05 Santa Fe CD/MP3 Player Malfunction?

Hello all,

I ended up buying the 2005 Santa Fe 2.7 GLS AWD, and LOVE IT! All was
going peachy until I tried playing a MP3 disc. I inserted the disc
properly, as I would a normal CD audio disc. The display would show
the "READING" message and would freeze immediately thereafter. I
would not be able to eject the disc from the player using the eject
button. To remove the disc I had to pull and reinsert the fuse and
then press the eject button. Of course my presets were wiped out, but
I can reset those.

I re-copied the MP3 disc and reinserted it into the player. After a
few moments, the player would revert back to the radio, and the disc
would eject from the player on its own. I reinserted the disc and was
able to listen to the songs on the disc.

This morning, using the same disc that played before, I inserted the
disc into the player only to have it freeze again. I had to repeat
the steps of removing and reinserting the fuse in order to eject the
disc from the player. Since my presets were once again erased in this
operation, I inserted the MP3 disc to see if that would make a
difference. The freaking thing played!!! Now, I’m leaving it in
there until I leave the office for the day, and if it plays before I
start my drive home, it’ll remain in the player until I get home!!!

Is this problem normal? Have other people experienced this? HELP ME,
PLEASE!!!!!

 

When did they start putting MP3 players in the Santa Fe?

When I was shopping for mine it was one of the options I really wanted. I
was willing to downgrade from the CD changer if it was available. All 3
dealers in my area (SE Pennsylvania) claimed it wasn't an option.

I got the 3.5 LX and the Monsoon sound system is OK. I figured I'll change
out to a after-market unit eventually.

Hope you figure out the problem with yours.

Jon

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I think this was a new radio for 2005. I've had some freaky issues with
the older Monsoons-- enough that I'm not very happy with their
performance.

It's possible the issue is with either the cd or the radio. If it's
convenient, you could stop by the dealer and explain to them what's going
on. They'd probably be willing to try your disc in another vehicle with
the same radio to help determine whether the problem is with the radio or
the disc. Try to determine, if you haven't already, the percentage of
time it won't play. That'll help you figure out how many times to eject
and reinsert in the test vehicle at the dealer to be sure it plays
correctly all the time there.

 

Thanks for the tips. The disc played once after a lot of button
fiddling in the, approximately, five or six times I tried it. I tried
a different disc in the player and had the same problem, with zero
percentage playing time. Your idea about trying it in a different
vehicle is solid and hopefully will be the avenue the service tech
takes when diagnosing the problem at the dealership. Is it too much
to ask to have the stock unit swapped out for the upgraded model??
Thought so. Would my warranty be voided if I wished to replace the
stock radio with a unit purchased elsewhere?

 

As this is an MP3 disc I assume you burned this yourself, right?

Is it possible you have inferior or defective media? Maybe try another brand
of CD to see if it plays. I installed an aftermarket Kenwood in my daughters
Taurus last year and had a heck of a time playing MP3s with the stack of
no-name CDs I had purchased at a computer show (and played fine in her
desktop computer). I burned some Rytek CD's I had at my place and they
played fine in her Kenwood.

HTH,
Jon

http://www.autoforumz.com/eform.php?p=623752

 

Unfortunately, Hyundai's radio repairs are by swapping with a
remanufactured unit. The dealer will need to return the same thing they
take out. If I recall correctly, the Monsoon is the "top of the line"
radio.

If you were to purchase a radio and have it installed, your warranty would
not cover the radio you've purchased nor any damage caused by the radio or
installation. It won't void the entire warranty on the vehicle.

 

What is the model number of your CD player?

Hint - it's in the Owners Manual.

Norm

http://www.autoforumz.com/eform.php?p=622722

 

Since you said that this was an "MP3 disk," I'm going to assume that the
disk was not a commercially-pressed CD but, in fact, a CD that you'd
burned on your computer. Yes?

In other words, you'd burned a CD using MP3 compression.

I recently was testing out the factory stereo in my used 2000 Sonata. My
test disks were Sonys that I'd burned myself. There were skips in
certain places.

