A Most Bizarre Computer Phenomen

HemlockGrey · Post by **HemlockGrey** » 2002-12-22 11:35pm

So I'm burning a CD for my grandmother(Billy Eckstine, if you care) and I burn it onto a Compaq CD-RW data disk. Plays fine on the comp.

However, my crappy-ass stereo does not read it. The stereo is two or so years old, and the speakers are older than I am.

Yogi · Post by **Yogi** » 2002-12-22 11:37pm

RW discs have a lot of problem playing on other devices. The DVD player at my school will not read VCDs burned onto RWs, though it reads "normal" VCDs just fine. You'll need to use a "real" CD.

HemlockGrey · Post by **HemlockGrey** » 2002-12-22 11:40pm

Dammit!

HemlockGrey · Post by **HemlockGrey** » 2002-12-22 11:40pm

Would a CD-R work?

data_link · Post by **data_link** » 2002-12-22 11:44pm

Cal Wright · Post by **Cal Wright** » 2002-12-22 11:45pm

Should. I have only 'heard' of the rare occasion when a CD-R didnt work. However, the CD-RWs I have tried never work on my CD players of any kind including my console's like the DC or the PS2. I have no idea why, must be the way they make em. All I know is that I can't get em to work, except of course for the PC.

DPDarkPrimus · Post by **DPDarkPrimus** » 2002-12-23 12:03am

CD-Rs don't play on my stereo sometimes, but then again, so do my store-bought CDs.

I really think it's time for a new stereo.

Enlightenment · Post by **Enlightenment** » 2002-12-23 01:48am

CDRW disks have too low a contrast ratio to be read by pure Red Book CD readers used in ordinary stereo equipment. CDRW disks are only readable by computer-type (IIRC Orange Book) drive mechinisms. There is a fair bit of audo CD equipment on the market today that will read CDRW but this is a feature item that costs extra.

Note that CDRW-capable standalone CD players are unlikely to play Associations of America use restricted CDs.