Checked the audio forum and didn't see anything there so I thought I would post here.

I have an '04 SL with the upgraded Bose CD changer. RDS seems to work fine but none of my CD's will show CD title or track title. They always show "no track title". This is the case for home burned CD's as well as originals.

Does anyone else have this problem? Are all of my CD's too old to have this information encoded (Steely Dan, Pink Floyd, etc.)?

Thanks for the help.

 

I've only got a few newer CDs that show the title. I also have some very recent ones that do not show the titles ?

Bob

 

They have to be encoded with CD TEXT. Some software for burnign CD's has this option.

Its hit and miss for new CD's. Some do, some don't. About the only new CD I have that shows track info is actually a hybrid SACD.

CM.

 

Same here. None of the CDs currently in my SL will show either track name or CD title, but then none of them are less than several years old.

I may hold off buying CDs for a year or so, until this info possibly becomes sort of standard.

 

what kind of burning program do you guys use? i know nero has the ability to have the cd-text on the audio cd.

 

What is the upgraded Bose system? Is it standard in the SL? Mine is an SL...how do I know if it has the upgrade?

 

You have to turn it on in the sudio section of the radio. The same place you adjust the bass, treble, etc. It took me a while to find it...

 

Turn what on?? I use nero to burn mine, it shows Album name, Singer and song title.

 

Apparently not all cars come with the system set to display the track name, mine didn't.

You might try pushing the audio **** on the radio controls several times. It will cycle thru bass, treble, balance, fade (not necessarily in that order), but you will come to a choice for "display mode". Turning the **** cycles between "track name" and "track number".

Some prerecorded CDs come without track numbers, and display the name instead.

If you are not seeing the track name on a CD you recorded and burned the text to, give this a try.

p.s. Roxio also will burn the track names and album name and artist name.

 

Display CD text:
To change the text displayed while playing a CD, press the AUDIO **** until "Display Mode" appears. Turn the Tuning **** within 2 seconds. The text will change as follows:
Track number <--> Track title <--> Disc title <--> Track number


Display satellite radio text:
To change the text displayed while listening to satellite radio, press the AUDIO **** until "Display Mode" appears.

Turn the Tuning **** within 2 seconds. The text will change as follows:
Channel number <--> Channel name <--> Artist <--> Title <--> Channel number

 

I wish that the song/artist display mode that you see when pressing the audio button once would alwasy automatically take effect... it's annoying to have to press it every time I turn the radio on just to see song info...

 

Ok, I have to go try this.
KCMaxx, thanks for the email about this.

Monotaur , are you saying you have to set the setting every time you start the car? That doesn't seem right.

 

It stays set, if you get to "display mode" and then turn the **** to "Track Title"

Come on folks, this isn't rocket science. Read your owners manual....

 

Yeah, I actually hit that before, but never changed it. I just set it but it kinda sucks that it doesn't scroll. So if hte song name is more than 2 words it gets truncated. Oh well....its still cool

 

Ok... while listening to SAT radio, I can hit the "Audio button" and it will display the song title/artist name in small text below the channel number.. that is what I'm referring too (sorry if I was unclear earlier). That is much easier to read.

 

To answer jc53's question from yesterday morning:

When Rathmax referred to the 'upgraded' Bose system, that misled you. The Bose with all its bells and whistles is standard on ALL SLs. It is only an 'upgrade' when referring to SEs.

us024077 is correct in that displaying the song title or CD title requires using the audio **** (as ocuihs also explained) to display this in place of displaying the numerical track # and CD slot #.

But the fact remains that most 'store bought' (non burned) CDs do not have the information available to display. I have checked dozens of my CDs that were from three to ten years old, and none had the CD title or song titles available. Very few of the new ones had it. That is why I am going to go easy on CD purchases for a year or two, until this info is more widely available.

Burners, however, should already have this info on their CDs.

 

I've got hundreds of store bought CDs some recent and some not so recent. The only ones that i've found this information on so far are: Audioslave (2002), Aerosmith's latest (Honking on Bobo / 2004) and Bruce Springsteen (The Rising / 2002).

My latest CD purchases were Lenny Kravitz (Baptism / 2004), Incubus (Morning View / 2001) (A Crow Left Of The Murder / 2004), and Coldplay (A Rush of Blood to The Head / 2002). The track titles were not included on any of these.

As Lightonthehill said, this info is not yet widely available on store bought CDs.

Bob

 

Youcould always reburn them to new cds and name the tracks before you burn. Then you have a copy for your car and a copy for home, and don't have to worry about the heat damaging your original cd.

Plus...it's not illegal to make a copy for your own use.

 

paying 10 bucks for a CD and not getting this is

 

I wish it was $10. CDs go for about $15 and up where i live.

Bob

 

Thanks for the clarification Lightonthehill your post was right on. I've read the owners manual and know how to turn on the track info, it just doesn't display. To answer another question, I use Musicmatch to burn my CD's. I have Roxio and will try that to see if it works any better.

 

in cannuck bucks!

 

Yea... why doesn't the display scroll for CD's? I thought they would fix that for you 6th gen guys at least. It scrolls the text when the radio has RDS - go figure.

 

Used Roxio this weekend to burn some CD's and bingo, the track info displays now. Apparently Roxio handles this better than MusicMatch.