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Navguy, My Home Computer Displays the Data, My Home CD Player Displays the Data, My Home Video Equipment Displays the Data, My 2006 GS Displays the Data, My Pioneer in my Camaro displays the Data, My 2001 Tacoma Displays the Data and the LX 460 displays the Data. If I take a single CD to Best Buy and put it in 10 CD players and say 8 of 10 display the data wouldn't you expect it to display on your Brand New LEXUS? We are not talking about a Hyundai CD Player here. I expect better from LEXUS As a consumer now every time I put in a CD and select Audio on my Navigation System I must now see CD Title: (No Data) Song Title: (No Data) When I want to change out a certain CD I will have to select each one individually let it select it, sample it, display No Data and let the CD begin to play before I discover that is not the CD I am looking to change out and continue this from 1-6. If you think this is the experience you have learned to love and expect from LEXUS you must be part owner in the company.

Just got my so called official response from LEXUS. I call it so called because they will not respond in writing of any kind be it email or snail mail. The representative stated that indeed the technology in the CD player in the 2007 GX 470 is old vintage and it will only display text from CD's witht he CD Text Logo. Aparently the CD Text Logo is a propriatary program I believe owned by Sony and not imprinted on most CD's. I spoke to them about the Text in the owners manual and they stated that they will address the misinformation in the owners manual but that they would do nothing about my system not displaying the CD Data. I think this is very bogus...This is 2007 the data is imprinted on CD's in numerous formats displayed on my own personal systems that are up to 7 years old. What gets me the most is that the Navigation system is set up to display this data so any time that I choose audio I will be stuck looking at No Data, No Data and inorder to discover what CD I have in slot 1-6 I will have to wait for them to load and play and then get to the point where I recall the artist. This is a big disappointment to me and I am discusted by LEXUS's official response. I assume there must be an after market multi disc unit on the market that will replace this and display properly on the Navigation Screen. If anyone knows of one let me know, I will replace my factory one and beat it into 1,000 pieces and mail it back to LEXUS.

navguy, The fields that state no data are for the CD's. On page 184 of the owners manual under the Radio section using CD's it states to display CD Title and Track information simply insert a CD. When you do this it searches the CD for about 1 minute then two fields pop up CD Title: No Data Track: No Data Then in the upper right it has a touch button that say Track List if you touch this it will display the tracks 6 per page in the correct quantity for that CD e.g. if a CD has 10 tracks it will have 6 on page 1 and 4 on page 2. The problem again is it displays no data. I believe it also states in the manual that it will display the text data for up to 15 tracks. All of this information is stated way before the MP3 and WMA section in the manual. These fields are there for Commercially bought CD's that have been encoded with this information since 1997 as far as I can tell. The CD's display properly in my 2005 GS300AWD, The 2007 LS460 and my 2001 Toyota Tacoma. I did not try the new ES and IS at the dealership I could proabably speculate though that they would display this information properly. About your cost cutting I find it hard to believe they could save much money by leaving this feature out of the 6 disc changer (it is a common expected feature in car audio today) yet providing the fields in the Navigation screen. I personally think this is a mistake by LEXUS. This would be like buying a new model IPOD that plays your MP3 tracks but will not display the song title and artist and the Apple store telling you "does it play music? than it is working properly". I am sure at that point any previous IPOD owner would call foul with Apple. I know the LS460 has a hard drive. This has no impact on it being able to disply commercially bought CD's Title and Track information. When you put a CD in the multi disc changer it does not load the entire CD to the hard disc prior to displaying data and playing the CD.

If I push Disc/Aux button with no CD it does nothing. It seems to only go to Aux if it senses my IPOD plugged in. If I put CD's in the 6 disc changer in the glove box it will then let me switch between XM, Radio, CD player etc but it will not display the Text. It says no Data for Title and Track on every CD I have tried to put in about 75 thus far. If you hit the button that says Track List it will give you the correct number of tracks showing 6 per page but again no data. GordonW do you own a 2007 GX470? Do all your CD's display the CD Title and Track Data? Thanks Odd, The Navigation manual I'm looking through for the 2007 GX is a little different. Page 185 has index for DVD Changer operation, see page 190 for Audio CD, CD Text. MP3/WMA is on page 193. Anyway, it says to put into the audio screen by touching the Audio button. For CD Text display, push the Disc/aux button. Thats it. Its a small section in the manual.

Just checked page 190 in the owners manual. It is talking about creating MP3 and WMA files that will display Text Data it is not talking about standard CD's Page 184 states simply insert the CD and the CD Title and Song List will display. Again I have inserted over 50 New Original Bought from the Store CD's that meet at least one of the 4 standards stated in the owners manual and not a single one will display text.

