I normally listen to satellite radio on my scoot, but recently decided to burn a few mix CDs from my iTunes library.

I am running iTunes 10 on Mac Snow Leopard, although that shouldn't make a difference.

I convert tunes to MP3 and create a playlist of the mix. Then I pop in a fresh CD-R disc and select Burn Playlist to Disc from the menu. From the Preferred Speed drop-down I have selected various speeds, all with same result.
For Disc Format I select MP3 CD and click the Burn button.

The disc is created and will play in any CD player, except (intermittently) the stock head unit on my Road Glide. To clarify, if a CD is created that doesn't play on my Glide, it never plays on my Glide. It just displays the track, by number and song title, and then moves to the next track. When it reaches the final track it starts over.
That same CD will play just fine on my Macs, PCs, living room stereo and in my truck.

It doesn't happen every time, but enough to be bothersome. CDs aren't expensive, but still...

Replacing the head unit isn't an option right now.

Anyone?

 

Weird - I did the exact same process on my Mac and '07 Ultra and the CD plays fine. Brand of CD maybe? You would think they are all the same but maybe not.

 

I do the same thing and notice some songs are skipped over. Haven't done enough to figure out a pattern. I wonder if it has anything to do with the bitrate of the MP3?

 

So far no skipping tracks or intermittent playing on mine. The only quirk though is when I put the unit on random it tends to always play the same pattern of track numbers. its like "random" was designed at the factory to be a specific order.

 

I had a similar issue playing burned CDs. Would get goofy and skip around on some tracks. My solution was to get a deck that could control and charge my iPod. Not the answer you were looking for I know.

Previously before getting a new deck, I ran my iPod 99% of the time into my AUX input. Very seldom listened to CDs.

 

I went through that for a while before going with the I pod. I found different brands of CD's performe differently. My experience was the Maxell CD was the worst. Surprisingly the store brand CD from Micro Center give me the best results.

 

From experience I would say CD is the issue, sometimes it will take a while to find one that works 99% of the time (nothing will work 100% of the time)

On a different note, did you know you can expand you music collection using a Youtube Converter? Go to Youtube and find a song you want or backing track to a video, click the 'Share' button and copy the URL into the website below and click 'Convert Video' when done click 'Download' , job done
YouTube Converter ---- http://www.youtube-mp3.org/

Of course you wont do this as its highly illegal

 

Try burning as data cd., under options: slow speed, and m3u

 

I'll try that.

What's funny is that some CDs I've recorded work just fine on the scoot.

I even tried copying portions of my main iTunes library into the home folder on my MacBook Pro. Import them into iTunes there. Go thru the same steps... and I get a CD that skips every single track.

Could it be that my scoot doesn't like Phish? That's just not right, as I'd like to have this set (5 hours of live music) on the Glide.

 

+1 on burning as a data disc, speed doesn't matter. Since I started burning them as data I haven't had a single bad disk.

Also as data you can fit 90 - 110 songs per cd!