Cd-rw

[Eliot_Ness_Ls]

Does the 2000 LS play CD-RW's? I searched and got mixed replies as well as searching other forums like afterdawn.com and they say it wont play them, they say that not to many if any cars today will.

 

[nearlyhalfamile]

I asked that question awhile ago and got about zero helpful responses. I tried an RW, but it wouldn't read it. Other brands might work, but given the cost of hunting down the brand that works, just buying cd-r might be cheaper.

 

[Eliot_Ness_Ls]

Thanks, I agree it would be cheaper but I got about 2 dozen Sony CD-RW's. Sony has worked for me before on other players that are very picky, I even used some to make back ups of some PS1 games and I used the Sony DVD-R as well as +R's for PS2 back ups.

Ill try Sony brand CD-R's tonight and see if they work.

Thanks.

 

[Beamer]

When I had mine it was weird, I had a bunch of burnt cd's and it would not play some, play others, than play the ones it did not play the first time, sometimes the quality would be crap than it just played anything I stuck in there.

 

[Eliot_Ness_Ls]

Yeah I had that happen with some other regular CD-R disks in my LS before, but I have seen that on other stereo equipment also.

 

[ToddG]

The manual express says NOT to use anything other than commercial music CDs. That means no CD-R or RW disks. The issue seems to be disk thickness -- the CD-R and RW disks are thinner and cannot be handled by the Lincoln audio equipment.

 

[Eliot_Ness_Ls]

But almost all my CD-R's work, the other few give me that working one minute and then not the next deal.

Also (I'm not sure if this matters) ToddG, keep in mind I have the 2000 with the 6 disk changer in the glove box and not the in dash changer.

I'm not seeing that as a possibility, companies such as Sony with the PS2 and PS3 along with Microsoft and the XBOX and XBOX 360 would use this method as an advantage to stop using Illegally copied material. They can in this case just use extra thick disk's but to combat that companies at the same time would make thicker disk's as well, for recording is legal if you own an original copy and are just useing the copied disk as a back up.

On another hand I can just see it beeing something not even thought of by the company that created the LS' stereo system to help stop Illegal usage of media.

What ever the case is I just guess the CD-RW's wont work from what I have been reading and putting together.

Thanks for a response Todd.

 

[gcwimmer]

The manual express says NOT to use anything other than commercial music CDs. That means no CD-R or RW disks. The issue seems to be disk thickness -- the CD-R and RW disks are thinner and cannot be handled by the Lincoln audio equipment.

Owners maual for 2004:

CD units are designed to play commercially pressed 12 cm (4.75
in) audio compact discs only. Due to technical incompatibility,
certain recordable and re-recordable compact discs may not
function correctly when used in Ford CD players. Irregular
shaped CDs, CDs with a scratch protection film attached, and CDs
with homemade paper (adhesive) labels should not be inserted
into the CD player. The label may peel and cause the CD to
become jammed. It is recommended that homemade CDs be
identified with permanent felt tip marker rather than adhesive
labels. Ball point pens may damage CDs. Please contact your
dealer for further information.

 

[04SCTLS]

The 6 disc player in my 04 LS plays cd-rs no problem but I don't use them any more. Went with an ipod interface due to the greatly increased song capacity.
Here's the 00-03 one.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/Linc...011QQitemZ320041864114QQrdZ1QQsspagenameZWD1V

I went with this one that displays text for my 04.
Ran the connecting cable into the glove box.
Works great. Makes the cds feel like yesterday's technology.

http://cgi.ebay.com/2004-2005-LINCO...ryZ58350QQrdZ1QQssPageNameZWD1VQQcmdZViewItem

 

[owlman]

I haven't had a problem with CD-Rs but can't get CD-RWs to play. It's not like CDRWs are this brand new technology that a $40k luxury car can't support...

 

[Eliot_Ness_Ls]

The whole thing with the manual saying not to us them is because of the load and eject functions "Jamming" the disk's with cheap labels.

I have the 6 disk magazine so I don't need to worry about that happening.

 

[jpd]

My Alpine plays the CD-Rs but not the RWs. With the CD-Rs I have to record them at a slower speed (10x) so they wont skip. If I record them too fast like 44x they will then to skip and we all know that suck lol.