CD RW in Standard Sound System

[VicCop]

I use standard CDs as well as CD-R ones all the time without a worry.

Once I burnt a CD onto a CD-RW disc (a re-writable disc) and it wouldn't play. It came up with an error.

Do these CDs just not play in the standard CD player and is there a way to overcome it?

Or did I just stuff the burn process up?

[CANYONERO]

my pioneer in my ute wont play CDRW and that plays MP3 etc etc. havent tried in the stocko unit in the VY. i would say no. copy the contents onto a CD-R disc. but i dont know why they wont? anyone know?

[Dak666]

Standard head unit will not play CD-RW, thats what the manual says. Mine won't even play most CD-R's, crappy in this day and age, the standard unit should be capable of playing mp3's at least.

[andyman]

my vz plays cdrw, that was with the factory one, but they could be slightly different even though the look the same

[Astranomical]

Maybe you just got lucky, or they could've updated it sometime during VZ production.

Our VZ has a Blaupunkt Single Disc changer, which will play CD-Rs, but not CD-RWs.

[andyman]

Maybe you just got lucky, or they could've updated it sometime during VZ production.

Our VZ has a Blaupunkt Single Disc changer, which will play CD-Rs, but not CD-RWs.

hmm, ok im positive it played rw's

[sossy]

I have a Feb 05 VZ Exec and it won't play CD-RW's, however a colleague has exactly the same model except its a March 05, and it plays CD-RW's happily. There must have been a modification to the H/U about then

The CD-RW's use a different laser frequency to CD-R's which is why some CD players just won't recognise them.

Glen

[andyman]

I have a Feb 05 VZ Exec and it won't play CD-RW's, however a colleague has exactly the same model except its a March 05, and it plays CD-RW's happily. There must have been a modification to the H/U about then

The CD-RW's use a different laser frequency to CD-R's which is why some CD players just won't recognise them.

Glen

could be something in that then, does your car have the black stipes down the side and is your colleagues without them? they may have changed them in that update they had

mine is a july 05

[cpbait]

never had a problem with copied cd's in my 6disc factory headunit and in my pioneer headunit i put in, only time i had a problem was when it was scratched cd or the 6disc itself was playing up, had it not even play normal cd's saying there was an error then flick to the next disc and back and it would be ok

[Phreddy]

My Jan '05 build VZ can't play RWs, but can play CD-Rs just fine. (although I never use cheap-n-nasty media, and never burn audio CDs at high speeds)

Interesting to note that later builds seem to work OK.... Maybe there was a change made to the reader mechanism? (I've worked on many of these head units, and there doesn't seem to be any physical differences in the base unit - if there has been an update it's a subtle one...)

Cheerz!

[sossy]

could be something in that then, does your car have the black stipes down the side and is your colleagues without them? they may have changed them in that update they had

mine is a july 05

No, both cars have the black stripes

Glen