Cardude

Hello all,

I ended up buying the 2005 Santa Fe 2.7 GLS AWD, and LOVE IT! All was
going peachy until I tried playing a MP3 disc. I inserted the disc
properly, as I would a normal CD audio disc. The display would show
the "READING" message and would freeze immediately thereafter. I
would not be able to eject the disc from the player using the eject
button. To remove the disc I had to pull and reinsert the fuse and
then press the eject button. Of course my presets were wiped out, but
I can reset those.

I re-copied the MP3 disc and reinserted it into the player. After a
few moments, the player would revert back to the radio, and the disc
would eject from the player on its own. I reinserted the disc and was
able to listen to the songs on the disc.

This morning, using the same disc that played before, I inserted the
disc into the player only to have it freeze again. I had to repeat
the steps of removing and reinserting the fuse in order to eject the
disc from the player. Since my presets were once again erased in this
operation, I inserted the MP3 disc to see if that would make a
difference. The freaking thing played!!! Now, I’m leaving it in
there until I leave the office for the day, and if it plays before I
start my drive home, it’ll remain in the player until I get home!!!

Is this problem normal? Have other people experienced this? HELP ME,
PLEASE!!!!!

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Zeppo

When did they start putting MP3 players in the Santa Fe?

When I was shopping for mine it was one of the options I really wanted. I
was willing to downgrade from the CD changer if it was available. All 3
dealers in my area (SE Pennsylvania) claimed it wasn't an option.

I got the 3.5 LX and the Monsoon sound system is OK. I figured I'll change
out to a after-market unit eventually.

Hope you figure out the problem with yours.

Jon


"Cardude" <UseLinkToEmail@AutoForumz.com> wrote in message
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> Hello all,
>
> I ended up buying the 2005 Santa Fe 2.7 GLS AWD, and LOVE IT! All was
> going peachy until I tried playing a MP3 disc. I inserted the disc
> properly, as I would a normal CD audio disc. The display would show
> the "READING" message and would freeze immediately thereafter. I
> would not be able to eject the disc from the player using the eject
> button. To remove the disc I had to pull and reinsert the fuse and
> then press the eject button. Of course my presets were wiped out, but
> I can reset those.
>
> I re-copied the MP3 disc and reinserted it into the player. After a
> few moments, the player would revert back to the radio, and the disc
> would eject from the player on its own. I reinserted the disc and was
> able to listen to the songs on the disc.
>
> This morning, using the same disc that played before, I inserted the
> disc into the player only to have it freeze again. I had to repeat
> the steps of removing and reinserting the fuse in order to eject the
> disc from the player. Since my presets were once again erased in this
> operation, I inserted the MP3 disc to see if that would make a
> difference. The freaking thing played!!! Now, I'm leaving it in
> there until I leave the office for the day, and if it plays before I
> start my drive home, it'll remain in the player until I get home!!!
>
> Is this problem normal? Have other people experienced this? HELP ME,
> PLEASE!!!!!
>
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hyundaitech

I think this was a new radio for 2005. I've had some freaky issues with
the older Monsoons-- enough that I'm not very happy with their
performance.

It's possible the issue is with either the cd or the radio. If it's
convenient, you could stop by the dealer and explain to them what's going
on. They'd probably be willing to try your disc in another vehicle with
the same radio to help determine whether the problem is with the radio or
the disc. Try to determine, if you haven't already, the percentage of
time it won't play. That'll help you figure out how many times to eject
and reinsert in the test vehicle at the dealer to be sure it plays
correctly all the time there.

Cardude

"" wrote:
> I think this was a new radio for 2005. I've had some freaky
> issues with
> the older Monsoons-- enough that I'm not very happy with their
> performance.
>
> It's possible the issue is with either the cd or the radio.
> If it's
> convenient, you could stop by the dealer and explain to them
> what's going
> on. They'd probably be willing to try your disc in another
> vehicle with
> the same radio to help determine whether the problem is with
> the radio or
> the disc. Try to determine, if you haven't already, the
> percentage of
> time it won't play. That'll help you figure out how many
> times to eject
> and reinsert in the test vehicle at the dealer to be sure it
> plays
> correctly all the time there.

