James Sweet wrote:
Sjouke Burry wrote:
Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
In article ,
Seafarer wrote:

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.


Some CD players from just before the days of recordable CDs won't play
them. Funnily, the earliest CD players often will. The reflective
coating
is different on a home burn CD to a commercial one.

I noticed that OP uses re_writable cd's. I found those
to be much weaker than CD-R , so I would advise to use
CD-R.

I missed that part, yes most CD players will not play re-writable discs,
most will however play standard CD-R discs, though sometimes it helps to
burn them at a lower speed than the max of the drive.

That is because CD-R are still within the red book standard where as
rewritables are not. The reflectivity of rewritables is much lower, and
the AGC circuit of the CD player must be designed for rewritables to be
able to cope with these discs (see also the orange book standard). I
doubt burning them at another speed will make much of a difference.