Does your 95-99 Non-Bose radio play CD-Rs?

[betonthis1]

I notice my HU plays some and some it doesn't. I notice that when I record in MP3, some play fine and some don't. Thats expected being an older radio but WAV plays most of the time and then it doesn't. Not sure if it plays CD-R's or CD-RW's normally or is it a problem with my unit.

Im getting vojtazbrna's old radio friday so maybe it might work in this one. does it work for you?

[bLACk AurOrA]

mine is like that too, it plays burnt CD's but you usually cant seek past 6 or 7. at first it didnt play any but its gotten better. what i did was just play it and if i wanted to skip a song fastforward until the next song STARTED playing. not when you see the track number but when u hear actual music.

[blong579]

no probs here at all with my burt cd's they work fine. you may want to try cleaning the player or using a better brand of cd's. my cheap burt cd's last about 8 months before the last songs on the cd start messing up

[betonthis1]

blackaurora said:

mine is like that too, it plays burnt CD's but you usually cant seek past 6 or 7. at first it didnt play any but its gotten better. what i did was just play it and if i wanted to skip a song fastforward until the next song STARTED playing. not when you see the track number but when u hear actual music.

exactly. at first i burnt some and tried and it didnt work at first then i noticed it played sometimes. then it got better and better. i notice it tends to play when the car first starts but once its been on for awhile it tends to skip or give an error code. im not sure if its a heat issue but i dont know.

[betonthis1]

blong579 said:

no probs here at all with my burt cd's they work fine. you may want to try cleaning the player or using a better brand of cd's. my cheap burt cd's last about 8 months before the last songs on the cd start messing up

what year is your car?

[TheLoveThatNeverDies]

My burned CDs play fine too (all the way through). Ejecting them can be a problem however.

[blong579]

betonthis1 said:

blong579 said:

no probs here at all with my burt cd's they work fine. you may want to try cleaning the player or using a better brand of cd's. my cheap burt cd's last about 8 months before the last songs on the cd start messing up

what year is your car?

97

[vojtazbrna]

hey betonthis1, hope you'll get the radio tomorrow. i can tell you what it played for me. most of my cds are burned. All of them are CD-Rs...never tried RWs. All of them play, and mostly fine. I've had the unit for about 8 months and played cds a lot. I did get the error code twice in those 8 months. Which doesn't sound too bad to me. Hope you'll enjoy it bro.

[betonthis1]

tltnd said:

My burned CDs play fine too (all the way through). Ejecting them can be a problem however.

did you add a CD label to the burned disk? i know that can cause problems.

[betonthis1]

blong579 said:

betonthis1 said:

what year is your car?

97

oh ok so yours is just one year newer.

[betonthis1]

vojtazbrna said:

hey betonthis1, hope you'll get the radio tomorrow. i can tell you what it played for me. most of my cds are burned. All of them are CD-Rs...never tried RWs. All of them play, and mostly fine. I've had the unit for about 8 months and played cds a lot. I did get the error code twice in those 8 months. Which doesn't sound too bad to me. Hope you'll enjoy it bro.

nice, yeah hope so too. looks like its still arriving 2morrow. i got quite a few things arriving tomorrow so pretty excited. thanks a lot too for giving me the hook-up.

[TheLoveThatNeverDies]

betonthis1 said:

tltnd said:

My burned CDs play fine too (all the way through). Ejecting them can be a problem however.

did you add a CD label to the burned disk? i know that can cause problems.

I believe so.

[oldsauroraman1]

my 98 plays CD-R s just fine.

[betonthis1]

tltnd said:

betonthis1 said:

did you add a CD label to the burned disk? i know that can cause problems.

I believe so.

yeah with the sticker labels it thickens the disk and with front loading cd-players its hard to put in and eject at times.

[betonthis1]

oldsauroraman1 said:

my 98 plays CD-R s just fine.

are you able to play both MP3's and WAV's fine?

[95mushroom]

Should have waited for a Bose

My bose (12 disc) always plays burnts fine and plays WAV fine, but I doubt any will play MP3s. Even 03s don't play them.

[betonthis1]

95mushroom said:

Should have waited for a Bose

My bose (12 disc) always plays burnts fine and plays WAV fine, but I doubt any will play MP3s. Even 03s don't play them.

whats the Bose deck look like?

[omegaic]

[betonthis1]

omegaic said:

oh ok, looks exactly the same except it says Bose on the tape hood.

[betonthis1]

wait, thinking about it. i've never even seen my tape deck cover since i have a cassette stunk in there. where is that Bose emblem located on the right?

[oldsauroraman1]

Look at the pictures.

[Custom88]

believe me, you'd know it if you had the bose system or not. heh. The stock delco system is god aweful. the Bose actually sounds pretty decent, maybe I'd go as far as to say it sounds good! ( as far as stock sytems go anyways..)

[oldsauroraman1]

That's interesting. Most of the reviews I've read on the Aurora say that the Stock system was excellent and Bose just a notch above it. ?

[Mr. Javi]

Nah, the stock system is pretty bad.

[oldsauroraman1]

Ok, works great for me. You have changed yours out then?

[bLACk AurOrA]

when I first brought my car home i could have sworn it had the BOSE because it sounded so good. the bass sounded like a woofer. my fosgates dont sound much better than stock. i only replaced them because i had a blown speaker. ive driven alot of cars and my system is the best ive owned

[kobalt]

My non-bose had no problems playing cdrs. I had a cd that had 24 tracks and was over-burned to 83+ minutes and all tracks played correctly. The head unit would not play mp3s however.

[betonthis1]

custom88 said:

believe me, you'd know it if you had the bose system or not. heh. The stock delco system is god aweful. the Bose actually sounds pretty decent, maybe I'd go as far as to say it sounds good! ( as far as stock sytems go anyways..)

i would have to disagree. if i do have a stock stereo system it sounds great. 6 speaker system with great bass response as is. i however got 2 12's and an amp but the system sounded great.

[betonthis1]

oldsauroraman1 said:

Look at the pictures.

thats what i was refering to. the pics above are two different pictures. as you can see one pic is bigger but looking at it i guess it would be on the door but im not sure.

[bLACk AurOrA]

how do the subs sound hooked up to the factory CD player?