Thanks for the tips. The disc played once after a lot of button
fiddling in the, approximately, five or six times I tried it. I tried
a different disc in the player and had the same problem, with zero
percentage playing time. Your idea about trying it in a different
vehicle is solid and hopefully will be the avenue the service tech
takes when diagnosing the problem at the dealership. Is it too much
to ask to have the stock unit swapped out for the upgraded model??
Thought so. Would my warranty be voided if I wished to replace the
stock radio with a unit purchased elsewhere?

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Zeppo

As this is an MP3 disc I assume you burned this yourself, right?

Is it possible you have inferior or defective media? Maybe try another brand
of CD to see if it plays. I installed an aftermarket Kenwood in my daughters
Taurus last year and had a heck of a time playing MP3s with the stack of
no-name CDs I had purchased at a computer show (and played fine in her
desktop computer). I burned some Rytek CD's I had at my place and they
played fine in her Kenwood.

HTH,
Jon

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> "" wrote:
> > I think this was a new radio for 2005. I've had some freaky
> > issues with
> > the older Monsoons-- enough that I'm not very happy with their
> > performance.
> >
> > It's possible the issue is with either the cd or the radio.
> > If it's
> > convenient, you could stop by the dealer and explain to them
> > what's going
> > on. They'd probably be willing to try your disc in another
> > vehicle with
> > the same radio to help determine whether the problem is with
> > the radio or
> > the disc. Try to determine, if you haven't already, the
> > percentage of
> > time it won't play. That'll help you figure out how many
> > times to eject
> > and reinsert in the test vehicle at the dealer to be sure it
> > plays
> > correctly all the time there.
>
> Thanks for the tips. The disc played once after a lot of button
> fiddling in the, approximately, five or six times I tried it. I tried
> a different disc in the player and had the same problem, with zero
> percentage playing time. Your idea about trying it in a different
> vehicle is solid and hopefully will be the avenue the service tech
> takes when diagnosing the problem at the dealership. Is it too much
> to ask to have the stock unit swapped out for the upgraded model??
> Thought so. Would my warranty be voided if I wished to replace the
> stock radio with a unit purchased elsewhere?
>
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hyundaitech

Unfortunately, Hyundai's radio repairs are by swapping with a
remanufactured unit. The dealer will need to return the same thing they
take out. If I recall correctly, the Monsoon is the "top of the line"
radio.

If you were to purchase a radio and have it installed, your warranty would
not cover the radio you've purchased nor any damage caused by the radio or
installation. It won't void the entire warranty on the vehicle.

Norm

What is the model number of your CD player?

Hint - it's in the Owners Manual.

Norm


"Cardude" <UseLinkToEmail@AutoForumz.com> wrote in message
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> Hello all,
>
> I ended up buying the 2005 Santa Fe 2.7 GLS AWD, and LOVE IT! All was
> going peachy until I tried playing a MP3 disc. I inserted the disc
> properly, as I would a normal CD audio disc. The display would show
> the "READING" message and would freeze immediately thereafter. I
> would not be able to eject the disc from the player using the eject
> button. To remove the disc I had to pull and reinsert the fuse and
> then press the eject button. Of course my presets were wiped out, but
> I can reset those.
>
> I re-copied the MP3 disc and reinserted it into the player. After a
> few moments, the player would revert back to the radio, and the disc
> would eject from the player on its own. I reinserted the disc and was
> able to listen to the songs on the disc.
>
> This morning, using the same disc that played before, I inserted the
> disc into the player only to have it freeze again. I had to repeat
> the steps of removing and reinserting the fuse in order to eject the
> disc from the player. Since my presets were once again erased in this
> operation, I inserted the MP3 disc to see if that would make a
> difference. The freaking thing played!!! Now, I'm leaving it in
> there until I leave the office for the day, and if it plays before I
> start my drive home, it'll remain in the player until I get home!!!
>
> Is this problem normal? Have other people experienced this? HELP ME,
> PLEASE!!!!!
>
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Richard Steinfeld

Cardude wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I ended up buying the 2005 Santa Fe 2.7 GLS AWD, and LOVE IT! All was
> going peachy until I tried playing a MP3 disc. I inserted the disc
> properly, as I would a normal CD audio disc. The display would show
> the "READING" message and would freeze immediately thereafter.

Since you said that this was an "MP3 disk," I'm going to assume that the
disk was not a commercially-pressed CD but, in fact, a CD that you'd
burned on your computer. Yes?

In other words, you'd burned a CD using MP3 compression.

I recently was testing out the factory stereo in my used 2000 Sonata. My
test disks were Sonys that I'd burned myself. There were skips in
certain places.

