Monotaur

Hi,

I recently purchased an XM radio kit and decided to install it myself (placing the XM 'tail' on the rear deck, which works pretty well). When displaying the artist name and song titles (by pressing the right **** once), it only displays the first 10 characters of artist name and song title. However, when there is no song/artist information available, it says "NO ARTIST AVAILABLE" and "NO SONG AVAILABLE" or something to that effect which is clearly much more tha 10 characters each. Does anyone else have a non-NAV screen with XM and is able to get more than just the first 10 characters? Does the NAV screen show more?

Thanks.

2004BlkMaxSL

Hello Monotaur,

I have sirius, but I would image that the display works in a similar manner. For my service, I turn the tuning **** on the radio to the right to see additional information on the display screen. There have been times where I've used the **** to see two additional screens. I hope XM works the same way.

2004BlkMaxSL.

jrussell915

I have XM running on a NAV enabled screen and have the same limitation of 10 characters. Admittedly, I have not broken out the manual to see if there is a way to display more characters, but I intend to do that today. If I find anything out, I will post here.

It's frustrating sometimes!

Monotaur

Well, I checked and I could not get any further configuration screens to come up by turning the tuning **** to the right (after pressing it once so that the song information was displayed).

Thanks for the help though 2004BlkMaxSL.

jrussell915, too bad that the NAV screen also only displays 10 characters. Does XM only transmit 10 characters? Surely not?

Thanks

Mr.Sparkle

XM only transmits 10 chars. Sirius is not limited to that.

Monotaur

Thanks.. I was afraid of that. In the commercials, you see displays with more than 10 characters, but that is a commercial...

I wish I would have known that before purchasing my sat radio, I might have been swayed to go with Sirious, although XM has many benefits.

Mr.Sparkle

My car came with XM and I ended buying the Sirius. Unfortuantelly the sound quality on Sirius is alot worse so I ended up putting the XM module back in. Too bad too because I liked their programing better.

jrussell915

After a good amount of research (calling Nissan and XM tech support) one thing became perfectly clear. In most cases, Nissan will point the finger at XM andXM will point the finger at Nissan.

Apparently, XM transmits the entire string of the Artist/Title/Station etc. According to XM, it is common for radios to cut off at a set number of digits.

Not only did Nissan not have a manual on XM, the tech support guy had trouble giving me a satisfactory answer as to why the Max stock system does not display the full name with XM, but does with Sirius.

Bottom line, I was unable to get a clear answer, but I am not giving up.