No Discs

[dipsomaniac]

does anyone know why my cd is showing 'no discs' when there is a disc in the changer and i have tried the disc all ways???

[malcolm.dobell]

Double, triple check it's in the right way round - the disc - and then turn oof the radio, turn on again and reinsert the caddie.

 

Sometimes a tempramental beast

[gregers]

if it doesnt work turning the disk up the other way turn the car over :lol:

[delboyt]

sound's like the disk selector is worn

i recall a kenwood one cost me about

[dipsomaniac]

just had another play with the changer - took the discs out, put them back in, gave the disc housing a little shake and blew into the inside of the changer unit and hey presto - it is working again.

 

as said previously - a tempermental beast.

 

now where have i put my collection of daniel o'donnell cd's??????

[Scorpiorefugee]

That could be the answer. If you're feeding it Daniel O'donnell it probably just fell asleep. :D

 

Just out of interest. I replaced mine with an MP3 compatible CD player and now have my entire (and totally tasteless) collection of driving music comprising about 100 CDs onto 8 recordable CDs and one CD gives a whole day of freedom from D Js.

 

:rolleyes:

[dipsomaniac]

I am not too hot on all of the different media formats. my changer will play recordable CDR's made with windows media player though. when I get a spare couple of days and a larger hard drive I will transfer all of my music collection (only joking about daniel o'donnell) onto the pc.

 

I see that you can now send music stored on an MP3 player wirelessly to your car radio to play - so maybe the cd changers days are numbered.

[Scorpiorefugee]

MP3 files are audio files which take up typically 1/10 space of a normal CD file and you can get shareware/freeware utilities which will read a CD and convert the files either in real time or much more rapidly - typically 2 or 3 minutes for a full CD.

 

These files can be written to a recordable CD in one go once you have accumulated 640M of files using the standard PC file directory structure to separate the various CDs or tracks if you want to go to that level. Keep your names short because the players I have experience of only display about a dozen letters.

 

You will need a CD radio which is MP3 compatible and I have found Panasonic or JVC to be cheap and reliable with 40W per 4 channels of good quality sound. price

[dipsomaniac]

thanks for the info Ron. I will get around to it one day.