CD Titles on MFD

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Winston @ Jun 13 2007, 07:39 AM) [snapback]460830[/snapback]</div>

I don't have the MP3 CD player in my Prius, we have the base model. But a CD won't show any titles unless the CD has text included, which most do not.

-wiiprii

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Winston @ Jun 13 2007, 07:39 AM) [snapback]460830[/snapback]</div>

The answer to your question has nothing to do with the MFD or the stereo in the vehicle. The CD has to have the CD Text as part of the recording. Most CDs don't have this information on them. There are some that do have this and will show up on the MFD with the title.

The reason that all MP3 CD's have the information is because it is encoded on your computer and the information is downloaded from CDDB or other source when the CD is ripped to the computer storing the MP3.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Winston @ Jun 13 2007, 10:39 AM) [snapback]460830[/snapback]</div>

I've made a couple and they worked fine. The MFD will show the folder & filename of the song being played.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Winston @ Jun 13 2007, 07:39 AM) [snapback]460830[/snapback]</div>

Where are you looking for the titles? If you have CDs that include CD-text, it should at least show up when the MFD is switched to Audio. That should be the case if your "other" players show it (however, if they are computers with internet access, they could be getting the information that way instead of from the CD). I've recorded some audio CDs that included CD-text and it shows up on the Audio screen. It does not show up on the banner bar that appears across the top of the MFD when the CD changes. That just shows Disk & Track #. Seems like it should show the CD-text but it doesn't.
I've also made several MP3 disks which work great. As Proco says, the MP3 information shown is folder and filename. I expect we will shortly have only MP3 disks in the player since you can get so much more music onto the 6 CDs.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Winston @ Jun 13 2007, 11:55 AM) [snapback]460948[/snapback]</div>

Another Toyota over-engineered safety feature, perhaps??

 

Using iTunes 7.2 running on a PC (not a Mac) I was able to burn audio CDs with CD-text (the track
listing comes from the Internet). When playing the burned CD in the Prius, the CD-text showed up
fine. However, the volume is much lower than the real audio CD. Not sure yet why. Will do some
more testing on this...

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(zenMachine @ Jul 2 2007, 03:17 PM) [snapback]471833[/snapback]</div>

This works on Macs too. I don't remember the volume being lower.