I then experienced much more severe skipping on the same CDs in an RCA
CD/alarm clock with a cheap CD drive. The bottom line is that the Sony
blank CDR disks were defective -- way off physical tolerance. So far off
that I can see them wobbling wildly in the transparent RCA drive.

Re-burning the same material on good known disks (no-nonesense
professional-grade disks made by Taiyo Yuden) the problem was solved on
the clock radio. I'll try the same solution for the Hyundai car stereo.

When it comes to blank CDRs, I've discovered that the brand name on the
package is rarely the name of the actual manufacturer. In the case of
the bad Sony disks -- these were actually made by Sony themselves. The
Sony disks that I have that were made by another firm were actually
better. Some burning programs have a utility mode that reveals the
encoded true factory; that's how I know. In fact, I discovered Fuji
disks that I have made by three different makers -- none of them Fuji.
It seems that these jokers almost buy their disks on the spot market.

As with so many things, there's a lot of hype. And car stereo is so
liberally larded with fat that it drips grease like an old-fashioned
pastrami sandwich from a lower-east-side NYC deli. My questionable Sony
disks, in fact, are made with the best long-life optical chemistry.
However, all the excellence of the chemistry doesn't make up for lousy
manufacturing tolerances or out-to-lunch quality control. I'll take a
slightly shorter-lived product any day in return for reliability.

So, before you start haggling about a defective stereo, I recommend that
you try a variety of disks. Note that when it comes to poor playback,
the good home-component-grade mechanisms (and my professional-pedigree
Plextor writer) do a much better job of playing funky disks than do
marginal CD drives (such as the ubiquitous cheap CD drives without disk
clamps)and what I'm begining to suspect are sub-standard mechanisms in
many car stereo products.

Note: because of the age of this thread, I may decide to repost this to
begin a new thread with it.

Please let's have some feedback here: what are peoples' experiences with
CD skipping in their car stereos? What types of disks are better or
worse in this regard?

Richard

Jody

maybye the person was trying to use a rw disc also?
maybye they dont play in the car stereos??
i have good luuck with memorex discs...
"Richard Steinfeld" <rgsteinBUTREMOVETHIS@sonic.net> wrote in message
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> Cardude wrote:
>> Hello all,
>>
>> I ended up buying the 2005 Santa Fe 2.7 GLS AWD, and LOVE IT! All was
>> going peachy until I tried playing a MP3 disc. I inserted the disc
>> properly, as I would a normal CD audio disc. The display would show
>> the "READING" message and would freeze immediately thereafter.
>
> Since you said that this was an "MP3 disk," I'm going to assume that the
> disk was not a commercially-pressed CD but, in fact, a CD that you'd
> burned on your computer. Yes?
>
> In other words, you'd burned a CD using MP3 compression.
>
> I recently was testing out the factory stereo in my used 2000 Sonata. My
> test disks were Sonys that I'd burned myself. There were skips in certain
> places.
>
> I then experienced much more severe skipping on the same CDs in an RCA
> CD/alarm clock with a cheap CD drive. The bottom line is that the Sony
> blank CDR disks were defective -- way off physical tolerance. So far off
> that I can see them wobbling wildly in the transparent RCA drive.
>
> Re-burning the same material on good known disks (no-nonesense
> professional-grade disks made by Taiyo Yuden) the problem was solved on
> the clock radio. I'll try the same solution for the Hyundai car stereo.
>
> When it comes to blank CDRs, I've discovered that the brand name on the
> package is rarely the name of the actual manufacturer. In the case of the
> bad Sony disks -- these were actually made by Sony themselves. The Sony
> disks that I have that were made by another firm were actually better.
> Some burning programs have a utility mode that reveals the encoded true
> factory; that's how I know. In fact, I discovered Fuji disks that I have
> made by three different makers -- none of them Fuji. It seems that these
> jokers almost buy their disks on the spot market.
>
> As with so many things, there's a lot of hype. And car stereo is so
> liberally larded with fat that it drips grease like an old-fashioned
> pastrami sandwich from a lower-east-side NYC deli. My questionable Sony
> disks, in fact, are made with the best long-life optical chemistry.
> However, all the excellence of the chemistry doesn't make up for lousy
> manufacturing tolerances or out-to-lunch quality control. I'll take a
> slightly shorter-lived product any day in return for reliability.
>
> So, before you start haggling about a defective stereo, I recommend that
> you try a variety of disks. Note that when it comes to poor playback, the
> good home-component-grade mechanisms (and my professional-pedigree Plextor
> writer) do a much better job of playing funky disks than do marginal CD
> drives (such as the ubiquitous cheap CD drives without disk clamps)and
> what I'm begining to suspect are sub-standard mechanisms in many car
> stereo products.
>
> Note: because of the age of this thread, I may decide to repost this to
> begin a new thread with it.
>
> Please let's have some feedback here: what are peoples' experiences with
> CD skipping in their car stereos? What types of disks are better or worse
> in this regard?
>
> Richard

