DAVE NIC
12-02-2011, 12:20 AM
Hi. My experience here might be of interest to those of you who have this MP3 single CD player model in your VW. I just bought a '57 Pearl Black Passat TDi 140 Sports saloon & she's a beauty (black heated/electric leather sports seats, front & rear sensors, heated front windscreen, auto hold, cruise, Highline multi function trip computer, front fogs, multi function steering wheel & rear window sunblind). I was chuffed that she had the single CD MP3 player as I could cram about 10 or 11 hours of music onto one data disc to play in the car instead of just the usual 70 minutes from a standard audio disc that most CD players play. The car has an i-Pod connector built in in the glovebox too but seeing I don't own any Apple gear it ain't much use.
Anyway, I duly spent a few hours ripping & burning some of my modest audio CD collection to my laptop using Windows 7 & after burning 6 MP3 CD-R discs couldn't wait to try them in the RCD 300 MP3 player in the car! However upon inserting in the CD player..... disaster........... every one of the six now CR-ROM data discs came up as 'ERROR' on the display.
I binned the 6 ASDA brand discs thinking there was a problem with them or the way I had ripped and /or burned them on the laptop. I checked that the CD player played normal audio CD's okay which it did so back to the drawing board on the laptop. Re-ripped & burned a few CD's in MP3 format again to some new VERBATIM blank discs. By chance, when I tried the MP3 CD data disc this time the RCD 300 had been on for a while so was nicely warmed up & hey presto the MP3 CD discs I created worked no problem.
I have found in my case anyway that the blank CD-R's seem susceptible to the cold & they have a tendancy not to operate in low temperatures like we have up here in Northern Scotland at the moment. As long as they are at a minimum temperature or the RCD 300 itself is at a certain temperature to warm the disk then they will play ok - I think it may have something to do with the special dyes used on blank CD-R discs. Perhaps condensation is forming on the cold CD-R disc & this is preventing the laser in the RCD 300 unit reading the disc until it has evaporated.
So if you find that your MP3 discs don't work in your RCD 300 MP3 player don't despair - it could be temperture related as well - give it another go after the unit has been on for a few minutes or the car has heated up the interior.
Hope this is of some use if you have come across this problem too.:bigok:
Anyway, I duly spent a few hours ripping & burning some of my modest audio CD collection to my laptop using Windows 7 & after burning 6 MP3 CD-R discs couldn't wait to try them in the RCD 300 MP3 player in the car! However upon inserting in the CD player..... disaster........... every one of the six now CR-ROM data discs came up as 'ERROR' on the display.
I binned the 6 ASDA brand discs thinking there was a problem with them or the way I had ripped and /or burned them on the laptop. I checked that the CD player played normal audio CD's okay which it did so back to the drawing board on the laptop. Re-ripped & burned a few CD's in MP3 format again to some new VERBATIM blank discs. By chance, when I tried the MP3 CD data disc this time the RCD 300 had been on for a while so was nicely warmed up & hey presto the MP3 CD discs I created worked no problem.
I have found in my case anyway that the blank CD-R's seem susceptible to the cold & they have a tendancy not to operate in low temperatures like we have up here in Northern Scotland at the moment. As long as they are at a minimum temperature or the RCD 300 itself is at a certain temperature to warm the disk then they will play ok - I think it may have something to do with the special dyes used on blank CD-R discs. Perhaps condensation is forming on the cold CD-R disc & this is preventing the laser in the RCD 300 unit reading the disc until it has evaporated.
So if you find that your MP3 discs don't work in your RCD 300 MP3 player don't despair - it could be temperture related as well - give it another go after the unit has been on for a few minutes or the car has heated up the interior.
Hope this is of some use if you have come across this problem too.:bigok: