Why CD title not displaying in 2006 GS300?
04-30-07, 08:23 PM
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Why music CD album and song title not displaying in 2006 GS300?
Hello all,
Need some help with understanding why my CD changer does not display the album & song title when selecting title from the on screen menu? I have 2006 GS 300 with Nav.
Is there a special type of music CD that will display the info on the screen?
It's driving me nuts!!!
Need some help with understanding why my CD changer does not display the album & song title when selecting title from the on screen menu? I have 2006 GS 300 with Nav.
Is there a special type of music CD that will display the info on the screen?
It's driving me nuts!!!
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05-02-07, 10:14 AM
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This worked for me and you may get some ideas from my experience. BTW, I know you have a 2006 GS 300 so see my last paragraph first.
Burning music CDs: I have a 2007 ES350 with the Mark Levinson (ML) audio system and have experimented with burning music to both DVDs and CDs. Even though you can get 600 plus songs on a single DVD I personally do not like music DVDs. This is because they are recorded as if they were a Video File (a movie) and I could not see the song titles as they played and I had no other control over them. It may be somewhere but I couldn't even get DVD recorded songs to play in a random sequence like you can with CDs.
I now burn my music on CDs in the MP3 format. Depending on the MP3 file sizes it appears that you can get about 250 songs per CD. I have already tested a CD with 204 songs on it and it plays perfectly. That means with a six-disk CD changer I can have 1,500 songs in my ML Audio system. You can choose to play the songs sequentially, random, or repeat. When the car is moving the song title that is playing is shown on the screen.
On the other hand, when the car is NOT moving I can view and scroll through the entire list of song titles on the CD because you can access the FOLDERS and FILES menu, which is grayed out when the car is moving.
THIS IS MY EXPERIENCE: I could not get Windows Media Player 11 to work with the Lexus Audio system because it wants to use the .M3U playback format. I found buried at the end of a sentence somewhere in the Lexus manual that .M3U playback will NOT work. NOTE: the playback format for songs is different from the MP3 recording format for the songs.
I used Sonic System’s Roxio Easy Media Creator 9 to burn a music CD with 204 songs on it and it both plays and shows each song's title as it plays even when driving.
Here's how I did it. Start Roxio, click on AUDIO, choose MUSIC DISK CREATOR, choose MP3/WMA disk, click FILE (upper left), click IMPORT AUDIO in the drop down menu, in the left pane of the two panes that just appeared click on My Computer to get to your C: drive and find you music files (songs) you want to burn, choose the songs you want to burn by clicking on them (they change color), click on ADD (middle right of screen).
If you want to edit any song's title, before burning the CD, click on that specific song and then click on Edit Audio Tags.
Then choose PROJECT SETTINGS. Here you name your disk, choose convert all to: MP3 (good quality), uncheck .M3U and leave only .PLS and .WPL playback formats checked, for file use Joliet and press okay to return to the previous screen.
Next, look at bottom left of the screen to sure make you have an 80 Min (703 MB) CD in the CD burner. Now click on BURN (right middle of screen). You probably should not use a rewritable CD-R.
This worked very well for me!
One other point, where I chose the MP3 format in the above write up you can instead choose the WAV format. The WAV format will play on ANY CD player. See the paragraph that starts with "Then choose PROJECT SETTINGS." When using the WAV format you will only be able to get about 28 (+ or -) songs per CD. It is a non compresed format.
Burning music CDs: I have a 2007 ES350 with the Mark Levinson (ML) audio system and have experimented with burning music to both DVDs and CDs. Even though you can get 600 plus songs on a single DVD I personally do not like music DVDs. This is because they are recorded as if they were a Video File (a movie) and I could not see the song titles as they played and I had no other control over them. It may be somewhere but I couldn't even get DVD recorded songs to play in a random sequence like you can with CDs.
I now burn my music on CDs in the MP3 format. Depending on the MP3 file sizes it appears that you can get about 250 songs per CD. I have already tested a CD with 204 songs on it and it plays perfectly. That means with a six-disk CD changer I can have 1,500 songs in my ML Audio system. You can choose to play the songs sequentially, random, or repeat. When the car is moving the song title that is playing is shown on the screen.
On the other hand, when the car is NOT moving I can view and scroll through the entire list of song titles on the CD because you can access the FOLDERS and FILES menu, which is grayed out when the car is moving.
THIS IS MY EXPERIENCE: I could not get Windows Media Player 11 to work with the Lexus Audio system because it wants to use the .M3U playback format. I found buried at the end of a sentence somewhere in the Lexus manual that .M3U playback will NOT work. NOTE: the playback format for songs is different from the MP3 recording format for the songs.
I used Sonic System’s Roxio Easy Media Creator 9 to burn a music CD with 204 songs on it and it both plays and shows each song's title as it plays even when driving.
Here's how I did it. Start Roxio, click on AUDIO, choose MUSIC DISK CREATOR, choose MP3/WMA disk, click FILE (upper left), click IMPORT AUDIO in the drop down menu, in the left pane of the two panes that just appeared click on My Computer to get to your C: drive and find you music files (songs) you want to burn, choose the songs you want to burn by clicking on them (they change color), click on ADD (middle right of screen).
If you want to edit any song's title, before burning the CD, click on that specific song and then click on Edit Audio Tags.
Then choose PROJECT SETTINGS. Here you name your disk, choose convert all to: MP3 (good quality), uncheck .M3U and leave only .PLS and .WPL playback formats checked, for file use Joliet and press okay to return to the previous screen.
Next, look at bottom left of the screen to sure make you have an 80 Min (703 MB) CD in the CD burner. Now click on BURN (right middle of screen). You probably should not use a rewritable CD-R.
This worked very well for me!
One other point, where I chose the MP3 format in the above write up you can instead choose the WAV format. The WAV format will play on ANY CD player. See the paragraph that starts with "Then choose PROJECT SETTINGS." When using the WAV format you will only be able to get about 28 (+ or -) songs per CD. It is a non compresed format.
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05-02-07, 07:13 PM
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Jerfitz,
Thank you for the helpful hints. I will try to burn a CD with MP3 format via iTune and see if I get to see the titles. However, I was hoping to find out why when using retail store bought music CDs the audio system do not display the info. My understanding that the songs and album information is burned into the CD. am I expecting too much from a 2006 audio system?
Thank you again for taking the time to answer my questions.
Thank you for the helpful hints. I will try to burn a CD with MP3 format via iTune and see if I get to see the titles. However, I was hoping to find out why when using retail store bought music CDs the audio system do not display the info. My understanding that the songs and album information is burned into the CD. am I expecting too much from a 2006 audio system?
Thank you again for taking the time to answer my questions.
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It has something to do with where they store the name on the CD...sorry I can't give you a better explanation. Out of my entire collection of original CD's only 1 displays titles properly on both my '06 and '07 GS's. The CD was Smash Hits 2006 which I got from Virgin Megastore here in Kuwait. It displays the CD title, and for each track it displays '01', '02'...etc. I'm sure if you try searching this forum you'll get more information on how you can burn audio CD's and put the title information in the right place.
To the best of my knowledge you will not be able to play MP3's without converting them to normal CD format on an '06 model.
To the best of my knowledge you will not be able to play MP3's without converting them to normal CD format on an '06 model.
05-08-07, 12:11 PM
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Song & Album information not displayed
Mystery is solved! To see the information, the music CD must support CD-TEXT format. I was using CDs with no CD-TEXT imbedded in them. When I burned a music CD-ROM using iTune, I selected the CD-TEXT option. I was able to see the song and album information when I played it on my CD changer. Thank you all for replying to my question.
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