# Odd characters in car CD display
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/odd-characters-in-car-cd-display/18074
**Category:** General Discussion
**Created:** [June 29, 2016, 8:38am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/odd-characters-in-car-cd-display/18074 "2016-06-29T08:38:58Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@valleydrive269](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/valleydrive269)
#### Post date: [June 29, 2016, 8:38am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/odd-characters-in-car-cd-display/18074/1 "2016-06-29T08:38:58Z")
I converted all the audio CDs I use in my car to mp3 files so that I could get several hours of play on a single data CD.
The car player doesn't show the filenames or Title field, it only displays three characters -
ÿþ plus the first letter in the Title field.
Does anyone know why this happens ? The two leading characters are Alt 0255 and Alt 0254 but I don't know if this has any significance. How can I get the Title field to be displayed ?
The player is in an eight year old Vauxhall Astra. Maybe it's just a rubbish player and I need to buy a new car to play my CD properly 😃 .
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### Author:  [@poster](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/poster)
#### Post date: [June 29, 2016, 9:00am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/odd-characters-in-car-cd-display/18074/2 "2016-06-29T09:00:20Z")
Are Id3v1.1 tags in the mp3s?
Oder Players don't support ID3v2.3 or 2.4.
Another possibility:
Incompatibility between the CD-ROM-Player and the chosen file-system of the burning software.
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [June 29, 2016, 9:03am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/odd-characters-in-car-cd-display/18074/3 "2016-06-29T09:03:11Z")
> [@valleydrive269](#):
>
> I converted all the audio CDs I use in my car to mp3 files so that I could get several hours of play on a single data CD.
>
> The car player doesn't show the filenames or Title field, it only displays three characters -
> ÿþ plus the first letter in the Title field.
>
> Does anyone know why this happens ? The two leading characters are Alt 0255 and Alt 0254 but I don't know if this has any significance. How can I get the Title field to be displayed ?
>
> The player is in an eight year old Vauxhall Astra. Maybe it's just a rubbish player and I need to buy a new car to play my CD properly 😃 .
You should check if the car stereo can cope with V2 tags. Perhaps it only likes V1 tags and therefore hickups when it reads the data of the V2 tags - which are stored at the beginning of a file, while V1 tags are stored at the end.
Also, the character encoding could be a problem - see this thread about encoding:
[/t/2785/1](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/2785/1)
Sorry, you have to try it locally, but these the knobs to twiddle.
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### Author:  [@valleydrive269](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/valleydrive269)
#### Post date: [June 29, 2016, 10:53am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/odd-characters-in-car-cd-display/18074/4 "2016-06-29T10:53:30Z")
> [@ohrenkino](#):
>
> You should check if the car stereo can cope with V2 tags. Perhaps it only likes V1 tags and therefore hickups when it reads the data of the V2 tags - which are stored at the beginning of a file, while V1 tags are stored at the end.
>
> Also, the character encoding could be a problem - see this thread about encoding:
>
> [/t/2785/1](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/2785/1)
> Sorry, you have to try it locally, but these the knobs to twiddle.
Thanks ohrenkino, I changed the character encoding to ISO-8859-1 and the Titles are being displayed correctly now.
Muchas Gracias