[pepsisteve]

cant seem to get my sony 1st generation 6 disc head unit to play mp3's. i already had some mp3 discs burnt from another car and they worked fine in that but wont play in the ST. it starts counting but you get no sound. i have tried different types of disc and using windows media player, explorer and i tunes, same result everytime.
what am i doing wrong?

 

[DeanST]

I didnt think the 6 disk autochanger one done MP3, but I maybe wrong!

 

[pepsisteve]

it says in the audio guide that it will.

 

[Scully]

Does it have an mp3 logo on the actual stereo?

 

[rhino_mac]

Hey Steve! Got your account activated nice and quick then!

 

[pepsisteve]

QUOTE(Scully @ 21 Jan 2010, 10:58 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>Does it have an mp3 logo on the actual stereo?dont think it does but it says in the audi guide that it will play them.

QUOTE(rhino_mac @ 21 Jan 2010, 11:36 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>Hey Steve! Got your account activated nice and quick then!

yep, nice to be able to read some of the tech stuff now.

 

[Mart170]

Mine doesn't, tried this the other day, think some of the older generation ones have MP3 written on them to the right of the CD slot but mine doesn't

 

[mingsect]

if your headunit have the green led, it won't play mp3 disc, tested on my headunit - exactly the same result

seems like only the headunit with the red led will be able to play mp3 disc, and they have the mp3 logo on them.

 

[pepsisteve]

i take it by green led you mean green display on the whole head unit. if so mines green!

it..................

 

[choccymonster]

For the avoidance of doubt....

The green screen Sony 6-CD unit will NOT play MP3's.

The green screen Sony SINGLE CD unit WILL play MP3's.

BOTH the newer, red screen Sony units (usually found in the facelifts, and some VERY late pre-facelifts) play MP3's.

In the OP's defence, I agree the manual supplied with the green screen Sony units is not very clear. I had the same misunderstanding when I bought my car.

Your options are simply to plug an iPod into the AUX port, change the 6-CD unit for a single slot green screen unit (that will play MP3's), or change the headunit to something completely different.

I upgraded my green screen 6-CD Sony unit to one of the later red screen 6-CD units - I can play MP3's all day long now.