araycho

My car has the normal CD player and the 6 disk 6-changer/payer (CDC). When I pop in audio cds (legitimate ones, bought from amazon and barnes&nobles), the payer can neither recognize the cd titles nor the tracks and shows them as "track 1", "track 2" etc etc...
I was suprprised and a little disappointed. It happens with all the CDs that I tried and most of them are new cds (digitally recorded music and all).
Is this how it will be? Any suggestions/thoughts?

lkchris

This is normal.

murman

Unless a "legit" music CD is encoded with CD Text, then what you see is normal. Even these days, discs with CD Text do not seem to be the norm, or at least for the CD's I buy (mostly Euro imports).

yikes

you can use a program like easy cd-da and write in the text and reburn it if you really must have the cd text

bigmel

I concur the is normal for retail music CDs. even if you insert the CD in your computer it dint have the title however it will use the Internet to get the titles.

LRM1

Sadly it is normal. Even CD's with CD Text rarely appear on the screen. It isn't just a Benz thing-my Audi was the same. I have plenty of CD Text discs that show titles everywhere but in the car. Don't know why.

bigmel

when I burn a CD-Rom and I enable CD text it works like a charm..

LRM1

Maybe I'll give it a shot. To be honest, almost all of my CD's are on my iPod, which is connected to the car so I rarely use CD's anyway.