Cd player issues

Is it just me or anyone else tried playing lets say a "burnt cd" with mp3s on it or perhaps did I format the disc wrong? Cd player doesnt pick it up

 

lol who uses CDs anymore?

 

I use CDs on occasion when I buy one and haven't imported it to my iPod yet. I also have a handful of MP3 CDs I burned years ago that I used on my Tundra that didn't have a USB port and with the stock head unit. It worked fine in my Tacoma when I used it. It has somewhere around 650MB of MP3 files on it. Burned to a CD-R though iTunes as an MP3 CD.

I'm not sure if it'll work with them just drug on there or done though Windows Explorer. But it worked fine though iTunes (Mac).

 

I'm not too familiar with this, but I know there is a size/file limit with USBs. Maybe its the same with MP3 CDs? Just a thought.

 

Works fine. I have a burned CD that plays fine.

 

Might be the format, bit rate, bad burn, too many songs (doubt it).


The manual might have info about what is and isn't supported.

 

I don't know about these "CDs" but I tried to play a record and the damn thing didn't fit.

 

More or less. Optical media doesn't behave like flash media as far as read/write operations go. CDs do have a limit of 700MB and can fit quite a few MP3s on there. Mine were encoded at 256 kbps and burned though iTunes as an MP3 CD. If you simply throw the files on the CD the head unit might not recognize them as a data CD, but when burned though an media player like iTunes or even Windows Media Player it should put the playlist file on the disc and the HU should recognize it then.

It could also be a bad CD, or a bad burn. You could try a slower burning speed too. I would imagine it would be fine up to the standard 320 kbps for MP3s, since I think a few of mine were at that bitrate and played fine on my Tundra at least. Surely a 2016 head unit is as capable as one from 2007.

 

LOL! That's exactly what I was thinking.

 

Have you tried it on another CD player? I would bet you accidentally burned it as a data disc.

 

dragging music from I-Tunes has never worked for me. you have to send it via whatever the process is in I-Tunes.

 

^ Right. Which would be putting the songs you want into a playlist. Then burning the playlist to disc as an MP3 CD (if needed). If it's not a lot of songs you could get by just making it a normal audio CD too.

iTunes will then go ahead and transcode your music to MP3 regardless of what format it starts out as (MP4/AAC, ALAC, AIFF etc) and burn it to disc readable by your truck.