12/22 I purchased an album through iTunes on my Mac (OS 10.4 completely
up to date). I then burned that to a CDR using iTunes. I can play
that CDR on my home stereo (DVD player), an old boombox (CD only),
and the computers. I cannot play it in my car stereo (BMW stock).
If I take that CDR and rip it on my PC using WMP to Windows Media
Format (Lossless) and then burn *that* to a CDR (identical brand)
using Nero then my car can read it just fine. This has happened with
several albums and CDRs, so it is not the media. Any ideas what's going
on? My car has always played CDRs burned from MP3s on the PC before,
so it must be something the Mac is doing that affects the car and
not the other players. The car does recognize the tracks (and
often plays #1 and #2) but won't play the entire album. Ideas? --dim
\_ BMWs are common these days. Have you tried playing them on
other BMWs?
\_ What would be the point? It plays when burned on a PC. Why?
Isn't an audio CD an audio CD?
\_ I'm just trying to see if it's maybe your particular BMW
CD player that's just sensitive to something the Mac did.
I have both a Mac and a BMW and it plays burned CDs just
fine.
\_ Let's say it is my particular BMW. What I really want
to know is what iTunes is doing that Nero is not and
why these CDs all work in a generic boombox.
\_ Do you have Gap Between Songs set to 2 secs in iTunes? My cd
changer doesn't care what the gap is, but my car's cd won't
play cds if the gap between songs is less than 2 secs.
\_ I thought this might be the problem, too. It was 2 seconds
by default, but changing it to 0 seconds did not help. Are
you saying I should make it *larger*?
\_ 0-1 secs doesn't work for me, but 2 and 3 work. I need
to use 3 for CD-RW and 2 for CD-R. If you have Toast,
try burning a cd using that instead of iTunes to see
if the problem is only w/ iTunes. I've started burning
all my audio cds w/ Toast b/c iTunes doesn't do CD-Text
(the downside is that I've had to give up soundcheck). |
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