CD player silence glitch

[McSam]

Fortunately, I've been lucky and quite satisfied with the head unit on my 2015 3.8 Ultimate, including the CD player, but I'm experiencing a strange issue with one particular series of CDs from the Great Courses. At first I thought it was a recording or manufacturing defect, but it does not occur in other CD players. Here's what happens: Every couple of minutes the lecturer pauses for several seconds--much longer than one would expect. When she resumes, the first one or two syllables in the sentence are not heard. The closest analogy I can think of is when there is some noise suppression circuit for silences that works overtime and de-activates too late. Could this really be happening? Is there in fact such a circuit? It never happens in the silences between tracks which, come to think of it, are not as long as these silences that trigger the drop-outs.

Thanks for your insights.

 

[Crowley]

I can't speak to the CD Player, but I experienced this between MP3s on a USB Thumbdrive. I was able to copy the MP3s to the Local Hard drive and it doesn't do it. A quick solution may be to rip that CD to a thumb drive and then copy it over to the local hard drive (I don't think you can go right from CD to Local HD, but I could be wrong).

Crowley

 

[MikeyTG]

You don't need to copy music to the local drive, you can play right from the thumb drive. Put the albums in folders by artist then album. I have used a 64GB thumb left in all the time and it works fine. there are some really tiny ones available. There is a limit to the number of songs, I think it is 7000.

This is the one I used, its only disadvantage is that it is so small it is hard to grip to remove.

http://goo.gl/W529sW

 

[srobak]

You don't need to copy music to the local drive, you can play right from the thumb drive

Here is why Crowley made the suggestion to get it onto the hard drive:

I can't speak to the CD Player, but I experienced this between MP3s on a USB Thumbdrive.

Leave the skimming to the ATMs.

 

[Genentec]

who uses cds anymore, definitely not a studly genesis driver.

 

[McSam]

...but I experienced this between MP3s on a USB Thumbdrive

Thanks Crowley. Do you recall if this behavior was for a particular group or album of MP3s or was it for the entire thumb drive?