Euro 6 CD-Stacker query

[aaronng]

Waste that $0.30 and burn on CD-R to test!

[MichaelW]

RW's wont work on any factory headunit AFAIK

My old WRX (2001) played CDRW no issue.

[xiang]

there was a thread about this before wasnt there?
but cd-rw & cd-r's work find on mine.

[EuroDude]

This was that thread I think

On my Euro's 6CD HU, both CD-R and CD-RW play flawlessly.

CD-R is TDK mostly.
CD-RW is TDK too.

Burnt on a desktop at 32x using an LG DVD-RAM drive.


ps. For what its worth, I used to get really bad CD-R playback on my 3yr old Sony HU when I burnt the CD-R's on a laptop. But the Desktop LG and Sony/Lite-On DVDRW+CDRW drive(s) always burnt perfect discs.

[Peekay34]

I stopped using TDK a long time ago. My TDK discs from 4 years back don't play anymore. The Kodaks from the same time are still good. I use Ricoh now, they are fairly thin, and comparing now, it is thinner than the TDK.

I read an article the other day that said the average lifetime of burnt cds is 2 years...... (home burnt).

[aaronng]

I read an article the other day that said the average lifetime of burnt cds is 2 years...... (home burnt).

Yeah, but they take a survey where people use cheap made in china discs.... The Kodak gold discs that i have are 8 years old now and still work. Too bad they used to cost $1 each!!!!

[LXRY]

i use tdk and ritek's have not put in an original disc in yet. no problems with mine.....only 11,000klm old though

[Hoyle]

The Renault I had until last week would play CD-R's and CD-RW's fine, but it wouldn't play copy-protected original CDs. The only way to play all the Sony and EMI CDs that were "copy-protected" was to make a copy of them. The copied disc always played fine.

So now for all my CD collection I have copies for the car and the originals just stay on the shelf at home. No problems playing any in the Euro, although the cheap discs I use tend to scratch pretty easily and then they start to skip tracks and jump. Haven't tried a CD-RW but seems that they work fine.

As far as the satnav luxury goes, there is no way that it will play MP3 discs. Personally I would have thought that all cars sold in 2006 should include MP3 playback, but I guess you can't have everything.

[falco]

I have 6 CD-RWs in my 03 Euro stacker and never had a problem.
Media is TDK CDRW High Speed

[EuroDude]

Remember that its the CD writer as well that determines car cd player compatibility.

Ive burnt some TDK CD-R's with a crappy CD burner and it would skip and pause in the car. I also burnt onto some crappy laser CD's with a good LG CD burner and had no problems