Good CD burning software for car CD players...

I've been reading around (including an HP review posted today) that if you burn a music CD for a car CD player, it will most likely skip...so I tried it today and just as expected it skipped in my car.

Are there any tips/tricks I can try to avoid the skipping...or any good software (preferably free) that I can use to try and work around this?

Thanks in advance.

 

I have the same problem with a lot of the CDs I burn. They play fine in my car, but when I play them in other cars (there are two cars in particular that are picky), they skip.

So far, the only thing that I've come up with is messing around with different discs. I used some TDK and they skipped in those two cars but worked in mine. I tried some Memorex and they work in all. I've just been using those. It isn't often that I need to play the CDs in a different car, but I want to be able to for those rare occasions.

I use the latest version of Roxio to burn CDs (not a free solution), and it seems to work fine. I'm not a fan of the Roxio Suite, but my brother said that he tried the new Nero and it resulted in nonfunctional discs.

You could try using WMP or iTunes. I have also heard of some popular CD burning apps that are free, but I have neither tried nor plan on trying them.

Good luck. I'm sorry that I couldn't have been more a help.

 

It could be what type of disc you use. I can't use a CD-RW with my Pioneer DEH-7500MP headunit because the heat build up. Everything else is fine. What format are you buring with? It is just .cda files or are you buring them as data files? .mp3/.wma works better with my head unit than cda because it loads so many seconds of buffer before it plays.

 

Try slowing the speed some that will help keep the error rate down and will only add a minute or so to your burn times. CDBurnerXP is free and works good for the basics. Most newer car stereos should be good.

 

using multiple burners, car CD players, and burning programs, I have never run across a CD-R burned as an audio CD that would not play perfectly.

 

I've never had any problems with this.

You guys should try to find out which media records best in your burner and use that and also burn at a really slow rate.

I burn music cds at 8x.

Cheers,
Mike

 

I just use Nero and never have any problems playing burned cds with, I only have a problem in my Sentra. Stay away from TDK disks though. My burners always have problems with those blanks.

Interestingly enough... heres a dumb question while we're at it. My mom's car has a CD changer program thats says 'Do not use CD-Rs in this device for risk of damage." What's up with that? ;

 

i've burned so many using nero and sonic, on aopen CD-Rs, all are OK. but sometimes they do skip, sometimes they dont. your cd player might be dirty.

 

I agree - I burn both 'regular' CD's and MP3's using Nero 6.x and have not run into a skipping issue (evetually the CD's get scratched by certain teenagers but that is another story). One of my vehicles has a stock CD player , the other I out in a cd/ mp3 player (I love the 180 or so songs per CD - CD changer hahaha not me)

I like the slow down the burn speed and I also ensure I use verification after the burn (some fail here but it a low percentage < 5) I usually use 'data/music' cd's these are a little more expensive , but I have had excellent results.

Memorex (black data) / Verabtim and depsite what others say I have success with TDK (from Costco)

 

Usually it is the older models that don't like burned CDs. The newer ones are fine.

 

I actually purchased TDK CDs from Costco as well, so perhaps that might be the problem.

I guess I'll first try burning at a slower speed (I usually have it at the fastest I think) on the Sonic software (w/ my computer). As for the CD player/car, it's a 2005 Toyota Camry so I don't think the CD player in that is too outdated (hopefully!)

Anyways thanks for your posts guys...really appreciate it!

 

I have had some REALLY cheap CDrs that a friend bought flake apart before, if that happened inside a CD player it would be hard to clean. Most likely they are just trying to cover their butts though.

Stepping down a step or 2 on the burn speed can help quality, though dropping all the way to 8x seems rather excessive. Obviously, make sure your media supports the speed you are trying to burn at - most should there days, but there might be a few super cheap ones that are slower.