can anyone help me out on this... id try to find out for myself, but my car's still in the shop...

my headunit (pioneer) is a cd/mp3 player, but when u put a cd in, if u immediately press the back button, it'll go to the "max" track #, 99. so im pretty sure it wont display a track 100 or greater

but w/ mp3s, you can definetly fit more than 99 tracks on a cd...so my question is, what happens to the tracks after 99? would the cd player still play them? if so, then what would the headunit display? 01 for track 100? 02 for track 101, etc, and onwards?

and if that's the case, wouldn't that throw off the numbering scheme, so the only way to play the "real" track 1 would be to take out the cd and put it back in again?

also, if it can play tracks after 99, can you skip tracks after that point? (ie, go from track 102 to say...track 107?) or do you just have to listen to the entire song to go to the next track?
(this is assuming that after it hits track 99, trying to skip to the next track might reset it to the real track 01...)

anyone know? (hope this made any sense...)

 

My old JVC played all the MP3's on a CD (300 or so). I got tired of that so I got a 20 Gig Jukebox and just use the Aux in now.

 

I can't help you with your player... mine shows directory names like if you were browsing on a computer, it doesn't list them by number.

But... it would seem silly that a deck made to play mp3s would have a limit of 99. I think you'll probably be ok.

 

Mine has an LCD that can display up to Track 999.

 

I'll let you know what mine does when I get it for x-mas....

 

chances r...if ur headunit is new, it'll go up to 999. mine is just around 2 yrs old... one of the first cd/mp3 headunits that came out (i believe not just 4 pioneer, but in general). so it mite be an issue just w/ the older gen units...

 

I believe the Red Book Standard (rules for formatting of CDs) has a track limit of 99 tracks. I'm sure the player can handle more than 99 MP3 tracks.

 

uh, hello.

mine was one of the first also.

kenwood excelon z919, 2nd one to be released after the aiwa.

 

<< uh, hello.

mine was one of the first also. >>

how was i supposed to know that? lol
u didnt say which one u had in ur 1st post....

 

My point was that you can't blame your 99 display on being an old unit, that is all.

 

gotcha. wasn't blamin tho, since i haven't tried it yet. i was hypothesizing.... =)