Dances With Crows

On Thu, 21 Jul 2005 13:10:35 -0700, Richard Steinfeld said:
> Cardude wrote:
>> I ended up buying the 2005 Santa Fe 2.7 GLS AWD, and LOVE IT! All
>> was going peachy until I tried playing a MP3 disc. I inserted the
>> disc properly, as I would a normal CD audio disc. The display would
>> show the "READING" message and would freeze immediately thereafter.
> Since you said that this was an "MP3 disk," I'm going to assume that
> the disk was not a commercially-pressed CD but, in fact, a CD that
> you'd burned on your computer. Yes? In other words, you'd burned a CD
> using MP3 compression.

I doubt that. What Cardude probably did was "convert mp3 -> 44100 Hz
16-bit PCM stereo ; write resulting PCM data to CD-R in Red Book
format." PCM generated from mp3 has artifacts, sure, but most people
don't notice them if the person who encoded the mp3 used a decent
bitrate.

You can burn mp3 files to an ISO9660+Joliet CD, but CDDA-only players
won't play those. Cardude didn't specify what exactly he'd done, but he
may not have known the many different ways you can burn data to a CD or
the appropriate terms to describe those ways. *shrug*.

> The bottom line is that the Sony blank CDR disks were defective -- way
> off physical tolerance. Re-burning the same material on good known
> disks (no-nonesense professional-grade disks made by Taiyo Yuden) the
> problem was solved on the clock radio.

Sometimes, the medium is the muckup.

> When it comes to blank CDRs, I've discovered that the brand name on
> the package is rarely the name of the actual manufacturer. Some
> burning programs have a utility mode that reveals the encoded true
> factory;

"cdrecord -atip" does that for free, although Joerg Schilling says that
the manufacturer data may not be totally accurate since the Orange Book
people want money for the latest manufacturer codes.

> In fact, I discovered Fuji disks that I have made by three different
> makers -- none of them Fuji. It seems that these jokers almost buy
> their disks on the spot market.

They probably do. Hey, end-users will buy junk because it's 10% cheaper
than mostly-working stuff. Never buy the cheapest possible thing; the
hassle when it breaks is usually not worth it. Spend a little more and
get slightly better quality.

> So, before you start haggling about a defective stereo, I recommend
> that you try a variety of disks. Note that when it comes to poor
> playback, the good home-component-grade mechanisms (and my
> professional-pedigree Plextor writer) do a much better job of playing
> funky disks than do marginal CD drives

True enough. Plextor = rock, and their CD-RWs are fairly cheap now.

> Please let's have some feedback here: what are peoples' experiences
> with CD skipping in their car stereos? What types of disks are better
> or worse in this regard?

The CD skips I get occasionally in my Tiburon are almost entirely due to
potholes or very cold weather. (For some reason, it skips if the
temperature in the cabin is below about 40 F.) I've got a bunch of
audio CDs burned according to the Red Book, on media from many different
manufacturers, burned with a variety of CD-RW drives. I've had zero
problems with the ones that were stored properly and not stepped on.
The first audio CD I ever burned (early 2000, with a Philips 4x CD-RW
and mid-grade media) is still playable. HTH,

