RW at all and will not play any sort of MP3.

My newer players deal with all of the above with no problems at all, because they were designed with the newer formats in mind.

So, yes, it could very well be that your unit will not play burned CDs at all. Factory head units tend not to be the best at any rate.

Just thought I'd chime in.

Regards,

DAve

billy ray wrote:

In article , Kerilyn512 wrote: #Does anyone know of a certain cd that can be read on factory cd players? My #98 Jeep Grand Cherokee won't read ones that I have and I'd rather not put in #a different stereo if there's a specific blank cd that can be read in it. #

I have had really good luck with Verbatim Digital Vinyl CD-Rs burned at 4x to 16x, but most types I have tried--stuff from Office Depot, Office Max, etc--will work if burned at 1x.

If your media is not working, try it at 1X.

/herb

Try a different brand of disk. The dye/burner combination may be incompatible with your player.

Many cd players require the cd to be "closed" before they will read the cd. Your burner program should have some kind of routine that closed the files on the cd.

Also, some cd players don't handle multi session discs and will only play files burned on the last session before a disc was closed.

Kerilyn512 proclaimed:

I have the same problem. The newer very silvery cyan style CD's won't read worth a darn even if I burn them at 4X with a 1x over power adjust on a Plextor. I still have a pretty good stash of the gold looking ones that work if I keep the burn speed to 16X and set the laser power to 1X on a Plextor and use either the Plextor burn utilities or Roxio/Sonic to burn. The crappy Roxio stuff that you get with RealAudio or WinXP doesn't work at all. Cow orker claims that the dark blue-green style blanks also work on his ZJ. You don't really need the

For the gold surface, have same luck with Yamaha, Memorex, Kodak and am just using the computer style ones, limited to 74 minutes total.

I don't think we've ever heard back from Kerilyn512 to see what the current status is with her problem

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I always burn audio CD's using a CD burner, not a CD/DVD burner. Up to 12X is the last linear speed. Always make CDA as DAO and close the session. I burn CDA at 8X. In Nero select all but the first track, select properties and set the gap for ZERO seconds.

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