Just a little nice thing I found. Maybe it's been posted allready, in that case just disregard this.

I found that if I want the text info shown during MP3 playback to deafult to one of the available tags, for example Artist. I scroll to that information with the text button, and when the required info is shown I hold the button pressed until the displays blinks. After that it will always default back to displaying artist, even after it's been off.

This wa actually quite nice. I prefer to always se what artist is playing.

Now the only thing I miss, is for the player to automatically scroll a to long artist name back and forth, automatically.

BTW. My Shaker works 100%, no skipping, no errors and no missing end of songs. The car is built in February.

 

Quick, take it out of the car, pack it in some sort of weather resistant sealant type package, then pack that in to something that is shock resistant, then put that in to a crush proof box, and store it in a saftey deposit box at your bank. Because you have a collectors item, a Skipper that doesn't mess up!

My build date was January. I am on my 4th Skipper head unit, 2nd "B" series. It is still a P.O.S. and is being removed as soon as I get the time to yank it out and replace it with the Kenwood DDX7015 that is sitting on the shelf in the garage.

 

I have been noticing some skippage in my shaker as well. mostly on factory cd's though...with my mp3 cd's that i burn myself, it plays just fine..if not a whole lot better. I am pretty much figuring that the skippin issue aint so much the shaker but the discs and how they were originally burned. I can still go to a best buy, get a brand new cd and it will skip like hell in the house stereo. Not saying that the shaker is the end all...but why burn loot on replacing something that works just fine? I seen a quite few post with peeps gutting there radios already. I hope its more out of wanting to be different and personalize the ride with money to burn...and not the fact that the shaker is a bad radio...cuz its not a bad one at all.

I am guessin mine was built in feb. as it was shipped sometime march. if that has anything to do with the price of tea in china.

 

I have to say that I mostly play MP3 Cd's, and that it is those that work fine for me. I try to use good quality CD-R discs and I burn them at a slower speed then what the CD burner are specified for. I usually burn them at 16X speed.

I have played some retail CDs also and they have worked fine for me.

I also have to say that I'm quite pleased with the sound quality of the unit (Shaker 1000). That is off course compared only to other cars original systems, or mid range installed systems. Not compared to high end installations.

gforceX1, check in the door frame of the drivers door. In mine there is a sticker there that states build date in year and month, among other info.

 

I have only had mine since Saturday (three days) and have played a couple of audio cds that I burned a while back as well as one MP3 CD and haven't had any trouble. I did notice one song (on the MP3 cd) skip in one spot, but it does it every time at that same spot and that is the only one I've noticed. It must be a glitch in the disc since it's the same spot on the one song every time.

Update: Mine was built in 04/05.

 

I noticed in some other post that a lot of owners were having problems with their shaker's ..Mine has yet to screw up and in fact plays great ..I think my build date was March also ..hmmmmm

 

Any cd player is more likely to skip more playing conventional cd's. Reason being is that a conventional cd is read in real time as the disc is spinning. MP3 files are read into memory first, then played. Skipping is a lot less likely because the track being played is coming from memory which of course has no moving parts and therfore not succestible to vibration and such.
This is all assuming that your MP3 cd's are written correctly and written to good quality blanks.

(ex Microsoft Windows Xp support tech)