I heard this CD Text statement elsewhere on the web. So If I take 6 CD's and put them in the 2005 GS300 the CD Title and Song are displayed, If I put them in the 2007 LS 460 the CD Title and Song are displayed and if I put the same 6 CD's in my 2001 Toyota Tacoma the CD Title and Song are displayed. Now if I take those 6 CD's and put them in the 2007 GX 470 it says No Data...The fact that the Navigation Display has the fields for this information makes me believe that this information was intended to be displayed. So are you saying that the Mark Levinson system in the 2007 GX 470 is the only system in the Lexus/Toyota lineup that requires CDs encoded with the CD Text option? This seems very strange to me. I did file a grievance with Lexus but have yet to receive a response with their official word.

I will check this out when my wife gets home tonight. It will be great if this is the fix, if it is shame on the dealership. They sent their Senior Tech out to tell me that it was the fact that they use 2003 technology in this vehicle.

I did expect it to be an option and that is why I am complaining. This is my 3rd lexus and my newest and the only one of the 3 that does not display this data. The Cost of the Levinson upgrade should include this feature. It doesn't seem right to me when viewing the Audio tab on my Display screen that I see this for the entire time I own the vehicle: CD NAME: No Data SONG TITLE: No Data

I just purchased a 2007 GX470 with the Navigation and Mark Levinson 6 Disc in glovebox CD changer. My wife noticed that none of her original CD's titles or song lists will display. I inserted over 30 new recently purchased CD's into the 6 disc changer and not a single CD's information will display. This is my second GX470 and I don't recall this problem with my 2003 model. I also have a 2005 GS300 AWD that displays every CD's information and a 2001 Tacoma that also displays all the CD's information. I returned to the dealership and they tried to tell me that all CD's are not encoded........I said hold up a second, I want to put all these CD's in that LS460 there and lo and behold every CD inserted was read properly, we then went to the GS and again all CD data was displayed. They then pulled up a similiarly equipped GX470 and to my amazement it did not display any of the CD's information. They went and got their senior tech and his response was that in the GX470 only they are installing a 2003 version of the 6 disc CD changer..........Are you serious???????!!!! This thing plays CDs and DVDs....!!!! The technology to read CD information is like 1990. The Dealership tells me there is nothing they can do about this and that it is working properly as far as they are concerned. I returned home and did an extensive Google search and turned up absolutely nothing on this. The Dealership would like me to believe that I am the only customer to complain that my CD's data is not displayed. I find this very hard to believe that I would be the only person to own a GX470 that would complain about this. My Navigation display is set up to display this data. Are you telling me that during my entire ownership of this vehicle I will have to look at the two lines of text on the display that say NO DATA!!!!! Please respond if anyone else out there is experiencing this problem. If indeed LEXUS's response is that they are using 2003 technology in my 2007 purchase and I just have to live with it I am extremely disappointed. I still can not believe that I can't find a similiar complaint on the World Wide Web am I the only person with this problem?

I just purchased a 2007 GX470 with the Navigation and Mark Levinson 6 Disc in glovebox CD changer. My wife noticed that none of her original CD's titles or song lists will display. I inserted over 30 new recently purchased CD's into the 6 disc changer and not a single CD's information will display. This is my second GX470 and I don't recall this problem with my 2003 model. I also have a 2005 GS300 AWD that displays every CD's information and a 2001 Tacoma that also displays all the CD's information. I returned to the dealership and they tried to tell me that all CD's are not encoded........I said hold up a second, I want to put all these CD's in that LS460 there and lo and behold every CD inserted was read properly, we then went to the GS and again all CD data was displayed. They then pulled up a similiarly equipped GX470 and to my amazement it did not display any of the CD's information. They went and got their senior tech and his response was that in the GX470 only they are installing a 2003 version of the 6 disc CD changer..........Are you serious???????!!!! This thing plays CDs and DVDs....!!!! The technology to read CD information is like 1990. The Dealership tells me there is nothing they can do about this and that it is working properly as far as they are concerned. I returned home and did an extensive Google search and turned up absolutely nothing on this. The Dealership would like me to believe that I am the only customer to complain that my CD's data is not displayed. I find this very hard to believe that I would be the only person to own a GX470 that would complain about this. My Navigation display is set up to display this data. Are you telling me that during my entire ownership of this vehicle I will have to look at the two lines of text on the display that say NO DATA!!!!! Please respond if anyone else out there is experiencing this problem. If indeed LEXUS's response is that they are using 2003 technology in my 2007 purchase and I just have to live with it I am extremely disappointed. I still can not believe that I can't find a similiar complaint on the World Wide Web