MP3 CD Player problems...

[DarrylJ]

I've had a problem since day one with the CD Player.

MP3 discs are really hit and miss and I don't know why.

Anyone got a working way of doing them? I'm just burning them as a data disc and you'd have thought it would work all the time... but it doesn't... I've had one working in the whole time I've had it.

I can use Deezer which is free with the network I'm on, but I'd rather just have it on disc.

Cheers

[Bigfeet]

Are you using a CD-R or CD-RW?

[DarrylJ]

Yeah they're just CD-R's mate

[Bigfeet]

The way I've done it in the past was to just open the disc and drag and drop the MP3's I wanted in a single directory structure, always worked for me like that.

[DarrylJ]

First time I done it, I'm positive it was folder formatted by album. I'll give that a try now and i'll report back.

[Itchy]

I had the same problem with eMyWay, again and again. Not only while playing MP3 CDs but also with MP3 on USB sticks.

I searched in the manuals and found the following:
The filenames of the MP3s should not be longer than 20 characters. And they should not include special characters like !?_'* etc.
On CDs you can have up to 8 folders, but not more than 2 levels (folder\subfolder\subsubfolder won't work properly).
On USB sticks, you can have a bigger count of folders in 8 levels.
On both media, there should not be any other stuff than music files. No documents, pictures, executables etc. Could damage the player SW.

I made another MP3 CD with shorter filenames, and it seems to work so far. Nearly all songs are played from beginning to the end. Only one was interrupted. But I experienced, that most cars have problems with the hardware. E.g. driving a narrow bend can trigger an action like "go next" or "change source".

The stick I had in use does not work properly anyway, I will try another one soon.