--
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Norm

"Dances With Crows" <danSPANceswitTRAPhcrows@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> On Thu, 21 Jul 2005 13:10:35 -0700, Richard Steinfeld said:
> > Cardude wrote:
> >> I ended up buying the 2005 Santa Fe 2.7 GLS AWD, and LOVE IT! All
> >> was going peachy until I tried playing a MP3 disc. I inserted the
> >> disc properly, as I would a normal CD audio disc. The display would
> >> show the "READING" message and would freeze immediately thereafter.
> > Since you said that this was an "MP3 disk," I'm going to assume that
> > the disk was not a commercially-pressed CD but, in fact, a CD that
> > you'd burned on your computer. Yes? In other words, you'd burned a CD
> > using MP3 compression.
>
> I doubt that. What Cardude probably did was "convert mp3 -> 44100 Hz
> 16-bit PCM stereo ; write resulting PCM data to CD-R in Red Book
> format." PCM generated from mp3 has artifacts, sure, but most people
> don't notice them if the person who encoded the mp3 used a decent
> bitrate.
>
> You can burn mp3 files to an ISO9660+Joliet CD, but CDDA-only players
> won't play those. Cardude didn't specify what exactly he'd done, but he
> may not have known the many different ways you can burn data to a CD or
> the appropriate terms to describe those ways. *shrug*.
>
> > The bottom line is that the Sony blank CDR disks were defective -- way
> > off physical tolerance. Re-burning the same material on good known
> > disks (no-nonesense professional-grade disks made by Taiyo Yuden) the
> > problem was solved on the clock radio.
>
> Sometimes, the medium is the muckup.
>
> > When it comes to blank CDRs, I've discovered that the brand name on
> > the package is rarely the name of the actual manufacturer. Some
> > burning programs have a utility mode that reveals the encoded true
> > factory;
>
> "cdrecord -atip" does that for free, although Joerg Schilling says that
> the manufacturer data may not be totally accurate since the Orange Book
> people want money for the latest manufacturer codes.
>
> > In fact, I discovered Fuji disks that I have made by three different
> > makers -- none of them Fuji. It seems that these jokers almost buy
> > their disks on the spot market.
>
> They probably do. Hey, end-users will buy junk because it's 10% cheaper
> than mostly-working stuff. Never buy the cheapest possible thing; the
> hassle when it breaks is usually not worth it. Spend a little more and
> get slightly better quality.
>
> > So, before you start haggling about a defective stereo, I recommend
> > that you try a variety of disks. Note that when it comes to poor
> > playback, the good home-component-grade mechanisms (and my
> > professional-pedigree Plextor writer) do a much better job of playing
> > funky disks than do marginal CD drives
>
> True enough. Plextor = rock, and their CD-RWs are fairly cheap now.
>
> > Please let's have some feedback here: what are peoples' experiences
> > with CD skipping in their car stereos? What types of disks are better
> > or worse in this regard?
>
> The CD skips I get occasionally in my Tiburon are almost entirely due to
> potholes or very cold weather. (For some reason, it skips if the
> temperature in the cabin is below about 40 F.) I've got a bunch of
> audio CDs burned according to the Red Book, on media from many different
> manufacturers, burned with a variety of CD-RW drives. I've had zero
> problems with the ones that were stored properly and not stepped on.
> The first audio CD I ever burned (early 2000, with a Philips 4x CD-RW
> and mid-grade media) is still playable. HTH,
>
> --
> This .sig removed because Richard Steinfeld hates .signatures.

Now I'm confused.

Let's restate (for the record). An earlier poster "claimed" that the Monsoon
System in his/her
new Santa Fe played MP3 discs.

I have been unable to verify this.

Anyone care to chime in??

