CD-RW

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Sat, Mar 01, 2008 at 09:20:46AM -0500, Mr Chris Aitken wrote:
> Well, yeah, but some CD-Rs I've burned play on anything. I'm starting to 
> shop songs around so I want to make sure the CDs I burn will play on 
> anything. Teh one time some A&R decides to spin your CD you don't want 
> it to fail in whatever CD player he throws it in. For instance, 
> store-bought CDs will play in anything. Why? How can I get that 
> consistency on CDs I burn? How can I burn CDs that won't "depend[] on 
> the player"? Will I be safer with CD-Rs instead of CD-RWs? It seems so 
> but I don't know so.

A CD-R should work on any CD player.  It won't work on many older DVD
players however.  CD-RW only works on newer devices that know about them
in many cases.  So the only sure thing is a pressed CD.  CD-R is the
next best bet, with the ones that are silver looking (maybe a slight
blue tint) being more likely to work than ones that are clearly coloured
green or blue on the recording surface.  The ones that are almost
entirely silver in colour can even work in some cases on old single
laser DVD players that otherwise only support DVDs and pressed CDs.

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Len Sorensen
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