So, I copied a bunch of music from my MP3 player to a CD. There are 90 songs on it. After burning everything to the CD it plays on my laptop but, when I put it in the CD player on my ultra, it says "Bad Disk"? What am I doing wrong????

 

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had same issue back in the day. it seems to be a hit or miss with CD player in stocker.

 

I always had to import my mp3 music to iTunes to make the disc. Once up in iTunes I would delete the album artwork then download them as a data disc to a RW-cd. However, before I downloaded them I would always listen to them for a second or two in the playlist first. Sometimes, it required iTunes refinding the song where I had it stored on my computer and importing it. I just did a 162 song disc for one of my cars. The bike uses a jump stick. There is an old thread that goes over this in great detail including other programs for doing it.

 

You copied MP3 files to a CD. Your stock head unit HK can not read MP3's You need load music into a program like real player that will copy them in the correct format and burn them on disk. You will get maybe 15 songs on a CD

 

The stock HU will read mp3's. Had a friend make a copy of a cd he had made and it worked fine.

 

Guy's ... he riding an older scooter ...

 

I recently tried copying mp3's directly to a RW-CD and it would not play on any CD player. I believe some sort of "program" such as itunes or some of the others available such as the one BigDave mentioned has to be used to burn the CD with some sort of "magic code" to make it playable on the HK head unit on recent touring models (perhaps 09-13).

As I said, when itunes is used I regularly can put 150-170 songs on one cd.

 

I finally got it figured out. Found the .cda option. Was able to get 17 songs on a CD and it plays on my bike. Thanks for the suggestions.

 

The first time you did it, it was probably a data cd that could only be read by your laptop. It's been a long time since I dabbled but you must close the CD-R and make it readable on other players. This way it will be read by other units. Otherwise it will only be read on a pc and usually only on the pc that created it.

You fixed the problem by making it a CDA or audio CD. That process closes it and makes it readable by any cd player. I will say the quality of the blank CD-R's makes a difference also. Taiwanese Verbatims used to be the best.

 

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