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Old Mar 4, 2001 | 09:07 AM
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I'm finally found my car and managed to hold on to it. (2001 GS3 black/black, Nav/ML) unless they sell it out from under me this week before it arrives! Was wondering if anyone has been able to get CD-R and CD-RW discs to play in their late model Lexus changer? I imagine CD-R will play (they work in my 3 year old JVC 3-CD in-dash player), but CD-RW only work in players engineered to read them. Anyone having success?
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Old Mar 4, 2001 | 09:24 AM
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CD-R i'm positive, i have 4 in there now, CD-RW probobly
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Old Mar 4, 2001 | 09:50 AM
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Most of the CD's in my changer are CD-R. I don't see why CD-RW shouldn't work the same!

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Old Mar 4, 2001 | 02:57 PM
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the cd-r will work on them but the cd-rw dont unless the mark levinson system could read cd-rw format you should ask the dealers about that cause the nakamichi doesn't I tried
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Old Mar 6, 2001 | 05:48 AM
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Better check with the dealer, but I doubt the changer will read RWs. The bit pattern for RW is not the same as CD-R.

They may be out there but I've not encountered a changer that will read RW. Only players I've seen that will are on multi-read computer drives.

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Old Mar 6, 2001 | 08:19 AM
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Originally posted by RealMarty
Better check with the dealer, but I doubt the changer will read RWs. The bit pattern for RW is not the same as CD-R.

They may be out there but I've not encountered a changer that will read RW. Only players I've seen that will are on multi-read computer drives.

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The only ones that I have seen that can read CD-RW consistently are the MP3 based head-units.

Some will read them if you finalize the CDRW but then you will have a CD-R essentially.
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