edv

The stock Bose head unit plays standard Audio-CDs (that you buy in the store) with no problem.
If I burn an Audio-CD compilation on my PC it will NOT play in the Bose head unit, even though it plays on the old (1990 vintage) home stereo and/or Discman.
Has anyone successfully burned Audio-CDs that play in the stock FD unit, and if so, were there any special considerations?
TIA

scratchjunkie

i only play burned cds in my car.

r0t0r-rooter

here are a few tips that might help:
1) burn it at a lower speed
2) use some of the "better" brands out there. Avoid Maxell, Memorex, or any house brand such as compusa or no-name ones
3) don't let the stereo get too hot (use the cd player for too long or have the heater going for long)

Mahjik

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https://www.rx7club.com/forum/showth...&highlight=mp3

grinn253

I'm also successful at playing burned CDs in the stock Bose unit. However my Bose CD player is now on its 'death bed,' in such a way that at times the player needs warming up to play CDs or else there is static...nowadays even after warming up it just skips a multitude of times during playback - on both oem CDs and burned Cds.

Laters!
Edgardo

edv

Thanks for the info and the link.
Sheesh...I was doing all my searches in the 3rd gen forum without realizing there was an audio forum.
Thanks again.

ttb

i play burnt CD fine in the bose player. i've used all brands, some very cheap. the one thing you want to avoid is getting the rewrittables. just get the regular CD-R, not the CD-RW.

ironically, my 2000 accord wouldn't play the same CD...guess that's why the FD was 40k back in 93.

White94RX

Mine usually plays them, but was kinda selective sometimes. Then I used one of those Laser Lens Cleaner discs and now it plays all of my burned CD's. I have about 50 burned discs and 3 real CD's.

I always had good luck with Memorex though. They almost always played

T88NosRx7

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before i took my stock unit out, it was having a hard time reading real cds and read burned cds like a charm.

rxtasy3

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Some stock players can't read mp3 encoded CD's. If u have a player that will read it one time and then wont another, I have found that even my comp cd-rom will have trouble reading a CD if it's covered with finger prints. Try cleaning it, it might help. And like a previous post said, only use CD-R's for music CD's.

edv

Thanks all.
I've been burning at slowest possible speeds, but using bargain basement CD-Rs.
I will definitely do the lens cleaner, then if needed burn to a higher quality CD-R.
With about 10,000 songs at around 60GB, it's a shame not being able to burn compilations for driving...

Overtaker

clean your lens often
and it's not just the matter of the speed of burning
I think you also need to correct burning software

I'm using Roxio easy CD creator
it works pretty fine, skips here and there during bumpy roads

But Clone CD works better, the only problem is Clone CD works by copying a clone of the original CD to CD-R
so you have to have / borrow the original CD

hope that helps

7-sins

The Bose system is hurt man, just get a new head unit. Cheap one for like 100$ or less. My stock CD player played burned cds... (burned with Nero) but it stopped playing cds all together so it was replaced.

InsaneGideon

I have a Kenwood changer in my beater BMW. Only reads cheap-o CDR's when it's cold out (50 deg in Caifornia ). However it always reads the dark colored CDRs. That is, the kind where the writing surface is colored black, dark blue, or purple.

It seems counter-intuitive, but the lasers are self-calibrating (within limits), and only care of differences between the reflectance of burned pits & flats. It may be because the colored bottom CDRs generally are higher priced and are more likely to have better dyes.

-IG