I'm sure I closed them out. As cheap as CD-R's are, there is no reason to do several sessions on one CD. I can understand if the unit is a little quirky, but I just want to know what the combination is. I'm going to test out Pittsburgh's theory on the types of burners and formats. Hopefully that is the final definitive answer. God knows Ford doesn't know or doesn't want to acknowledge that there are any flaws with the unit.

Thanks Pittsburgh-05HD. Have you done anymore research on it? Hopefully I will be able to burn some this weekend and make a list of what works and what doesn't.

 

I burned some test MP3 CD's tonight and they all worked!!! Here is a list of the combinations I tried. All discs were Memorex 80 min. CD-R burned at 52x:

Joliet 128kbps
Joliet 192kbps
Joliet 256kbps
Joliet 320kbps
Romeo 128kbps
Romeo 192kbps

I used "Disc-At-Once" when I burned each of them. I started out with just one song, no folders. But after I saw that it read all of them, I made a CD in Joliet format with 2 folders, one song in each (one at 128kbps and one at 192kbps). It read the folders and the files just fine. I think the problem before must have been that I was using some 24x discs. The 52's work!

 

Does not the Manual state how to Burn or what types of CD's work? Never had any problems with Alpine reading mine. it even reads DVD's.

 

The manual may have one sentence on the MP3's. It doesn't even say much about the changer. UPDATE - I copied a CD directly to a CD-R at 52x and tried it this morning. Again, Memorex 80min. 52x; it played fine for about 5 minutes, then it started the digital skip a little... and then a lot. I ejected it before the unit called it a bad disc, but I'm sure it was soon to happen. So, I sorted out the MP3's, but I have to figure out the combination for CD's now. This is a lot of work to get an OEM unit to work properly!!!

 

See if it will read one burned in CDA format.

 

I think that's what the copy is. It doesn't give you any options when you do a disc copy. I'll try to burn from WMA to CDA format and see if it does any better. I think my unit is a little off anyway 'cause it had a "digital" skip sometimes even with brand new storebought discs.

 

Mine started doing the digital skip and spitting out some store bought discs, and CDA made discs. They played fine for a while, but then one day it wouldn't play it anymore. I just haven't taken the time to go to the dealer with it yet. I think this is unacceptable from something that should just work. If it required specific CD burning processes, I would expect it to be covered in the manual which it is not.

 

Yeah, mine does the same thing sometimes. I'll probably try to take it in next week and leave the HU with them to have it analyzed. It does the same thing yours does.