Odd characters in car CD display

General Discussion
#1

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 :smiley: .

#2

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.

#3

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
Sorry, you have to try it locally, but these the knobs to twiddle.

#4

Thanks ohrenkino, I changed the character encoding to ISO-8859-1 and the Titles are being displayed correctly now.

Muchas Gracias