I can't get my new bose stereo to play a disc that I made on the computer. It just beeps and says check disc. It works on my house stereo. Is there something I am missing here?? Thanks. 8

 

Read the owners manual - it states that it will not play cd-rs.

 

My 06 plays CD-R's I think the book says it wont play CD-RW's. What format did you rip the disc to. MP3, WMA, AAC. Because the stock deck will only play MP3's and WMA's besides in normal audio CD format. When I first got my G I ripped a disc and I got the same message. I found out that when I ripped the disc in Itunes it was in AAC format. Changed the settings for the rip and works great now.

 

I also ripped it in ITunes as well. I will try changing the settings and see how that goes. Thanks.

 

Ok now, I have been looking on my ITunes page and can't find where it allows you to change formats for the burn. Any ideas? Thanks.

 

with Itunes, it won't allow you to play it on any other source other than Ipod. You would need this program Hot Recoder fro Music from www.hotrecorder.com, to rip it into a wave file or mp3 inorder it to play. But If you have an 04-06 then it should play mp3 but if you have a 03 like me than the wave file should work.

 

If your music is not from the itunes store, you can go under the advanced settings and change the settings to burn an MP3 disc or a regular audio cd. If your music is from the itunes store (AAC format, e.g. song.mp4), you can burn it to a regular audio cd from within itunes. EDIT: To walk it through, go to edit->preferences -> advanced tab. Choose burning->mp3 cd or audio cd.

And just as a tip... if you want to rip a regular audio cd in itunes, go to the importing tab and change the import filter to MP3 decoder. Choose custom properties and choose the stereo bitrate as 192kbps or higher. Make sure VBR is unchecked. I like to uncheck the smart encoding adjustments and the filter below 10kHz. Just sounds better to me. Least as good as the Bose can produce

 

Thanks for the info. I will give it a try...