Rewritable CDs.......
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ok, the problem i this: I have just bought a laptop computer with a CD-RW drive, and was keen to get some of those rarest MP3s onto CD (ie Firecracker). BUT when i had burned it, it wouldnt play in my 4-year old CD player, or any other CD player in the house, but it was fine on my laptop.....
The thing is, i used an 80-minute CD and i reckon that might be the reason. If i use a 74 it might be alright i thought, but i dont want to waste any more money until im sure. What does everyone else think?
Harvey
The thing is, i used an 80-minute CD and i reckon that might be the reason. If i use a 74 it might be alright i thought, but i dont want to waste any more money until im sure. What does everyone else think?
Harvey
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I am using SonicStage 1.0, which came pre-installed on my computer. And i burn at 8x speed. Dunno what difference the software would make.....
Markus sent me State To State on CD-R about 2 yrs ago (shoulda kept that quiet, lol!). That plays fine on my 4-year old AIWA CD player, so i definitely think that theres a problem with the 80min disc. Maybe its because ive been using CDRWs whereas State To State was just a CDR i think, and thus played. But note that the 80min disc DOES play on my personal CD player (only a few months old), which suggests that maybe it is the 4-year old player that is to blame. I guess i ought to just go ahead and spend another tenner on some 74s to see if they work. Failing that, its time for a new CD player. The disc changer on my current one is broken and has been for ages, so ive been considering a new one anyway....
Markus sent me State To State on CD-R about 2 yrs ago (shoulda kept that quiet, lol!). That plays fine on my 4-year old AIWA CD player, so i definitely think that theres a problem with the 80min disc. Maybe its because ive been using CDRWs whereas State To State was just a CDR i think, and thus played. But note that the 80min disc DOES play on my personal CD player (only a few months old), which suggests that maybe it is the 4-year old player that is to blame. I guess i ought to just go ahead and spend another tenner on some 74s to see if they work. Failing that, its time for a new CD player. The disc changer on my current one is broken and has been for ages, so ive been considering a new one anyway....
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"Maybe its because ive been using CDRWs whereas State To State was just a CDR i think, and thus played"
There's yer problem - you can can only play CDRWs in CDRW drives. Since your Aiwa is 4 years old, I doubt if it's of the newer breed of hi fi that can play rewritable discs. However, your newer cd player probably is...(I bought my parents a hi fi last Xmas, and was surprised to discover it was CDRW compatible!)
Unless you want to treat the cd as a 'tape' for recording over and over, stick to audio CDRs. I use TDKs from HMV (who do an offer of £10 for about 20/25, without the cases)
Software can make a big difference (especially for audio cds) but that's another topic.
<font size=-1>[ This Message was edited by: Rich The Donkey Doctor on 2002-08-10 03:46 ]</font>
There's yer problem - you can can only play CDRWs in CDRW drives. Since your Aiwa is 4 years old, I doubt if it's of the newer breed of hi fi that can play rewritable discs. However, your newer cd player probably is...(I bought my parents a hi fi last Xmas, and was surprised to discover it was CDRW compatible!)
Unless you want to treat the cd as a 'tape' for recording over and over, stick to audio CDRs. I use TDKs from HMV (who do an offer of £10 for about 20/25, without the cases)
Software can make a big difference (especially for audio cds) but that's another topic.
<font size=-1>[ This Message was edited by: Rich The Donkey Doctor on 2002-08-10 03:46 ]</font>
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From http://www.cdrfaq.org :
"CD-R is short for "CD-Recordable". Recordable CDs are WORM (Write Once, Read Multiple) media that work just like standard CDs. The advantage of CD-R over other types of optical media is that you can use the discs with a standard CD player. The disadvantage is that you can't reuse a disc.
A related technology called CD-Rewritable (CD-RW) allows you to erase discs and reuse them, but the CD-RW media doesn't work in all players. CD-Rewritable drives are able to write both CD-R and CD-RW discs.
All CD recorders can read CDs and CD-ROMs, just like a standard CD-ROM drive."
I would recommend to always use CD-R's as opposed to CD-RW's, especially since CD-R's are so cheap nowadays...
l8rs,
Nick
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"CD-R is short for "CD-Recordable". Recordable CDs are WORM (Write Once, Read Multiple) media that work just like standard CDs. The advantage of CD-R over other types of optical media is that you can use the discs with a standard CD player. The disadvantage is that you can't reuse a disc.
A related technology called CD-Rewritable (CD-RW) allows you to erase discs and reuse them, but the CD-RW media doesn't work in all players. CD-Rewritable drives are able to write both CD-R and CD-RW discs.
All CD recorders can read CDs and CD-ROMs, just like a standard CD-ROM drive."
I would recommend to always use CD-R's as opposed to CD-RW's, especially since CD-R's are so cheap nowadays...
l8rs,
Nick
<font size=-1>[ This Message was edited by: nickking on 2002-08-11 20:27 ]</font>
I meant unreliable compared to CD-Rs. I had a few cases where I had backed up stuff on a CD-RW, and when I wanted to access the disk a year later, the drive just wouldn't read them anymore. So I decided to just burn to CD-Rs as, like Nick mentioned, they have become so cheap.On 2002-08-11 19:12, SkiFamily91 wrote:
why are they unreliable? i was expecting them to be much more reliable than using floppys (which was all i had before). They used to break for no reason.