850 Cd Changer

[BeachRat]

After not seeing anything on this site specific to this problem, I decided to post.

Has anyone had success with downloading .mp3 format files and burning them onto a CD playable in the standard changer? I can get the CD to play if I select the disc, and let it run itself. But as soon as I try to change the track, or if I pause/turn off the head unit, the CD will not play back unless I select another disc and then switch back to the first one. This problem only occurs with CD's composed of various songs. CD's I own that I've copied play back just fine, and I've used the same brand of CD's and the same program (Roxio Easy CD creator) to make them.

At first I thought maybe it was a format compatibility issue, but each track plays just fine if I let it play through on it's own. As soon as I interrupt that in any way, it messes up. Anyone else having this problem? I've tried the same CD with the same program on 2 different burning drives so I don't think it's a hardware issue.

Edit: These "homemade" CD's also play without problems in my Sony CDP-310 which is way older than this Volvo changer.

[Deltablade]

I've had problems in the past playing burned cds where it simply doesn't play, but usually when it let me play it, I could skip around and do whatever. BTW, my cd changer has a mind of its own and will occasionaly just spit the mag out and when you put it back in, it won't play, it'll just say "E". But usually when I can get it to start playing, I'm golden.

[TheGuv]

I think the best way to get around the changer is burn the cd's at a very low speed. 4 or 8x for example. Apparently the burn goes a lot deeper than if you do it at 10,12,16 etc... speeds. I've burned at 16 and it's been dodgy but burn at 4x and no problems. I think that the changer just needs a better burn so it can read it rather than any issues with media or music.

[BeachRat]

I'm pretty sure I burned it at 8x. Definitely not 16, it took a while to burn. I'll have to experiment tomorrow with other CD burning software. Maybe it's having trouble recognizing individual tracks or something like that. Definitely very screwy.

[potroast]

I have a 40X CD-RW (Lite-On) and a 52X CD-RW (MSI) and I've never had a problem playing CD's in my Alpine changer connected to the factor SC-810 deck.

My parents have a crappy 12X CD-RW (Sony) that also has no problems.

[maiku]

use NERO burning rom

and burn in the audio format

i use it all the time

takes less than 10 minutes at 8X (my max burn speed)

i've also burned using a 48X burner (but at 40x speed)

and i play them just fine in the Cd changer

in fact, all the Cd's in my changer are burned

[BeachRat]

in fact, all the Cd's in my changer are burned

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So are all the ones I use. But they're all just copies of CD's I own (made with the same Roxio program). It's the ones I make from mp3's on my computer that aren't working the entire time. Thank you though, I'll look at Nero.