Can the Concert III (2010) CD Changer Adaptor Pick up CD-TEXT?

[danA3T]

Hi guys,

As some of you've read in my previous posts, my motor's got the very shoddy Audi iPod dock, which I'm trying a bit of software hackery to make a bit more functional (useful) - which I'll post up here as a guide if all goes well...

But, my investigations have come to a dead end, as I can't find a definitive answer of whether the CD-Changer connector on modern Audi Head Unit's can receive / decode CD-TEXT via the CD-Changer port which my iPod dock is plugged into?

I would guess it does as the head-unit gets CD-TEXT off regular audio CDs in the built in CD player, but the end-game is to hack the iPod so it sends track info to the head unit as if it were CD-TEXT rather than the useless 'track 1' that it gets at the moment.

Thanks for any help guys!

 

[danA3T]

Anyone?

 

[philipjmarshall]

hi Dan

Did you say you get CD text information on your head unit, i only get track numbers on my symphony multi CD player??

 

[s8craig]

simple answer is no. non of the external interfaces support cd text

concert/symphony ii does not support text internal or external
concert/symphony ii+ does support text internal but not external

 

[danA3T]

Thanks for clearing this up, this is a tree I'll stop barking up in that case. I'm writing a few scripts to control the output of a jailbroken ipod touch and I uncovered the ability to spit out track info down the dock port. Now if there'd only been a way to get the HU to recognise it eh?

 

[danA3T]

hi Dan

Did you say you get CD text information on your head unit, i only get track numbers on my symphony multi CD player??

I certainly did, but not all CDs have CD-TEXT on them - in fact it's rare to find an original CD with them on - most are the CDs which I've burnt myself and selected the option to include CD-TEXT. FYI - also plays MP3's and allows you to browse by folder and display the ID3 tags.