****, sony

[pannayar 10+ year member]

Bought a sony cdx-gt620ip. I am not a ipod guy but regular mp3/wma CDs.

There are quite a few good things about this unit, but holy crap I just discovered that it has a limitation of around 300 (file + folder names, including all intermediate folders that may not have any songs - like artist/thisfolder/song). I used to get about 300 songs at 64 kbps WMA (which is still ok for car environment) on a regular CD and my older alpine used to deal with it like a charm... but now only 150 of them are read in by the sony, sometimes it really gets on the nerves when great companies design some stupid limitations like this.

It is annoying when the CD has the capacity to hold that many songs, but the player cannot, handle, May have to resort to putting all files in a folder or something like that.

Moreover the manual says the number 300 will be reduced if you have file/folder names that are longer. Why in the world cant they have a bigger buffer inside to hold more file/folder names?! Sony, at some places you really ****.

Had to vent it out!

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[tEh koRnDog 5,000+ posts]

baahahahah

xplods

 

[skittlesRgood 10+ year member]

Bought a sony cdx-gt620ip. I am not a ipod guy but regular mp3/wma CDs.
There are quite a few good things about this unit, but holy crap I just discovered that it has a limitation of around 300 (file + folder names, including all intermediate folders that may not have any songs - like artist/thisfolder/song). I used to get about 300 songs at 64 kbps WMA (which is still ok for car environment) on a regular CD and my older alpine used to deal with it like a charm... but now only 150 of them are read in by the sony, sometimes it really gets on the nerves when great companies design some stupid limitations like this.

It is annoying when the CD has the capacity to hold that many songs, but the player cannot, handle, May have to resort to putting all files in a folder or something like that.

Moreover the manual says the number 300 will be reduced if you have file/folder names that are longer. Why in the world cant they have a bigger buffer inside to hold more file/folder names?! Sony, at some places you really ****.

Had to vent it out!

DUUUHHHH dude sony sucks on everything car audio. sell that bish b4 it breaks.

 

[AllDayMJ 10+ year member]

get=pay for.

 

[Linkz 10+ year member]

I use on of the CDx HUs. Shit sucks. But, it gets the job done. I gave up with the mp3 cd's to much trouble. I just use my ipod.

 

[joetama 5,000+ posts]

300 songs at 64 kbps?

Wow, you are a major fan of quality eh?

 

[joetama 5,000+ posts]

Also, how is this Sony's fault?

That would be like me being pissed at Buick for not putting a big enough gas tank in my car because I wanted to drive 100000 miles on super crappy gasoline.

 

[pannayar 10+ year member]

No Mr audiophile, it is like your Buick letting you carry only 2 big fat guys but cannot handle 4 slim guys.

 

[joetama 5,000+ posts]

LOL. I like you example there. Creative.

I do see you point, it is always frustrating when a product doesn't do what you want it to do. However, it would be a simple fix to burn 2 CD with half as many songs at 2x the quality. You would have to carry around 2 CDs but that is only 15g and 1.2 mm more. I don't think that is a big deal.

 

[Lil Poot 5,000+ posts]

64kbps??!!! wtf, i can't even stand a 128...

 

[mtlhead 10+ year member]

64kbps? really? why not just ride around listening to old vinyls?

 

[Buck 5,000+ posts]

I like my sony.

JK

 

[bubbagumper6 5,000+ posts]

psh I bought a flip out Clarion DVD player and it can only read 500 songs...do you know how many MP3's I could fit on a dvd???? But it will only read 500...epic ****ing fail

 

[GAM3OVR 5,000+ posts]

64kbps?

Who cares about signal to noise ratio right?

 

[mtlhead 10+ year member]

64kbps?
Who cares about signal to noise ratio right?

you mean noise to signal ratio