Hi, new on here, had my '57 Octavia vRS TDI for a week now - great car!

I burnt an MP3 cd the other day with windows media player (as a data CD), it has put the tracks in Artist - albums in nested files and some folders have a further two folders in them i.e Artist A - Album X & Album Y.

When I come to playback and navigate folders, It only plays so many Artists/songs from the CD, and I do not appear to be able to 'drill down' to further folders.

For example I have Artist A Album B - Disc 1 and Disc 2, I can play disc 1, but cannot even see disc 2!

Some artists may only have 1 album / song, and it doesn't even register them.

Any ideas please? I have tried searching the forum, but with no luck on this particular subject.

Thanks in advance.

Considering that you're only writing to a 700mb CD then it's a lot of effort you're going to to organise the files!

Why not try just putting each album in the root dir and testing from there - writing as a data cd is correct.

Could it be that you've used a CDRW (or CD) and not finalised it?

Another solution could be to write at a slower speed - if that works then move the speed up until you can no longer read the discs properly and then back off a speed setting.

Thanks for the reply, I will try what you suggest.

Considering that you're only writing to a 700mb CD then it's a lot of effort you're going to to organise the files!

Why not try just putting each album in the root dir and testing from there - writing as a data cd is correct.

Could it be that you've used a CDRW (or CD) and not finalised it?

Another solution could be to write at a slower speed - if that works then move the speed up until you can no longer read the discs properly and then back off a speed setting.

I have my files in albums, so I am using a two layer system. Each folder is an album, and within it each song is a file (starting each track name with a number so that they play in the right order). I drag and drop folders onto a CDRW, write it in Windows media player, and it plays on the Stream head, and every other head I have tried it on. This system also works with USB memory sticks, and on my non-Apple MP3 player, so it is worth the effort for me.

My experience is that the Apple etc folder format of artist / album / track just gets older head units confused, but some of the new range of Alpine heads can cope with it.

David

I have my files in albums, so I am using a two layer system. Each folder is an album, and within it each song is a file (starting each track name with a number so that they play in the right order). I drag and drop folders onto a CDRW, write it in Windows media player, and it plays on the Stream head, and every other head I have tried it on. This system also works with USB memory sticks, and on my non-Apple MP3 player, so it is worth the effort for me.

My experience is that the Apple etc folder format of artist / album / track just gets older head units confused, but some of the new range of Alpine heads can cope with it.

David

Thanks David,

Just so I'm clear (I am a bit thick) you have;

Artist (folder)

Album (folder within Artist Folder)

Track (File within Album Folder)?

Regards

Carl

Thanks David,

Just so I'm clear (I am a bit thick) you have;

Artist (folder)

Album (folder within Artist Folder)

Track (File within Album Folder)?

Regards

Carl

Carl,

That three layer system (folder / folder / file) is what my MP3 player started with, and nothing recognised it apart form a couple of new design Alpine units. It was only when I moved to a two layer system (folder / file) - Albums containing song files - that head units started to work for me, with CDs, USBs and my MP3 player now working fine.

David

Carl,

That three layer system (folder / folder / file) is what my MP3 player started with, and nothing recognised it apart form a couple of new design Alpine units. It was only when I moved to a two layer system (folder / file) - Albums containing song files - that head units started to work for me, with CDs, USBs and my MP3 player now working fine.

David

Thanks David, first time I've used MP3 discs, used a usb in my old car.

Thanks again

carl