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

"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

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.

--
*There are 3 kinds of people: those who can count & those who can't.

Dave Plowman London SW
To e-mail, change noise into sound.

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.

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.

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.Cheers

Hi Seafarer...

A cd that will play on your computer but not on your domestic
entertainment machines could be caused a couple of ways...

You must record it "track at once"; not disk at once.

And it absolutely must be recorded with the "finalize disk"
option selected. (not finalize session which is a whole
different thing)

Take care.

Ken

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.

On Sat, 18 Feb 2006 09:34:49 GMT, (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.Cheers



Thanks for all the informative replies,got the answer I needed.thanks
again.Regards

On Sat, 18 Feb 2006 09:34:49 GMT, (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.Cheers



Hi
Once again thanks for the replies,cracked it,as suggested,by recording
on to a CD-R80 disc not the re-writable DC-RW.
It worked fine except it only went to 10 tracks,missing out the last
two saying that the user had aborted.I'll find out why eventually but
i can live with that.thanks again