Loading the CD changer

Maybe loading the discs is like "stacking" them, with the last CD in being "disc 1", on the top of the stack?

 

I have the exact same problem. I love books-on-tape but get frustrated listening to discs out of order all the time.

It seems an issue when loading 4. I experimented loading two and it worked as expected, playing the first in first. I have googled the internet and not found any documentation on how this is supposed to work. I am grateful you brought it up because I thought I was missing something.

 

If you have two in already, and have been playing them, what does loading a third do?

The Audio system with the Nav option (only described in the Nav Manual) says that the last disc inserted is the one that will play first.

But, I suspect in loading 3, it would be disc 3 ... I wii have to try a few tests.

 

Hi PriusRos, My four disc system worked the same way; so, based on multiple responses, yes, it sounds like that's the way it is supposed to work. While traveling, I figured I would just go through the 'Change disc' process or I thought about loading the discs in reverse order. Never got that test attempted.

I did try removing discs 1, 2, & 3, leaving disc 4 and loading disc 5, 6, & 7. Boy that's a hassle I don't want to get tangled up in ever again. --TK

 

Learned this on the two-day trip home from the dealer. Now I just load them 4,3,2,1 - 8,7,6,5 - etc. Once you've done a couple of time it will be natural and no big deal.

 

On the Nav-CD system:
Think of a stack of 4 storage slots that move up and down just enough to align one of the 4 slots with the "play" head. Think of this stack being behind the "Play" part of the device, and the CD is always loaded into the "play" head, always with an empty slot behind it.

Then, if you change discs, the CD in the play head slides back into the empty slot, the stack moves to a "filled" slot, and that CD is loaded into the play head.

So, in normal operation, there is always a CD in the play head (if any are loaded) and an empty slot is always waiting behind the play head - to store that CD if another is to be loaded.

Initially, it seems that you can only load in the 1, 2, 3, 4 order.
You can choose which CD to eject, but not which slot to load into. If you load an additional CD (not ejecting one), I suspect the "next" empty slot is chosen for you, probably in the 1234123... sequence, starting at the currently-playing slot. But, I did not load 123, eject 1, play 2, and try to load another CD - to see if it would go into slot 4, or slot 1.

Perhaps the non-Nav changer works differently, to explain the reported behavior of loading 2 CDs and it automatically play the first-loaded CD.

 

The non-Nav CD changer holds 6 CDs?

If you load CDs 1,2,3,4, which one plays first? Number 4?
And does it then automatically start CD 1 when CD 4 is done?

If so, loading CDs 2,3,4,1 would play them in the 1234 order (at least in the with-Nav system).

 

On the with-Nav CD changer you can easily select any of the loaded discs to "begin", after loading them.

You must be able to load 1234 and then select 1 as the disc to play, right?

 

Ok, so if you just do not want to do the "change disc" to 1, you can just load the CDs 2341, right?