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?
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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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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...
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.
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).
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.