Is this par for the course when upgradng from a AVIC Z2 to a 130 BT?

My old AVIC Z2 played CD's and displayed artist and song titles. You would think the newer model 130 BT would also.

I don't think there is any way to make this happen. Anyone know anything about this?

The Z2 had a CDDB database and that is the only reason it showed titles. That is now a thing of the past with new units as the focus heads more towards non-CD based medias. There is no way to have titles on the new units unless you burn your own CDs with the titles encoded.

Thanks for the information.....guess I will have to go Ipod.

Somehow, my response got lost, so I'll try again. I assume you were talking about audio CDs? MP3's burned to a CD will display ID3 tags. The user interface/browser isn't nearly as great as the iPod UI, but it is an improvement over audio CDs, IMO. Of course, with iPod you get a slick UI, album art, and VR selection of artist,album,playlist....

You'll just have to "reburn" your audio cds with CD-TEXT, most audio burner software like Nero can automatically retrieve the CDDB database and insert them into the CD-TEXT info, unless it was a custom track/playlists (not original artist cd), but most cases of you created it from mp3's usually the tag info from mp3s will transfer over to CD-TEXT, as long as the CD-TEXT is enabled on your burner software.

I know its a pain the arse to reburn your cds, but then I can keep my originals stored and just use burned discs so if I scratch or break them it doesnt matter I can reburn it again... then again I haven't used a CD since I got my iTouch and iPhone!