I want to load my CDs onto this device. I want to be able to find the CD title & play the CD with the track order played back numerically (NOT alphabetically). I bought a Sandisk & then read lots of reviews saying it can't keep an album's track order correct so I'll buy this instead if I know it will KEEP THE SONGS IN ORDER. So, does it playback numerically or alphabetically? I want to load my CDs onto this device. I want to be able to find the CD title & play the CD with the track order played back numerically (NOT alphabetically). I bought a Sandisk & then... » Read More I want to load my CDs onto this device. I want to be able to find the CD title & play the CD with the track order played back numerically (NOT alphabetically). I bought a Sandisk & then read lots of reviews saying it can't keep an album's track order correct so I'll buy this instead if I know it will KEEP THE SONGS IN ORDER. So, does it playback numerically or alphabetically? « Show Less
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I am running Windows XP and after ripping the CD to an MP3 file, I check the 'PROPERTIES' of each song and in the Advanced tab you can check the song's name, artist and album name and its relative position in the playlist. I then transferred the folder named the same as the CD onto this SONY. During playback, you have the option of a) playing all songs by name in alphabetical order regardless of the album or artist, b) by album name or c) by artist name.
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The reason people had issues with the Sandisk is because of the people ripping the cd's sans common sense. When you rip cd's, if it doesnt automatically number the songs, just add it to the file names. 01_songname, 02_songname.
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If you are listening with headphones you can organize it any way you want to. On my car MP3 player it only works playing CDs alphabetically using the artist's first name (The Beatles, The Band, would be in the T's). It does play each CD track numerically.
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uh I have 2 different Sandisks.... if you're not stupid with PC's and know how to edit music files and keep things organized in Windows Media Player, just copy/paste your "My Music" folder right from your computer to the mp3 player and it'll be in the same order....... >.> If things are out of order you need to edit the mp3 tags
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I looked at settings... it has play in order or shuffle the order about... there is a alphabetical list of all songs loaded ... you can also make a playlist... up to you
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I put my ipod on shuffle and just hit next and it doesn't play the next song in order. You can still hit next when the head unit is in ipod control mode, so there's really no reason to put it in head unit control mode
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I believe it shuffles the five cds in random order. I have never tried it so I do not know if it then shuffles the individual tracks within the cd. There is a function to shuffle the current cd tracks but not all of the cds. So, you can try it and see if it also shuffles the individual tracks too but I think that it is one or the other. I'll have to try it sometime to see for myself!
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Do you know if this unit plays cd, cd-r. cd-rw? I have made most of my cd's and need a player that will play all them. Also, do I need to buy anything else other than this CS-325 to play my cd's? Thanks for your help.
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This is not the model I have , however I do have several different and they all show up as a drive , If it is not showing up the go to your system file and find your drives. Usually. C : D as your cd. And so on Then plug the unit in it will refresh and you will see the drive There will be a read me file with directions The procedure is pretty generic pull up your music files. Select drag and drop into the unit . Think of it as just a thumb drive . I hope this helps
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Is there anyone who can answer alpinecow's question? Also, I heard that the Sandisk Sansa will not play chapters in proper order. Is this still the case?
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No it does not. And I hate that so much. I don't think it wouldn't be too hard to have that feature which is sooo useful for users (at least for me :-) ). Especially when you have an mp3 CD with lots of songs on it. It starts from track 1 every time you start it.
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I think there might be a shuffle setting but it is very difficult to see the name of the songs. Whatever order you have your songs listed in a folder, is the order that they play. I found the interface difficult to navigate. I bought this for my 3yr old and decided to return it.
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In my experience, it plays the tracks in the order they were added to the device. Once the last track has played, it starts over again at the first track you added. Additionally, you can turn on shuffle play so that they play in a random order.
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The songs play in the order they are sorted in your music folder on your computer. I sort my list alphabetically by right clicking on the screen of the folder, then I go to "Sort By", and finally click "Name" and "Ascending". This makes it easier to find the songs. If you turn off the MP3 player, it doesn't return to the previous point or beginning, instead when you turn it back on it oddly goes to the half way point of the song (Like 2:00 minutes of a 4:00 minute song).
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It is my understanding that you must convert the CD to an mp3 format. And then you have to get it into I Tunes. Do yourself a favor.....buy a Phillips mp3 player and then loading tunes from anywhere (and most formats.
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Yes, you can play a CD & record it to a USB flash drive. I have all of my CD's on flash drives, which I downloaded from my computer. I simply choose a flash drive & play it back in the Teac in the shuffle mode, which is what I used to do with my old Sony 400 CD player. This is far superior in both sound quality and convenience.
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Help - anybody. I bought an 8gB i Pod so I could copy music to my hard drive using i Tunes and then copy to the i Pod, so that i could listen to my music, already bought and paid for.When i Tunes captures the CD, if it shows the title and all the names of the tracks I can successfully get it onto the i pod. But if it simply shows eg. 10 tracks with no artist or track names it will not copy to the hard drive.Question: are some CDs copyright protected in some way? If they are it seems a shame as all I want to do is play the music on a different medium
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It will shuffle all the songs on the CD till they are all played then it will shift to the next CD in sequence.That is what I am disappointed in as I would like all my music shuffled from different CD's'. Hope that is helpful.Colleen
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The manual states: "Please use CD, CD-R and CR-RW discs bearing the 'DIGITALAUDIO' mark." It also states: "Depending on the quality of the disc and/or the condition of the recording, some CD-R or CD-RW discs may not be playable." and that "an audio CD created using a CD-RW disc may not play back satisfactorily on every audio CD player." I had difficulty with consistent play back of CDs I recorded - i.e., some played fine anywhere, and some would play on the TEAC and/or my computer, but not in the car and another time the same disc would not play on the TEAC. Sometimes they would play the first track (side one of a vinyl record) and not the second track (side 2 of the record). This was quite frustrating because I was wasting discs (since they can't be re-recorded). I then got some RW discs and still had problems. When I called TEAC, I was told the discs were most likely the cause of problem and that low cost generic discs were usually the culprit - I said I was using Maxell CD-R music discs and TDK CD-RW audio discs! He suggested using Sony. I have now recorded a few on Sony discs and had no playback problems - but that may be the luck of the draw since at least 2 Maxells also worked (and still work) fine.
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I use a 16gb flash drive but I always use random play--sometimes it freezes when loading--but if I switch to cd then back to usb-it seems to always work fine. I've had no problems with sony or Philips mp3 devices--just seems to lock up when first reading flash drives--it is a little slow at reading files before it begins playing--I'd say about a minute delay-not a problem. Display information depends on what is available on flash drive--ir title artist album are provided it will display them--though you have to turn on the display by using the remote 'display" button or it just gives numeric info
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Not much, I put it on my Ipod and it was like any other playlist. However, when I transferred it - from my computer to ipod, all the tracks had weird blips so I listened to the CDs instead. Not sure if it was my computer (it was old) or the actual CDs as it says you can transfer them no problem. I tried it twice and it always had the same problem. I think you can buy the MP3s directly on the website, so might do that to avoid any frustration with a good transfer. Or go to radio shack for a portable CD player =)