Howdy,

I would like to burn my favorite MP3's to a disk and play them in my Sport Fit stock stereo. I tried an MP3 disc but the CD player could not load it. I suspect the reason was because the disc was CD-R but the player wants CD+R.

Can anyone offer advice to get a disc full of MP3s going in my Fit? Is there a special encoding that I need to use for the Fit CD player?

Thanks

 

i used to use CD-R discs. they worked fine. are you putting them on the CD correctly?

 

I used Roxio to make an MP3 CD and it worked fine. Not all the song info shows up correctly but it plays.

 

Theres no such thing as a "cd+r" only "cd-r", and I believe the disc you make must be finalized. Assuming you burned the disc using the burning feature integrated into windows the default is not to finalize. Try getting something like nero or roxio and burning a finalized data cd loaded with all the mp3's you want.

 

Yes they must be finalized, but some brands just won't play in some radios. It is not a clear cut between cheap and expensive kind. Some cheap ones work great and some expensive ones do not and vice versa.
I am using Google brand with great results. MP3's and WM. I burn them in artist folder since stock sport radio allows it.
Try burning the same set of songs on multiple brands of disc you can get your hands on laying around your house and ask your friends for some.
Eventualy you will find what works best for you with the best compromise between quality and cost.
It would be great if you guys would post what worked for you and what did not. It would be a great help for some members runing into problems.

 

Thanks for all the input people, great to be on this board.

I'll burn a CD again using a program other than regular Windows XP copy to CD and see what happens.

 

I have no issues either;
however in the past I found some of the cheapo brands of burnable CD's were really crappy and caused me all sorts of headaches.

lol you arn't using a DVD-R are you?

 

sometimes if the cd edges are not smooth the player cannot read it
try going around the edges a few times with a wooden pencil
hope you get it working

 

never heard of that one hah

 

I use Nero to burn my mp3s and they r not finalized, maybe try using a higher quality CD?

ps. it does take 10-15 seconds for the cd layer to "read" the CD when you first put it in also...

 

Hopefully he isn't burning to DVD-R and he is thinking of DVD+R.... when he should be using simple CD-Rs....

 

Does the base Fit stereo play mp3 cds? I've tried two old mp3 cds and they didn't work. I thought maybe it was the cds but reading the owners manual it gives me the impression the base unit might not play mp3s.

 

No, the base Fit does not play mp3's but it will play cda files on a cd-r.

 

go to Download.com and type in "deepburner". download the deepburner free version.

when you burn the CD, just burn it as a data disc with no multisession. just drag and drop the songs/folders of songs you want into the queue and it will burn them.

i've done this with about 40 CDs and haven't had a problem with playing them on the Fit Sport's CD player. you can even mix up mp3s and wmas and the system can recognize each different one.

 

Can someone post pics of the base stereo and the sport one so I can compare them to the UK spec cause it changed when they facelifted the car last year!

 

I know on my old computer on nero i could set it up as a data file and add music and it put it into mp3 form it played on my cd players at home but that was a few years ago.

 

Here ya go homeboy. Base n sport have the same stereo except the sport can play mp3's and has an auxiliary port. There is a DIY on how to install an AUX port on the base models floating around on the forum.

 

nice one, mines different to that but the facelift models over here looks the same, will have to get on fleabay an see what I can pickup!!