Audio Systems: 2003 ford explorer sport trac pioneer 6 cd player, ford explorer sport trac, ford explorer sport


Question
i have the above vehicle and when i play a home made cd in it i get a bad disk error - store bought cds work just fine.  when i play the same home made cds in my other vehilces they work just fine.  any ideas?

Answer
some cd players simply cant read burned cds.  but there are right and wrong ways to burn a cd and if you follow all the correct ways, 99% of all cd players will work.

#1 most important thing, use a cd burning application.  WINDOWS MEDIA PLAYER IS NOT A CD BURNING APPLICATION!!  neither is dragging and dropping in windows explorer.  examples of cd burning apps are Nero, Roxio, etc.
Make sure that you tell the application you are burning an audio cd and not a data cd.

If there are settings for the following options set them like this:  

DON'T use multisession (no multisession)
choose Disk at once, NOT track at once (sometimes just listed as DAO or TAO)
You MUST finalize the disk.  
if there is a speed setting set it to the slowest speed (4x, 8x etc  DON'T USE 52X)

USE CDRs NOT CDRWs

if you burn your cd like this its pretty much guaranteed to work.