I have an '05 with the mp3 audiophile system. It plays regular CD's just fine. Years ago, I converted the majority of my CD's to mp3 format so that I could listen to them on my computer. Today, I got around to burning a disc with about 650 MB of mp3 music for the truck. No dice -- it said "Bad Disc" and spit it out.

My failed attempt was with folders, so I tried a second time with no folders, just song tracts. Same error. I did a little online researching and saw where my bitrate might be too high. I downloaded an Alt MP3 Bitrate Converter and changed my bitrate to 160 kbps on one of the albums for that disc. SUCCESS! That album played just fine.

I then spent a great deal of time converting the bitrate on the rest of the songs, and burned a complete CD with folders. FAILED BIG TIME! I then burned another CD with no folders, and another fail! I then backed the content down from 650 MB to 550 MB, as I'd read somewhere that sometimes the system chokes on discs larger than 600 MB. Again, it spit the CD out.

Any suggestions before I take an M16 to it?

 

Tonight I burned a copy using Windows Media Player set to the slowest setting. I inserted it a couple of times in the disc 1 slot, and it tried reading it each time, then kicked it out as a bad disc. On about the third attempt, it took it and played it.

I then burned another disc and inserted it into the disc 2 slot. It immediately started to play, then started skipping after a few seconds. I switched around to various folders on that disc, and it finally kicked it out as a bad disc. I then went back to the first disc, and it wouldn't play and kicked it out. After numerous attempts, I got it to read again.

Is it the player or the discs themselves? The discs are brand new, silver Fugifilm brand that have been sitting in their sealed spindle in my closet since I bought them a few years ago. I have other non-mp3 recordings on the same brand of discs, and they play just fine in my truck. It's just the mp3 versions that are causing me grief.

 

I had similar issues with mp3s, if you use an older computer, windows xp not windows 7 it works better if you have windows 7 you can use another program like nero and it will work fine.

 

...Ipod...Cable... Problem solved