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cd burned, can’t play
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Using both Fujifilm and Memorex blank CDs and can burn them both and play them on the desktop. BUT, I can’t play them in any of my CD players—5-discs, boombox, car.
I used to be able to play discs burned with Fujifilm. I do upgrade iTunes (now 8.02) and wonder if that could be the problem. Sometimes older versions are sometimes more compatible. -
Is iTunes burning them as audio discs or mp3 discs?
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Audio discs.
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I don’t know if this is the cause of the problem, but Fuji does not make their own discs. They buy them from a manufacturing plant and rebrand them. They actually buy from several different plants of varying quality (Taiyo Yuden and Prodisc being the good ones), so you might have gotten one of the bad ones. Memorex is the same, though I have no idea which manufacturers they buy from. Although if the CDs play on your Mac, I don’t know if that would be the cause of the problem.
I always buy unbranded Taiyo Yuden CDs/DVDs from Super Media Store, and I’ve never had a problem. They’re not cheap, but they are the best. Prodisc is a bit cheaper, and are tested on / most reliable with Pioneer optical drives.
[ Edited: 06 February 2009 01:57 PM by mrhooks ] -
Another thought. You might try burning them at a slower speed. The faster you burn, in a sense, the “weaker” the burn. It is a long-standing axiom that if you are having problems with burnt disks reading on CD players or DVD players, try burning at a slower speed.
That said, Microsoft did something so that our X-Box won’t read _any_ burnt CD, regardless of speed. But my money is still on burning slower.
-Jon
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Are these disks CD-RW? A lot of players have problems reading them. I’ve not had much success playing CD-RW.