Norm

Krazy Kanuck

my stereo in my '05 plays MP3 discs fine (and WMA too)
Len

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>
> "Dances With Crows" <danSPANceswitTRAPhcrows@gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:slrnde03lv.d1g.danSPANceswitTRAPhcrows@samant ha.crow202.dyndns.org...
>> On Thu, 21 Jul 2005 13:10:35 -0700, Richard Steinfeld said:
>> > Cardude wrote:
>> >> I ended up buying the 2005 Santa Fe 2.7 GLS AWD, and LOVE IT! All
>> >> was going peachy until I tried playing a MP3 disc. I inserted the
>> >> disc properly, as I would a normal CD audio disc. The display would
>> >> show the "READING" message and would freeze immediately thereafter.
>> > Since you said that this was an "MP3 disk," I'm going to assume that
>> > the disk was not a commercially-pressed CD but, in fact, a CD that
>> > you'd burned on your computer. Yes? In other words, you'd burned a CD
>> > using MP3 compression.
>>
>> I doubt that. What Cardude probably did was "convert mp3 -> 44100 Hz
>> 16-bit PCM stereo ; write resulting PCM data to CD-R in Red Book
>> format." PCM generated from mp3 has artifacts, sure, but most people
>> don't notice them if the person who encoded the mp3 used a decent
>> bitrate.
>>
>> You can burn mp3 files to an ISO9660+Joliet CD, but CDDA-only players
>> won't play those. Cardude didn't specify what exactly he'd done, but he
>> may not have known the many different ways you can burn data to a CD or
>> the appropriate terms to describe those ways. *shrug*.
>>
>> > The bottom line is that the Sony blank CDR disks were defective -- way
>> > off physical tolerance. Re-burning the same material on good known
>> > disks (no-nonesense professional-grade disks made by Taiyo Yuden) the
>> > problem was solved on the clock radio.
>>
>> Sometimes, the medium is the muckup.
>>
>> > When it comes to blank CDRs, I've discovered that the brand name on
>> > the package is rarely the name of the actual manufacturer. Some
>> > burning programs have a utility mode that reveals the encoded true
>> > factory;
>>
>> "cdrecord -atip" does that for free, although Joerg Schilling says that
>> the manufacturer data may not be totally accurate since the Orange Book
>> people want money for the latest manufacturer codes.
>>
>> > In fact, I discovered Fuji disks that I have made by three different
>> > makers -- none of them Fuji. It seems that these jokers almost buy
>> > their disks on the spot market.
>>
>> They probably do. Hey, end-users will buy junk because it's 10% cheaper
>> than mostly-working stuff. Never buy the cheapest possible thing; the
>> hassle when it breaks is usually not worth it. Spend a little more and
>> get slightly better quality.
>>
>> > So, before you start haggling about a defective stereo, I recommend
>> > that you try a variety of disks. Note that when it comes to poor
>> > playback, the good home-component-grade mechanisms (and my
>> > professional-pedigree Plextor writer) do a much better job of playing
>> > funky disks than do marginal CD drives
>>
>> True enough. Plextor = rock, and their CD-RWs are fairly cheap now.
>>
>> > Please let's have some feedback here: what are peoples' experiences
>> > with CD skipping in their car stereos? What types of disks are better
>> > or worse in this regard?
>>
>> The CD skips I get occasionally in my Tiburon are almost entirely due to
>> potholes or very cold weather. (For some reason, it skips if the
>> temperature in the cabin is below about 40 F.) I've got a bunch of
>> audio CDs burned according to the Red Book, on media from many different
>> manufacturers, burned with a variety of CD-RW drives. I've had zero
>> problems with the ones that were stored properly and not stepped on.
>> The first audio CD I ever burned (early 2000, with a Philips 4x CD-RW
>> and mid-grade media) is still playable. HTH,
>>
>> --
>> This .sig removed because Richard Steinfeld hates .signatures.
>
> Now I'm confused.
>
> Let's restate (for the record). An earlier poster "claimed" that the
> Monsoon
> System in his/her
> new Santa Fe played MP3 discs.
>
> I have been unable to verify this.
>
> Anyone care to chime in??
>
> Norm
>
>

Vidsling

I just picked up my new 2005 Santa Fe 2.7 GLS this past Friday. The CD in
the standard stereo does not play MP3s. The stereo in the new Tucson,
however, does play MP3s



"Cardude" <UseLinkToEmail@AutoForumz.com> wrote in message
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> Hello all,
>
> I ended up buying the 2005 Santa Fe 2.7 GLS AWD, and LOVE IT! All was
> going peachy until I tried playing a MP3 disc. I inserted the disc
> properly, as I would a normal CD audio disc. The display would show
> the "READING" message and would freeze immediately thereafter. I
> would not be able to eject the disc from the player using the eject
> button. To remove the disc I had to pull and reinsert the fuse and
> then press the eject button. Of course my presets were wiped out, but
> I can reset those.
>
> I re-copied the MP3 disc and reinserted it into the player. After a
> few moments, the player would revert back to the radio, and the disc
> would eject from the player on its own. I reinserted the disc and was
> able to listen to the songs on the disc.
>
> This morning, using the same disc that played before, I inserted the
> disc into the player only to have it freeze again. I had to repeat
> the steps of removing and reinserting the fuse in order to eject the
> disc from the player. Since my presets were once again erased in this
> operation, I inserted the MP3 disc to see if that would make a
> difference. The freaking thing played!!! Now, I'm leaving it in
> there until I leave the office for the day, and if it plays before I
> start my drive home, it'll remain in the player until I get home!!!
>
> Is this problem normal? Have other people experienced this? HELP ME,
> PLEASE!!!!!
>
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