Craigster05

My NAV unit is having problems skipping or jumping to the next song on MP3 disks only, regardless of brand, encoding or burn. The same cds that skip in my NAV unit play fine in the non-NAV players. Regular music cds play fine. My car is an 06 built in February. Only coincidence I can see, is it seems to happen much more frequently if the NAV dvd is in.

Has anyone seen anything similar?

TheKomoman

Yeah, I've seen/heard this too, though it is strictly moving on to the next track, not skipping within the song. I haven't messed with it yet, but I remember seeing in the big thread in General about buring CD's for it that you needed to use a certain style of MP3 tag/iden or the unit gets "confused." I'll have to go back and see if I can dig that up.

TheKomoman

OK, that didn't take long.

From this thread:

http://forums.corvetteforum.com/show...46&postcount=1

Craigster05

Thanks, but that is not it. Everything is fine with the tags, format, media. The discs play fine in other c6s, just not in mine. It seems to happen most when the NAV dvd is working at the same time. I have an older NAV dvd version, Im wondering if that has something to do with it.

TheKomoman

I've lost track at this point... I know there was a newer firmware for the NAV system, but that might have been the one in order to play MP3's at all, which then obviously you have it. Or I may be getting the base model radio mixed up. I think there were some CD images out there for the firmware if you still have the original version.

Sorry I couldn't help out more than that.

Craigster05

Thanks for trying, I appreciate it.

My luck, its going to be a dealer issue...

DPG

try going to the dealer and having them replace your headunit with a newer one

Craigster05

Fixed!!! Found by accident...

Believe it or not, it was the NAV DVD casuing the issue. I dont use the NAV all that much, but last night I tried to use it, and it was acting funny. I couldnt change routes, if I veered off the programed route, it didnt automatically recalculate the way it should. I tried to eject the dvd and it took about 5 min, but finally came out. There was a small dimple in the dvd that must have been causing read errors.

With the DVD out of the player,the MP3 cds no longer skip or jump songs. I guess there must be something in the chipset of the player where one drive malfunctioning can affect the other. That might also explain why my discs were working in a friends non-nav c6. I played 3 different MP3 cds over 4 hours between yesterday and today with no problems. I put the NAV dvd back in, the player started to skip again. I removed it, and I put in a backup copy of a NAV dvd that I burnt when I first got the car, and now all seems well.

Weird...but what the heck, it works fine now. Hope this helps someone else from banging there head like I did.

c152pilot

I have been having the same problem with my 2006 NAV system. Thanks for solving the problem : )

vette4jr

I have found that CDs with MP3s burned on to them using the recommended method work fine when the Navigation mode is off/not active. however, once you hit the "Agree" button to activate Navigation, if you are playing CDs with MP3s on them, in about 15-20 minutes, the song will stop after about 2 minutes into that song....and go to the next song.

It seems that using navigation mode causes the firmware or chipset to not operate correctly. If you open up the NAV screen when MP3s are playing, and Navigation active, the back side of the unit will feel extremely hot! Hotter than any other combination of modes of NAV / music.

i'm guessing the chipset is getting too hot, and the heat buildup is causing a hardware issue that results in this behavior.