Text corruption on some MP3 files

[swajames]

I have a 2008 997 S. The car plays MP3 files just fine, and for most tracks the artist and track info is displayed properly and everything works as you would expect. On a couple of albums, however, the car struggles to display artist and track info (the text it does display is gibberish, but it's consistent insofar as the same tracks always display the same gibberish). If I look at the track and artist data in iTunes (select track, get info) everything seems just fine and it also displays fine on my iPods.

Any thoughts? Can't find anything obviously wrong with the data encoded along with the tracks which was the first port of call.

thanks!

[sd_boxster]

The artist/track isn't in a non-English format, is it? Some tracks (like the Russian cuts on T.a.t.u CDs) would not display properly on my Sony headunit as they were extended characters - could be the same issue for your gibberish tracks/albums?

I have a 2008 997 S. The car plays MP3 files just fine, and for most tracks the artist and track info is displayed properly and everything works as you would expect. On a couple of albums, however, the car struggles to display artist and track info (the text it does display is gibberish, but it's consistent insofar as the same tracks always display the same gibberish). If I look at the track and artist data in iTunes (select track, get info) everything seems just fine and it also displays fine on my iPods.

Any thoughts? Can't find anything obviously wrong with the data encoded along with the tracks which was the first port of call.

thanks!

[swajames]

The artist/track isn't in a non-English format, is it? Some tracks (like the Russian cuts on T.a.t.u CDs) would not display properly on my Sony headunit as they were extended characters - could be the same issue for your gibberish tracks/albums?

I don't think so. One of the albums came from Amazon (from their MP3 store) and everything seems fine when I look at the tags and data using other applications, it just seems to be the car that can't read/display it!

Thanks for the idea though - appreciate the suggestion.