****... I'm about ready to give up on CDs.

Tried burning as data and get the exact same result: displays track number and name, skips to next number and name, etc.

Here are the burn settings I have in iTunes 10.5.1:



Available speeds are 1x, 2, 4, 6, 8, 12, 16, 20, 24, Max. Doesn't matter what you choose.

I have a Grateful Dead CD that I burned as MP3 disc. About 6 songs skip, the rest play. There are 100 on that CD.

 

...your HK radio doesn't like the Greatful Dead either!


GSF

 

Not just data. You can fit over 100 MP3s on a regular CD too.

 

Not entirely true... it doesn't balk at my leaving Sirius channel 23 (GD channel) on for hours on end.

 

When I burn them as data it only plays about 28 tracks then goes back to 1. Had to burn as MP3 CD to get to play all songs.

 

This is what I do and it always works. Burn MP3's as data CD. If you have a decent burner speed should not matter, I just use auto select for that. But if you do have problems then slow it down some.

I do not do the m3u thing, I don't need a playlist. sometimes they burn onto the CD in a different order than what you want and the m3u playlist will make it play in the order you want even if they are not in that order on the disk. But I usually don't care about the order so I don't make lists.

Burner and CD and player quality have a lot to do with it. Often, burning at slower speeds helps.

 

Yep. That's what I did (MP3 in data format) and it worked fine. I have 132 songs on 1 CD. I play them randomly so I don't care about the sequence they're burned in. In reality, they're burned by artist name alphabetically

 

I've come to the conclusion that it's not the CD itself, not the recorder, not the format of the recording... it's the Harman-Kardon deck that's the problem.

If it wasn't why would all (every single one) of the CDs that skip tracks on the bike play perfectly in every other player I try them in? So far I have about 7 CDs that exhibit the skipping phenomenon, yet they don't do this when played in 3 PCs (Windows 7 and XP), 2 Macs, truck, car, living room...

 

+1 on data disc.

I burned 3 before my ride of a lifetime and have over 48 hours of mp3's on 3 discs!!! Each disc over 12 hours.

If I recall there were settings for fidelity, I didn't use the largest file size and it worked out fine.

 

Funny you say that. Sunday, I was in a bar and I wanted the DJ to play a song from the CD in my bike. He couldn't manage to play it. So yes, the problem is the deck, depending what format you burn the CD in. Some play MP3 in data format, others don't .......