the stock cd player in my 00 accord will not play a burned CD 99% of the time. Has this happened to anyone else??

 

Yes, stock deck sucks donkey *****.

 

I play burned CD's all the time, I just use quality media like verbatim

 

or nero

 

be sure the cd is finalized too.

 

Use name-brand CD-Rs, and burn at a slow rate (say, 16x at the most).

Some other alternatives:

Spend $250 on a very nice MP3 playing Alpine radio.
Spend ~ $100 on an OK CD player from Best Buy or Circuit City.
Spend ~ $75 on ebay for a used Alpine radio (older model, for example my CDA 7839 from 1999 plays my CD-Rs just fine)
Put in a trunk mounted CD changer and hook it up to your OEM radio (you can hook up an Alpine CD changer to your OEM radio since your OEM radio was made by Alpine - think of it as a low-end Alpine).

 

thanks for the heads up everyone, I will look into some good quality cds first

Thanks!

 

I would jsut get a better deck, I have not been able to ever play burned cd's reliably on stock honda decksfrom that time frame. In my wifes 99 lude they would sometimes work and sometimes not, so it was a reliefe whent he lighting and LED on teh deck went out and we got an Alpine dekc that has much better sound quality, plays MP3s (meaning now we got 100+ songs per cd) and also works with a Sirius or XM receiver. I think we paid around $175 for it.

 

never had trouble playing burned cds on stock head unit... or anything for that matter, old cd-walkmans (who has those anyway, besides me?) and 10 year old cd player in the garage...

 

On the lower right of the face plate there are some little numbers, they will let you know if it is an mp3 compatible unit. I think a number starting with 2 means new CD's only. Ya gotta keep the recording studios in business, right?

 

Also make sure the files are converted to CDA type or equivalent.