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[SEGeaserGlide06]

Is anyone having success burning MP3 CD's for the new Harmon Kardon system?

[SEULTRA]

I use Windows Media Player to select and burn mine and they work great in my HK unit in my SEULTRA. As far as I know, MP3 is MP3. Does the HK skip with .WAV files (like on a CD you buy from the store)? If it does, the issue is with the unit, not your burned MP3 files. Does it skip when it's standing still or only when the bike is started or riding (I'm thinking a vibration dampening issue here)?

[SEGeaserGlide06]

I have not tried .wav files.  I thought it only played mp3.  It is not vibration because it skips standing still.  I will try media player and burn a new CD.  

Thanks for the advice.

[Eqcons]

I'd worry a little that the adjustment of the laser is just on the edge of tolerance in either your head unit (hope not!) or your CD Writer...

Jim

[electraglideclyde]

I have played several burned MP3's in my unit and have had no trouble so far.
Hope you find the problem.

[Road_Glider]

I got my kid to burn a CD of songs he liked in MP3 format for the bike so he can listen to the music he likes as we cruise.  It has played without any problems so far.  Cool thing is my 12 year old picked some pretty nice music to listen to, quite a variety of cool songs.  I was pleasantly surprised.

[C-DEUCE04]

Burn speed and disk quality are usually the 2 culprits with 'unreadable' disks. Some players are just more finicky about those issues. Try burning the mp3s at a slower speed and changing the brand of CDR. I've made many beer coasters in my time and found this to be the biggest issue.

[SEGeaserGlide06]

 [smiley=xyxthumbs.gif]Thanks to you all for the advice.

[displacing air]

There had been quite a few people complaining of skipping on their new harmon kardon...I have heard of some getting them replaced under warrenty.

But check ...what quality you are ripping "converting" your songs to mp3. You can rip them to smaller files which cut back the quality and possibly may be harder for the stereo to decompress. Mine skips sometimes on mp3 also. Also burn them on a better quality disc. And if a best quality mp3 on a high quality disc still skips...I would put it in for
warrenty replacement.

[the O`Fender]

You should avoid using "VBR" (variable bit rate) when converting your CD's to MP3 and use CBR (constant bit rate), if you are experiencing problems with "some" songs that you downloaded off the internet and they play in your computer check to see if they are VBR versus CBR (check the properties of the song), many cd players are finicky about this issue. The reason for VBR is to condense the files more. hope that helps  [smiley=pumpkin.gif]

[SEULTRA]

You should avoid using "VBR" (variable bit rate) when converting your CD's to MP3 and use CBR (constant bit rate), if you are experiencing problems with "some" songs that you downloaded off the internet and they play in your computer check to see if they are VBR versus CBR (check the properties of the song), many cd players are finicky about this issue. The reason for VBR is to condense the files more. hope that helps

[arcticdude]

I'm trying to burn my first mp3 CD and can't get windows media player 10 to cooperate.  I've converted everything to mp3 when I ripped the songs from my cd's.  When I try to burn them, I'm only getting 16 songs on a cd- 1 album's worth.  Then it tells me the cd is full, it's a 700mb CD.  Do I have the wrong type cd?  Can I put mp3s on a dvd and play them in the HK player?  Thinking about the extra capacity, and I have a dvd burner at work w/ dvd's sitting there.

[110tHunDer]

I sounds like you might be burning an audio CD, not mp3 files.  I'm not familiar with Windows Media Player, but you probably have to select what format you want when you burn the CD.  Does the disc you've burned play in a normal CD player?  If it does, it's not mp3.

[C-DEUCE04]

103THunDer is correct. You are probaby burning your mp3s back to audio files if your using windows media player. You just need to treat your mp3s as data files and burn a data disk, not an audio disk.

As for DVDs, I believe your HK only plays CDs so it will not accept mp3s burned on DVDs. It has a different wavelength laser to read the disks.

[arcticdude]

Thanks for the info.  I was burning as an audio, I'll try the data aspect and see what happens.  For grins, I'll try the dvd and let ya know.

[SEGeaserGlide06]

Thanks for the info.

[Gordito]

I'm having the same skipping issue.
Thing is, I've burned a couple of songs from the same cd, and one will play while the other won't. Can anyone recommend a good quality CD to burn to? Will try that fix AND burning from Windows vice iTunes and see if either makes a difference. I have no qualms about taking it back to the dealer if all else fails, just wanna be sure.

Thanks!
Rick

[BK]

I had the same problem at first but once I slected the data format I was able to burn 211 songs on a CD and so far they all play cleanly and clearly on the H-K.