Re: CDR quality / reliability problems

On Fri, 31 Mar 2006 12:36:37 -0500, "Ethan Winer" <ethanw at
ethanwiner dot com> wrote:

Folks,

Over the past few years I've noticed that CDRs played in my car start to
break up after 20 minutes or so of playing. It starts with a small amount of
"popcorn" type background noise, then gets worse, then eventually it sounds
just terrible AND the CD skips and stutters at the slightest bump in the
road implying a laser / tracking problem. I always assumed it was my car's
aging CD player, and maybe the fact that CDs get very warm after they've
been inside there for a while.

I've noticed a big increase in reliability if you burn at a slower
speeds when making audio discs. I have a 52X CD burner. I'll use 52X
when making a data disc, but never go above 24X when burning an audio
disc. I might even go 16X or 8X when making an audio disc for a
client. I use TDK 80 minute 52X blanks and they work every time. I
purposely keep a couple of older CD players around that were built
before CD-R's were available. They will choke on anything that's not
quite up to par. I'll test my burns on those and if they play there,
I know they will play anywhere. I can't remember the last bad CD I
burned.

Julian



.

Relevant Pages

  • Re: questions about downloading the episodes to disc
    ... I've only run into a few things that I couldn't play in it like some mpg2 ... When you burn them using say Nero if you choose the size of the media you ... I seriously doubt that my DVD player will play these ... probably be a waste of a disc though. ...
    (rec.arts.drwho)
  • Re: DVD Skips
    ... Although I like to burn at 8X, over the years I had two significant & ... I had an old, problematic standalone CD player, had to be in the first ... The LG mistake would start, but not play on old betsy, while the Sony ...
    (rec.video.desktop)
  • Re: questions about downloading the episodes to disc
    ... I've only run into a few things that I couldn't play in it like some mpg2 ... When you burn them using say Nero if you choose the size of the media you ... It will probably be a waste of a disc though. ... My player is a few years old and I don't recall it having those kind of features. ...
    (rec.arts.drwho)
  • Re: Judge questions - a competent help needed!
    ... player A's reaction. ... warning for illegal play, and A can attempt to block now". ... burn Tensions in the Ranks by discarding two master cards. ... Tensions) recalled that his prey couldn't burn Tensions, ...
    (rec.games.trading-cards.jyhad)
  • Re: Can No Longer Burn Playable CDs - Help!!!
    ... is completed, the program always says that the burn was successful, however, when I try to play it in my home stereo or car stereo, it will play to the end of the first track and then go back and repeat about the last 10 or 15 seconds of that track. ... I've tried Roxio 5, Roxio 7, Nero, and Windows Media Player. ... Why doesn't the CD player in my car play the CDs that I burn? ... When creating data CDs, the Player burns your WMA and MP3 files to the CD in their current format without converting them for an audio CD. ...
    (microsoft.public.windowsxp.music)