Homemade music CD's in car

[92 white 0650]

Anyone have a problem playing a CD you burned (using your own legal music) in a car CD? I have had no problem playing my own CD's in at least 3 vehicles; 2000 Honda Prelude, 2000 Roadtrek RV and 2001 Subaru Outback. But recently I started driving my mother-in-law's 1999 Honda Accord (to sell it for her) and found a long (1:30 to over 5 minutes) delay in having my homemade CDs start playing. The player immediately tracks and plays a commercial CD just fine, but has great difficulty getting the homemade CD's to start. Once they start, they play and sound fine; until you try to jump to another track; then they start the long delay process all over again.

What could be different about a homemade CD vs a commercial one that makes a CD player so finicky?

Anyone think this might be fixable?

 

[quack]

older cd players don't like CD-r's even some new ones. I don't know the tech but had similar issues on various radios, even my new jvc (3 years old) sometimes doesn't play some cd-r's. It would be like 2 minutes some times before music starts or it would spit it back out. I've found certain brand CD-rs work better than others in older decks. (compusa brand were worthless) Also burning the CD's at a lower burn speed helped.

 

[White92]

My last car was a 99 Accord with a factory CD player. It started to do that and eventually all cd's stopped playing. I thought it was just that unit going bad so I swapped it for a different from another car. It eventually did the same thing. I could never figure it out so I just stopped listening to cd's in that car. I eventually sold the car and so it's not my problem anymore. :smile:

 

[0ctan3]

I've found certain brand CD-rs work better than others in older decks. Also burning the CD's at a lower burn speed helped.

-Make sure it's a CD-R, not RW

-Definitely try a quality brand of CD at a slower speed (i.e. Imation, TDK, Sony)

-Never had any trouble with the nsx changer playing CD-R's, which is pretty surprising considering it's age!

 

[Ski_Banker]

Sounds like a classic case of having a defective mother-in-law. Check to see if there's a warranty.

 

[Ryanmcd2]

burn at the slowest speed you can. That fixed my problems.

 

[Daedalus]

My '90 sedan had the same problem with one brand of CD-Rs, I forget which. I switched to TDKs and it never had a problem after. I've read that the more reflective discs perform better in the older players.

 

[Searchin4acoupe]

burn at the slowest speed you can. That fixed my problems.

+1 on this. 6x to 8x, max.

 

[White92]

Sounds like a classic case of having a defective mother-in-law. Check to see if there's a warranty.

Good luck with that. I tried to lemon law mine.

 

[92 white 0650]

Re: The easy fix

Thanks for the help guys. I tried burning some on the slowest speed and that was no better.

I think the easy fix would be to just replace the whole stereo. Best Buy says $200 including install to get something better than OEM and get all formats, MP3 etc.

I've wasted $200 in time just thinking about this.

 

[flaminio]

My CD changer busted completely about three years back, and I replaced it with the Alpine CHA-S634. It's a great player, and with the right cables completely compatible with the stock head unit (maintaining a stock appearance is very important to me). Plus, it plays all my burned and MP3 discs flawlessly. Nowadays, many people are going for iPod interfaces, but I like the old-schoolness of the CDs. For about $250 total, it's a great upgrade.

 

[H-carWizKid]

Anyone have a problem playing a CD you burned (using your own legal music) in a car CD? I have had no problem playing my own CD's in at least 3 vehicles; 2000 Honda Prelude, 2000 Roadtrek RV and 2001 Subaru Outback. But recently I started driving my mother-in-law's 1999 Honda Accord (to sell it for her) and found a long (1:30 to over 5 minutes) delay in having my homemade CDs start playing. The player immediately tracks and plays a commercial CD just fine, but has great difficulty getting the homemade CD's to start. Once they start, they play and sound fine; until you try to jump to another track; then they start the long delay process all over again.

What could be different about a homemade CD vs a commercial one that makes a CD player so finicky?

Anyone think this might be fixable?

My 99 Accord wouldn't play burned CDs either. I tried everything I could think of- burn speed, CD type ect ect. the car played regular CDs just fine, but wouldn't accept burned CDs at all. I didn't want to replace the unit because I had an EXV6 model with the stereo controls on the steering wheel.

Ultimately I bought an Ipod adapter that connected to the CD changer control on the factory stereo. I could control the Ipod with the factory head unit, and steering wheel controls.

Phil

 

[Big_D]

My 99 Accord wouldn't play burned CDs either. I tried everything I could think of- burn speed, CD type ect ect. the car played regular CDs just fine, but wouldn't accept burned CDs at all. I didn't want to replace the unit because I had an EXV6 model with the stereo controls on the steering wheel.

Ultimately I bought an Ipod adapter that connected to the CD changer control on the factory stereo. I could control the Ipod with the factory head unit, and steering wheel controls.

Phil

+1 CDs are a thing of the past, MP3 players with an adapter interface is the way to go. For the price of a new deck, you can get an 80 gig IPOD and for a little more an adapter to connect it to. That way you can take your music wherever you go and don't have to store CDs anymore.

 

[Ibn Rushd]

My TL has an issue with Maxwell CDs as well as a few other brands...it plays sometimes but chews them if you try to take them out...try different brands, usually one works.