2009 Maxima - Someone PLEASE help

[JeansandHighHeels]

I'm so frustrated with the music system/set up. I bought a 16g CF card and a Belkin Multimedia Card reader/writer because my laptop doesn't have a CF card reader. (CF is sort of old technology if you ask me.) Then I read that it was basically a waste because I can only put 512 files on the card anyway. Whatever, I'll get over it. I downloaded my music, put it in and it says "Card Read Error". I research some more and figure it out. THEN I download WinFF to convert my WMA files to MP3. I convert them, put them on the CF card and put it in the car. The files show up but half of them don't play at all, the other half sound INSANE and play in 2 seconds flat.

Someone PLEASE tell me what's up. I tried converting them to WAV files and again it gives me a "Card Read Error" message. I'm not up for investing in a brand new iPod - I have a 2nd gen that works just fine and I'm saving for a house. I'm so frustrated.

[MinisterofDOOM]

I wish Nissan would be more clear about the CF system's limitations to customers. You're not the only person to run into this issue.

The problem lies in the CF format, which is a horrible and utterly baffling choice for portable flash media these days. The reader in the car can only recognize cards up to 2GB and, on cards over 2GB in capacity, they'll only recognize the "first" 2GB. So anything beyond that is "lost" and you run into other issues like your weird playback.

Try keeping the total data on the card under 2GB and see if things improve. If they don't, you may need to pick up a lower-capacity CF card. If that doesn't solve the problem, there may be an issue with the reader itself.

[JeansandHighHeels]

I wish Nissan would be more clear about the CF system's limitations to customers. You're not the only person to run into this issue.

The problem lies in the CF format, which is a horrible and utterly baffling choice for portable flash media these days. The reader in the car can only recognize cards up to 2GB and, on cards over 2GB in capacity, they'll only recognize the "first" 2GB. So anything beyond that is "lost" and you run into other issues like your weird playback.

Try keeping the total data on the card under 2GB and see if things improve. If they don't, you may need to pick up a lower-capacity CF card. If that doesn't solve the problem, there may be an issue with the reader itself.

Thanks for your response. Unfortunately I only put 1 album (about 17 songs) on there to see if it works because I've had to keep going back and reformatting and such. So it's definitely not that I'm going over the limit. Any other suggestions on why the MP3 format isn't playing?