mp3 player problems

[flagmunkey]

so i just got my 2007 yaris on wednesday (haray, i love the car.. black manual hatchback) and i was trying to test out the mp3 capabilities on the cd player. so i burnt a cd with mp3s on it all in folders and what not (except one album i put in the root). well the player decided to play 3 albums (One of which was in the root folder). i noticed that one of the albums not played (of the 5 that werent) was .m4a by accident and one had files that werent mp3s (just ones stuck in there by accident). think that could influence the way the cd plays? should i just stick everything in the root folder? i read in the manual that i can have up to 277(ish) files or so and i def didnt go over that amount.

im using NTI CD maker gold. .. maybe i should switch eh?

thanks!

[AlphaFox]

dont put anything on the root; make folders off the root, one for each album. works for me.

[static808]

dont put anything on the root; make folders off the root, one for each album. works for me.

+1

[flagmunkey]

nope didn't fix it. didnt have any stray files either. only played one folder.

[Ah Yum]

Check your file names. This deck doesn't cope well with non-ASCII characters in file names. Erratic file type is fine - I keep .jpg as album covers and .txt as track index just fine so .m4a shouldn't affect anything.

[slvryaris]

When you go into your burning program burn as data. What I do is some of the songs are in My Music as folders which are mostly complete cd's and then I just have songs I have downloaded. When you are in your burning program click add data and then select the whole folder if you are wanting a whole cd. The cd player in you car will see if it has seperate folders on the cd or if you just have a bunch of songs. I have a bunch of cd's on my computer then if I put the whole folder on there you can hit the foler button and change folders.

If you have a full cd on there that has 12 songs there can be one folder with them on there. It just depends how you set it up when you burn it.

[whoisandy]

I use Nero and burn as a data CD. Put all my music in their folders off the root directory and haven't had a problem. It plays both my CD-Rs and -RWs which I was happy to discover.

Only thing I have found is that it doesn't like multisession discs. In my old car, I had a nice JVC deck and I would just put a few MP3s on a CD at a time, leave the session open so I could burn stuff later, filling up the disc as I pleased. With my Yaris now, it only reads the first session, none after that. If anyone has had success with multisession, let me know. It'd be cool if it could work but it's not too big of a deal.

[IllusionX]

this fujitsuten deck doesn't have any problems reading non-ASCII characters. most of my music are written in chinese names...

[flagmunkey]

well i found that if i burn directly to the root folder in Itunes as an mp3 cd it'll do it. i just have to scroll through all of the songs if i want to select a certain album.. which i can live with...

[flint_mica_manual]

No. It's broken. Take it back to the dealership. After I got mine replaced, It worked perfectly across all bit rates and file structures. Don't give yourself a head ache. .. . see my thread below. . .print it out if you must, take it to the dealer and demand a new head unit.

http://www.yarisworld.com/forums/showthread.php?t=4629

[flint_mica_manual]

No. It's broken. Take it back to the dealership. After I got mine replaced, It worked perfectly across all bit rates and file structures. Don't give yourself a head ache. .. . see my thread below. . .print it out if you must, take it to the dealer and demand a new head unit.

http://www.yarisworld.com/forums/showthread.php?t=4629

Really, don't jack with it. It has nothing to do with file structure, what type of CDs you have, what burning software you use. . . .etc. . . they [the dealership] will try all sorts of bizarre things to get you to drop your claim.

Bring your CD with you, and tell them to try it out in lot cars -- It will likely work.

[Nigal]

Hell I don't even know how to make a cd with mp3's on it. I just plug in my player. :(

[Bin]

Just picked up my 2007 Yaris Hatchback. Does anyone know why, after i shut off the car and then restart it, the mp3 track starts from the beginning? Isn't it supposed to start from where it was before the car was shut off? I didn't turn off the power to the stereo first - i just shut off the car.