cdr question

[Cotton Candy Lover]

Several albums I only had on cdr have become, in time, unplayable. The player won't detect any tracks on them. Anybody know why this is and what can be done to prevent this?

[Stacey0471]

I don't know of any way to prevent it. Best option would've been to store the tracks on your pc via a media player, so that you can burn another copy if necessary.

It is the same player you're using, I take it? Some hi-fi's just don't like cdr's. Another thing you could try if the player is not finding the tracks, is to get hold of a cd lens cleaning disc, in case you just need to clean some dust out.

[deviantdee]

It could be a cyclic error, which is what happens
when the lazer is unable to read to the metadata
on the disc, because the disc is a bit eh, low-
budget. Buy better quality discs; burner, and
CD-making software. Sony Vegas Architecture is good.

The lifespan of all CDs and DVDs is predicated
to be around the 20 years mark.

D.

[Hairglamfan]

This has happened to me recently - I think its a combination of my CD drive being pretty shit and cheap CDs. They play elsewhere but my PC won't recognise them.

[glam_junkie]

my cd player won't even play the new creeps cd (weirdoz)!!! I got it through the site.
I have to play it through my dvd player which can read it.

[Mr.Rainmaker]

I agree with D...

The best thing to do is buy well known brand cd's... I use Sony cd's and never have any problems with it...

But I usually use some generic cd's for data use and from time to time have that cyclic error that D said before...

[deviantdee]

Thankfully most new CD players are going to play
straight up CDRs with mps3 on them, but the older
ones aren't good keeping up with new CD burning
software. As I said, if you're making 'red box'
CDs - i.e. CDRs burnt to play like normal CDs -
the choice of software helps. Architecture is
supposed to be the best, but I haven't heard
anyone complaining about newish versions of
Nero either.

D.

[Mr.Rainmaker]

Hey D... the "red box" that you're referring is actually called "red book"... and it's only used in professional recordings... Just as an example, if you're going to duplicate a cd to make silver prints copies YOU MUST burn the cdr with any soft that handles the "red book" standards...

In our case it's not a definitive NEED... you can use the V.A. (it works pretty good) but I usually burn my audio cd's with the latest version of Nero and never had any reading problem (of course, in the case that you use any common brand cd).

[deviantdee]

Agreed. Nero should be enough for most people.

'Red box' used to be my nickname for 'red book'.
(I can't remember the reason why). Apologies for
misleading anyone.

D.