I then experienced much more severe skipping on the same CDs in an RCA
CD/alarm clock with a cheap CD drive. The bottom line is that the Sony
blank CDR disks were defective -- way off physical tolerance. So far off
that I can see them wobbling wildly in the transparent RCA drive.

Re-burning the same material on good known disks (no-nonesense
professional-grade disks made by Taiyo Yuden) the problem was solved on
the clock radio. I'll try the same solution for the Hyundai car stereo.

When it comes to blank CDRs, I've discovered that the brand name on the
package is rarely the name of the actual manufacturer. In the case of
the bad Sony disks -- these were actually made by Sony themselves. The
Sony disks that I have that were made by another firm were actually
better. Some burning programs have a utility mode that reveals the
encoded true factory; that's how I know. In fact, I discovered Fuji
disks that I have made by three different makers -- none of them Fuji.
It seems that these jokers almost buy their disks on the spot market.

As with so many things, there's a lot of hype. And car stereo is so
liberally larded with fat that it drips grease like an old-fashioned
pastrami sandwich from a lower-east-side NYC deli. My questionable Sony
disks, in fact, are made with the best long-life optical chemistry.
However, all the excellence of the chemistry doesn't make up for lousy
manufacturing tolerances or out-to-lunch quality control. I'll take a
slightly shorter-lived product any day in return for reliability.

So, before you start haggling about a defective stereo, I recommend that
you try a variety of disks. Note that when it comes to poor playback,
the good home-component-grade mechanisms (and my professional-pedigree
Plextor writer) do a much better job of playing funky disks than do
marginal CD drives (such as the ubiquitous cheap CD drives without disk
clamps)and what I'm begining to suspect are sub-standard mechanisms in
many car stereo products.

Note: because of the age of this thread, I may decide to repost this to
begin a new thread with it.

Please let's have some feedback here: what are peoples' experiences with
CD skipping in their car stereos? What types of disks are better or
worse in this regard?

Richard

 

maybye the person was trying to use a rw disc also?
maybye they dont play in the car stereos??
i have good luuck with memorex discs...

 

I doubt that. What Cardude probably did was "convert mp3 -> 44100 Hz
16-bit PCM stereo ; write resulting PCM data to CD-R in Red Book
format." PCM generated from mp3 has artifacts, sure, but most people
don't notice them if the person who encoded the mp3 used a decent
bitrate.

You can burn mp3 files to an ISO9660+Joliet CD, but CDDA-only players
won't play those. Cardude didn't specify what exactly he'd done, but he
may not have known the many different ways you can burn data to a CD or
the appropriate terms to describe those ways. *shrug*.

Sometimes, the medium is the muckup.

"cdrecord -atip" does that for free, although Joerg Schilling says that
the manufacturer data may not be totally accurate since the Orange Book
people want money for the latest manufacturer codes.

They probably do. Hey, end-users will buy junk because it's 10% cheaper
than mostly-working stuff. Never buy the cheapest possible thing; the
hassle when it breaks is usually not worth it. Spend a little more and
get slightly better quality.

True enough. Plextor = rock, and their CD-RWs are fairly cheap now.

The CD skips I get occasionally in my Tiburon are almost entirely due to
potholes or very cold weather. (For some reason, it skips if the
temperature in the cabin is below about 40 F.) I've got a bunch of
audio CDs burned according to the Red Book, on media from many different
manufacturers, burned with a variety of CD-RW drives. I've had zero
problems with the ones that were stored properly and not stepped on.
The first audio CD I ever burned (early 2000, with a Philips 4x CD-RW
and mid-grade media) is still playable. HTH,

 

Now I'm confused.

Let's restate (for the record). An earlier poster "claimed" that the Monsoon
System in his/her
new Santa Fe played MP3 discs.

I have been unable to verify this.

Anyone care to chime in??

Norm

 

my stereo in my '05 plays MP3 discs fine (and WMA too)
Len

 

I just picked up my new 2005 Santa Fe 2.7 GLS this past Friday. The CD in
the standard stereo does not play MP3s. The stereo in the new Tucson,
however, does play MP3s