"Seafarer" wrote in message
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One of my favourite CD's[Gerry Rafferty] was scratched.I burned it on
to my computer and the new disc worked well playing on the computer
through Windows Media File player.
Loaded it on to my workshop CD player and it would not play,same
happened with another CD player kept as spare,no go, showing error.
Took it home loaded it in my DVD player and it worked perfectly.
The writable disc is a CD-RW80 High speed 4-12x.
got to be a reason but I'm not clued up on CD recorders.Cheers



Magneto-optical discs have a lower reflectivity than pressed discs. It is
not unusual at all for many older CD players to have difficulty reading
these discs. When CD burners in computers were first around, and everyone
discovered ' free ' download sites, I used to see loads of players claiming
to " Not read some CDs ". It almost invariably turned out that the ones it
wouldn't read were unbranded spindle-pack home burns. Many later hi fi's
then claimed to be CD-R compatible, with slightly better designed decoder
and servo electronics that could cope with higher data error rates. You
should also make sure that you are definitely burning in the correct CD
format. DVD players will often play just about any format disc that you
throw at them, whereas CD players, won't. Other than this, try a different
brand of disc with a different dye colour.

Arfa