Golf GTI: the good, the bad, the weird...and appreciation thread

[Ryan_R]

I sorta liked the fact that only I could see the time when I had the RCD310 - that and the fact I got a writeen weather forecast and could see what new songs were playing in case I wanted to get them later - but I was always going to upgrade to the RNS510.

[mvw]

another strange feature (or lack of) is the inability of the CD player to display the name of the album or the nam of the track

so with 6 CDs loaded you can see "CD 1 track 5" or whatever

i can always transfer the cds to my iPod and this WILL display track and album info OK, but it kind of defeats the purpose of the CD player...

[Ryan_R]

When you rip music from CD to your iPod - the computer looks up a special ID of the CD and then downloads the names from the Internet - obviously the car can't do that. Some special CD's have 'CDTEXT' that can display limited information (if you have ever made audio CD's in Nero, etc, you probably have seen this).

Best option is to burn an MP3/WMA data CD - you can fit around 150-250 songs on a disc with all the text preserved.

[Corey_R]

another strange feature (or lack of) is the inability of the CD player to display the name of the album or the nam of the track

so with 6 CDs loaded you can see "CD 1 track 5" or whatever

i can always transfer the cds to my iPod and this WILL display track and album info OK, but it kind of defeats the purpose of the CD player...

Yeah as Ryan_R mentioned - almost no comerical CDs include track titles.

If you were to rip a CD as WAV files to your computer, then burn them back as a CD with a competent CD writing program, you'll then have opporunity to write the "CD Text". If you do that, then the car will display the Artist/Album/Track info like it does with MP3s. At least it does on my RNS510.
But if you're already doing that, you may as well burn a data CD with MP3's as Ryan_R suggested.

[elephino]

Yeah as Ryan_R mentioned - almost no comerical CDs include track titles.

If you were to rip a CD as WAV files to your computer, then burn them back as a CD with a competent CD writing program, you'll then have opporunity to write the "CD Text". If you do that, then the car will display the Artist/Album/Track info like it does with MP3s. At least it does on my RNS510.
But if you're already doing that, you may as well burn a data CD with MP3's as Ryan_R suggested.

On my last trip 3 CDs out of about 30 displayed information on the screen. All were genuine discs. 2 were reasonably new, one was approximately 8-10 years old. I'm disappointed with the CD manufacturers.

[pologti18t]

On my last trip 3 CDs out of about 30 displayed information on the screen. All were genuine discs. 2 were reasonably new, one was approximately 8-10 years old. I'm disappointed with the CD manufacturers.

LOL... get real.

[Corey_R]

I'm disappointed with the CD manufacturers.

lol... you and me, and about a billion other people!

[elephino]

LOL... get real.

Get real? Why does an 8-10 year old disc display info but one bought about a month ago not?

[pologti18t]

Get real? Why does an 8-10 year old disc display info but one bought about a month ago not?

Does it matter? That's why I said "get real" Are you going to boycott or complain to CD manufacturers about it?

[Ryan_R]

Depends on who made the disc I guess. Not many CD players display CDText so it's not a big deal for some studios/manufacturers.