Hey , I am goin to be buying the AVIC Z1, i have searched this board but could not find one thing, how is it for playing MP3's that are burnt onto a DVD, i use Nero to burn everything, thanks ahead of time.

There are quite a few threads here about this already. Can't be done. Only from CD's

MrRedneck said:

Hey , I am goin to be buying the AVIC Z1, i have searched this board but could not find one thing, how is it for playing MP3's that are burnt onto a DVD, i use Nero to burn everything, thanks ahead of time.

I tried a DVD with over 100 MP3's on it. The Z1 played it just fine.

hey attilas, how did you burn the mp3 dvd? i also tried and had no luck, the z1 said disc cannot be read or something like that? what program did you use to burn? and did you do anything special? thanks for any help

Probably burned as a dvd audio disc. I've run a few dozen different programs burning dvds with mp3s on them and had no luck getting any of them to read on the z1 we had on display.

I think it's pretty fair to completely ignore attilas' post. It's his first post and he hasn't bothered to answer. This generally means someone "knows" something should be true but in fact is not but that doesn't stop them from fosting (false-posting).

"fosting" nice sniglet!! lol

Yeah would be nice if useless posts like this could be deleted or something.

I guess I should quit posting at 2:30 in the morning. I screwed up thinking that I had burned a DVD data disk and instead had burned a CD data disk.

Sorry to have some people have a shit fit about it.

Honest mistake.

Probably no consolation. but the CD does work just fine. The player recognizes the CD with well over 100 songs on it.

attilas said:

I guess I should quit posting at 2:30 in the morning. I screwed up thinking that I had burned a DVD data disk and instead had burned a CD data disk.

Sorry to have some people have a shit fit about it.

Honest mistake.

Probably no consolation. but the CD does work just fine. The player recognizes the CD with well over 100 songs on it.

So a data cdr works fine? what did u use to burn? does it transfer (with song titles etc) to the HD fine?

In order to transfer ANY songs from cd to the hard drive the cd MUST be burned as an AUDIO cd. That means about 20 tracks maximum.

timbo4656 said:

attilas said:

I guess I should quit posting at 2:30 in the morning. I screwed up thinking that I had burned a DVD data disk and instead had burned a CD data disk.

Sorry to have some people have a shit fit about it.

Honest mistake.

Probably no consolation. but the CD does work just fine. The player recognizes the CD with well over 100 songs on it.

So a data cdr works fine? what did u use to burn? does it transfer (with song titles etc) to the HD fine?

I used Nero to burn a CD data disk. Just dragged the files (MP3's) from my hard drive. The ID tags were read just fine. I always clean up my ID tags so that they display the correct info. The display of the unit lists the track numbers with the file names, whereas as the top of the display lists the artist & song from the ID tag.

cntrylvr79 said:

In order to transfer ANY songs from cd to the hard drive the cd MUST be burned as an AUDIO cd. That means about 20 tracks maximum.

This is true. The CD data disk can't be loaded to the hard drive, unfortunately. Perhaps a future hack?????

i had tried a few times to make an mp3 cd that would play on teh z1 and failed. I found my mistake, i was using the multisession format which wont work. i never even noticed that before because its automatically checked. I had to uncheck it. now it works fine. you can put about 8-12 albums on 1 disc. and its very easy to search from album to album , better than the ipod.