# 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")
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### Author: ![ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/ohrenkino/32/4843_2.png) [@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")

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> [@valleydrive269](#):
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> 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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