CD-RW

Mr Chris Aitken chris-n/jUll39koHNgV/OU4+dkA at public.gmane.org
Tue Mar 4 12:04:57 UTC 2008


Lennart Sorensen wrote:

>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. 
>
Looks like you're right. I bought a spindle of CD-Rs, burned my song to 
one, and it plays in the car and on my old JVC CD player.

Thanks,

Chris

> 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.
>
>--
>Len Sorensen
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>

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