MP3 CD Player malfunction - The Unofficial BMW M5 Messageboard (m5board.com)

MPULSV6 · 15th December 2005, 07:41

I have several MP3 CDs and none of them will play correctly in my CD Player. The songs will play for about 5 to 10 seconds and skip to the next song. Sometimes the song won't play at all and it skips to the next song and so on.

I thought something was wrong with the CD and it plays fine in my 750. So then I thought I recorded it too fast (48x speed) so I duplicated the same CD in 2 x mode (sux cuz it took forever) and still same issue. Occasionally I'll pull the CD out and put it back in and it will playfor a while and the symptom comes back.

Anyone else having this issue?

jfenley · 15th December 2005, 09:19

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Originally Posted by AvusRS6

I have several MP3 CDs and none of them will play correctly in my CD Player. The songs will play for about 5 to 10 seconds and skip to the next song. Sometimes the song won't play at all and it skips to the next song and so on.

I thought something was wrong with the CD and it plays fine in my 750. So then I thought I recorded it too fast (48x speed) so I duplicated the same CD in 2 x mode (sux cuz it took forever) and still same issue. Occasionally I'll pull the CD out and put it back in and it will playfor a while and the symptom comes back.

Anyone else having this issue?

Sounds like you are in the "Scan" mode where each track is previewed for a few seconds.

phat · 15th December 2005, 10:19

I have a different issue in that MP3 CDs in the CD drive will have occasional audio glitches, as would be caused by unmasked read errors. The same discs play without issue in the DVD drive.

Phat

MPULSV6 · 15th December 2005, 23:40

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Originally Posted by jfenley

Sounds like you are in the "Scan" mode where each track is previewed for a few seconds.

I'm certain it's not that as I try Scan mode with a regular CD, different behavior.

ananms · 16th December 2005, 00:29

I am having the same problem, albeit in a relatively minor form. The songs will play correctly for a while then all of a sudden, in the middle of a song, it will cut off and move to the next song. Happens maybe once every 5-10 songs but does not have a steady pattern.

In addition, today for the first time, the song was shown to be playing on the monitor but no audio from the speakers...took out the CD and the radio played fine...reinserted the CD and everything was fine again.

I have not tried the CD in the Nav DVD unit.

Anybody know why?

MPULSV6 · 16th December 2005, 05:24

Tried the same CD in the DVD player and it works like a champ.

Is my CD unit bad or should I expect this?

Jster · 29th March 2006, 17:08

I was wondering whether anyone ever drove this issue to ground as I am now seeing the problem in my dash CD drive. Audio will cease but track time continues to elapse. Using IDrive to switch over to the DVD player and then back to the CD player will fix the issue as will ejecting the disc and reinserting it. The track that the CD "failed" on will play fine on next try so I am thinking it isn't a problem with the disk. I haven't seen this problem with the DVD drive but then again I haven't used that drive as much for MP3s. I imagine that the dealership will just replace the drive if I go that way. Thanx..j