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ok, i have a clarion 845mc and the play functions are pissing me off....

this hu looks good(conservative and looks pretty close to stock), and sounds good but the interface is just garbage.

i find that it's very hard to sort through songs on an MP3 cd and the Random feature also sucks.

if the deck is set to random or random folder, it doesn't pick a song randomly if i press FWD. all it does is proceed to the next track. the only way i found around this is to press RND twice (basically turns random off then on again to make it fwd to another random track)

anyone have any other suggestions on how to make this damn thing randomize the tracks? clarion should fire whoever programmed the software for the HU.

 
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Dude I got the same HU and I didn't had any problems at all. I use an mp3 cd as well.
Just click on random once and there u go it automatically plays random music.

Pressing random is the only way to forward to a random track.

The only wish I had was they should have put numbers on the remote so you can pick songs you like.

 
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random works fine if i listen to the full length of each song but randon doesn't work properly if i want to skip a song by pressing FWD. pressing FWD will just advance to the next track on the cd.

 
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programming error then obviously

 
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My wife's HU. Random works ok, but I do think the buttons are a little small.

 
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i got the same unit... and i love it...

 
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does anyone have a clarion HU that lets the listener "skip" forward to another RANDOM track instead of just skipping to the next track on the cd?

what model HU do you have?

 
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Had a clarion, never again!!! Good sound quality, not that great build quality. IMO

 
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I guess Clarion should have had a better RANDOM programming on their units But I still like its sound quality and that's the main thing for me.

 
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heres a Q?

when u get a random song.. try hitting random agiain? maybe it will pick another random? i go tno idea....

 
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hitting it again will turn off Random

 
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I have a Clarion ProAudio that is currently not working. Wont read or load CD's. Had it since Sept. I have to get it sent it soon, but I have an iPod in there, so im not in a hurry.

 
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I have 845mc as well and when i click on random and click it again it chooses a random song not the next song in line.

I don't know why yours turns off when you hit random twice. I think when you click on random you have to wait for the song to load and then click random again and there u go it will choose another random song.

 
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ok, if the cd player is already in random mode and i hit the random button, random mode turns off. if i hit it again, it will find another random track to play. yes, that sorta works to make it skip to another random track but it's very annoying when playing MP3 cds. to get it to skip to another random mp3 track, i have to hit random once then press it again for 2seconds to put it into random folder mode.

also, i noticed that when i do that, it the same songs keep repeating but in different orders. eg. i have 150 songs on an mp3 cd but it seems as though only 20 or so songs are even in the random loop. it's probably because the cdplayer does not remove a song as a next possible track to play. good programmers will probably program code to remove a track from the pool of available random songs once the song has been played. this prevents the track from being played over and over again...

 
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Yep I own a proaudio clarion and mine started the old no playing of cd's thing. I used a HU cleaning kit and no more problems. The manufactoror say every ten hours of play!