Just curious, does anyones SOW display the names of the songs on the CD next to the track number? Mine does not.

 

Mine does, but only on a select few discs, I can't explain why.

 

Not all CDs (in fact very few) contain the track info. You can burn disks from iTunes that include track names (but you have to turn it on).

 

Most of my new CDs on computer at home can display all of that info, but Im thinking its because it has an internet connection. As for the other CDs, I have some that should have displayed but dont.

 

The majority of the CD's I have recorded correctly display the album and track names. But I have had a few that either retrieved incorrect titles or none at all.

In fact I have one 2-CD Set (GNR Live) where the album and track information was retrieved correctly for Disc 1, but when I recorded Disc 2, it picked up all the album and track names from Disc 1. For this one, I entered the Disc 2 album and track names manually.

I am still not sure if this data is being retrieved from the CD's themselves, or from an onboard Gracenote DB.

If the system does have a Gracenote DB on the hard drive, does Infiniti have any plan to provide updates?

 

Be sure to have the lastest Gracenote data installed in your HD.

 

I don't know about full DB updates, but you can download missing disc info as described here: http://www.infiniti.com/music-update/

My SOW has correctly identified every disc with tracknames I've put in except one.

 

I have not had one yet that has reads song data off of my CD's. I've loaded every CD I have to my PC then to an MP3 player and all have the song data but none read on my display... Out of 100 Albums I ripped last month.

 

There are two ways to encode CD Text information and iTunes only uses one way (iTunes version 7 - in Edit, Preferences, Advanced, Burning, Click CD Text). So, even though you select this option, it appears the new G's CD player does not read the CD text that iTunes has burnt. That's why some CD's will show the CD text, while others will not (depending on the way the CD text was encoded). Roxio Toast (a CD burning program) burns CD's using both text encoding options).

Hope this helps.

 

CD's that I've burnt using Nero 7.x also displays text on the screen.

 

Just make MP3 CDs

 

Mp3's will not play from the CD changer in the trunk,Right? Like mfecko, I use itunes 7 w/cd text turned on..... works in the FX....... Hoping it works in the G too.

 

MP3's will not play from CD changer, only in-dash CD.

I recommend using the Compact Flash if you have Nav, it works great. It's fast, displays Artist, Album, Title info, can organize into folders (only one level deep, I do it by album), you don't have to do the slow 4x rip in you car (just copy from PC), and you can use higher bit rates than the Music Box 132bps for better sound quality. Get two 4GB CF cards, and you'll have nearly as much capacity as the internal HD.

Only downside of CF is you don't get all the cool-to-show-off features of Music Box, such as Play-By-Mood.

I use Windows Media Player 10/11 to rip CD's, and the Artist, Album, and Track info that gets automatically downloaded from the internet and encoded to the MP3 shows up fine.

 

do you know how to turn on this option?

 

Railgunner.... Your old collection of Karen Carpenter hits probably won't have the text encoded!