I want to change the factory standard stereo in my 2001 Octavia Classic. I have had problems in the past with car stereos not handling CDR disks well, so I am looking for one that people have experience with, and know will play them properly, or better still is there such a thing as a MP3 stereo that takes memory cards rather than CDs?

Blaupunkt Los Angeles takes SD cards.

Pioneer units seem to cope with CDR disks, and the rewriteables as well. Mine plays WMA and MP3

Blaupunkt Los Angeles takes SD cards.

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I had a Sony, then a Clarion CD stereo in the Favorit. They both played CDR disks after a fashion. The Clarion would play the first half of the disk just fine, but would produce error messages on later tracks. The Sony played the disk all the way through if freshly inserted, but if you turn it off and then later back on it could not read the disk untill ejected and reloaded.

Any idea of the price and where to get the Blaupunkt Los Angeles?

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I had a Sony' date=' then a Clarion CD stereo in the Favorit. They both played CDR disks after a fashion. The Clarion would play the first half of the disk just fine, but would produce error messages on later tracks. The Sony played the disk all the way through if freshly inserted, but if you turn it off and then later back on it could not read the disk untill ejected and reloaded.

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id imagine thats more to do with the disk then the unit....or the software that has burnt the disk... were you using the same disks on both units ??

Joel

My sony plays MP3 cds quite happily.

Only ones it never liked were some transparent purple CDs I tried.

id imagine thats more to do with the disk then the unit....or the software that has burnt the disk... were you using the same disks on both units ??

Joel

Been different brands of disk (but always branded disks), some written on a PC at work using Roxio and some wriiten at home using Nero. It just seems to me that car cd players have weaker lasers or some such and can not cope well with the CDR media?? Makes me a bit reluctant to spend out on another one, as I am fussy about my music, and rarely can be bothered with more than 1 or 2 tracks on a given album, so I prefer to make my own complilations up either copied of original CDs or downloaded.

My sony plays MP3 cds quite happily.

Only ones it never liked were some transparent purple CDs I tried.

My Sony was a basic one, didn't support MP3s so the disks are audio CD format.