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Hi-
I just recently switched from PC to MAC (27" iMAC - Snow Leopard).
My car can read/play mp3s from a CDR...I've been doing this successfully with my old PC. However, I just recently burned some new Data CDRs (full of mp3s) on my new iMAC and my car will not read them.
I burned the data CDRs using the program "Burn". The problem is not the type of CDRs (same kind I used on the old PC and play fine in the car).
I guess my next test will be to burn another data CDR of mp3s, but this time NOT put them in folders...just all in the root directory. I wonder if that is the problem...that my car can't read the MAC code related to the folder structure (though my car can read the folder structure burned from PCs). Even if this works, it ***** playing a disc full of mp3s all in the same root folder, in a car, cuz it never reads your file-name structure in the exact order you want it to.
I'd appreciate any helpful advice/insight anyone may have on this problem.
Thanks!

OS X adds some additional metadata when burning data CDs. The extensions are written in such away that readers should ignore them if they don't know what to do with them, but it's possible your CD player is buggy or doesn't fully comport with ISO9660.
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