Hi,

Is it possible to get CD Text on the display of the stock Bose system? If yes, how can it be done?

Thanks!!

 

In short, NO

 

The only way to get the CD text is if you burn the CD yourself. Not many CD's sold in stores have any text on them.

 

Hi,

I too have a radio station that comes through as text, so I'm certain the display can show text. Has anyone had any cd's that have shown up as text?

Thanks!!

 

The RDS system is just that. I dont think the HU supports CD text.

 

uh, yes it does. Its just most retail CDs don't have cd-text. Hit the PTY button while you got the CD playing. It cycles through CD title, track title, and no title.

Hit the Auto P. button to see the rest of the text (it cuts off at like 7 characters).

 

Hi,

That sounds promising!!

Do you have any cd's that have cd text? I'm pretty sure when we make our cd's there probably is a way of doing that. Have any ideas?

Thanks!!

 

yes my h/u does display the cd-text. i have the 6-cd bose h.u.

 

 

Yes, it is possible. If your head unit has RDS and if you burn your cds from mp3s that has ID3 tags or ID2. In other words if the mp3 is tagged, then it will show up on your head unit, but since the one in the Bose doesn't scroll across, the text is very limited. Try downloading a software called "Dr.Tag" to edit id3 tags. ID3/ID2 displays the song's title/artist/year/track/genere etc.

 

Not true, both my CD burner and my DVD burner can burn text on CDs. It has more to do with the software that you are using than it does with the burner itself.

 

not true.....press the "pty" button and voila, it scrolls

 

just burn the cd yourself. check under properties of the track you are burning. if compatable you should be able to "label" the track.

 

ot by it self, it only scrolls a lil bit when u push it

 

 

i burned my cd's using NERO. i edited the tags on each MP3. and it does display CD text both Artist and Title.

 

How do you make it scroll across automatically???

 

you cant!

 

I was unaware you could play MP3's. My manual doesn't say anything about it. It thought I tried the Nav CD, but it didn't recognize the MP3 disk, does the changer?

2k3 with Bose and Nav

 

no it doesnt play MP3

 

Why do you keep saying this when you obviously have no idea what you're talking about? Almost any burner that you can buy today can burn text on audio CDs. My old 8x HP CD burner that I got probably 3-4 years ago could do it. My newer 24x HP CD burner can do it. My 4x HP DVD burner can do it. Know what you're talking about before you speak.

 

Does anyone know which CD burning software will enable CD text reading on the Bose HU? It looks like NERO will do it. Anyone know if Easy CD Creator 5 will do it?

I used to have a Minidisc player in my old car and LOVED how it would display the band and track title. I would love to able to have a similar feature in my BOSE!

 

Yep, Roxio Easy CD Creator 5 and Nero will both do it. But as others have said in this thread, the text display on the Bose is somewhat limited. It only displays 8 characters at a time and there doesn't seem to be a way to get it to auto-scroll, you have to push the button manually.

 

If you're burning mp3s to an audio cd, both nero and easy cd 5+ will automatically take the names from the mp3s and put them as CD-text. In nero, in the burning settings make sure you have 'use cd-text' checked. There you fill in the cd title, author, etc too. I'm not sure about easy cd but I know the last time I tried it it put the text on there.

Just about every cd/dvd burner except the very first gen CD burners (>4x) do cd-text. Check the checkmark in nero for cd-text when you first start making an audio CD, you'll know pretty quick whether your burner supports it or not as it'll give you an error if it doesnt support it when you go to burn.

If you're burning from wavs or from mp3's without the info in them, in nero once you add the tracks to the CD you can right click the track and go to properties and put in the info manually. I'm sure easy cd has something similar but I don't have it on here so I can't say for sure.

But, cd text on the bose really sucks. A) it doesn't autoscroll so you have to hit the button to see the rest of the song name b) when you are viewing the title the track info is gone (track #, cd #, track time) c) if you get to a CD without text it just sits there with NO TITLE on there instead of resetting back to normal. you can tell the cd-text feature was a last second thing the clarion people stuck in there so they could put it on the brochure

 

I stand corrected

 

Dumba$$...try actually reading my post next time before you reply and tell me to do something I have already done 1000 times. Scroll up, I already said my 3 year old 8x HP burns audio text when using Roxio 5 or Nero. So do both of my new ones. Look at how many people in this thread say they can burn text on audio CDs and you're sitting here saying that "only a few burners on the market can do it". You have no idea what you're talking about so just stop. I have burned audio text with...

1) My 3-4 year old 8x HP CD burner, which I gave to my sister and she still uses to this day. (Burning audio text to her CDs which shows up on her aftermarket car head unit I might add.)

2) My newer 24x HP CD burner.

3) My 4x HP DVD burner.

4) My 24x that came with my Dell at work.


Exactly.

 

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