Playing MP3s

[ridway]

The owner manual of my sound 20 system in my van indicates that I can possibly play mp3s that are burnt onto a CDr disk rather than straight forward audio tracks. I have tried burning a 100 or so mp3s onto a disk but it does not work in the unit, Has anyone had any success with this or am I barking up the wrong tree? If it is possible are there particular settings needed to burn the data to disk?

Rich

 

[myothercarisamerc]

Rich,

My command plays MP3s on DVD and CD. This works fine, but when I burnt the disc I used the MP3 Jukebox option. This I think give the disc some structure. Have a go!

Pete

 

[jberks]

my audio 20 won't play mp3s - but the in dash cd changes does.
I think it's down to how old it is - mines a 2004 so it must have been the changeover point (missed it on the head unit but got lucky with the changer).
I just put each album in its own directory and it plays them in alphabetical order (directory then track). I can get 130 or so tracks on the cd but the Audio 20 will only address 99 so I have to merge several tracks into 1.

 

[ridway]

Thanks for the replies.
Ive been just burning raw mp3s onto ablank cd. Maybe I should be doing the same and tucking them into parent directories? I only have the single player and its a new 2007 unit so I would have thought it should do what the hand book says?
I'll post the results it will certainly save changing disks if I can get it to work
Rich

 

[noby39]

I discovered that the book for the audio 20 system on my 56 car is somewhat misleading, and even misled the MB retailer for a while. It turned out on close reading of the book that I needed either a multi CD changer (£300 + about 3 hours fitting) or an iPod connection (£180 + 3 hours fitting). I thought initially that the reason I couldn't play MP3 files was because of the file structure, e.g. each MP3 file on the CD needed to be in a folder.