CD Burning

stefano

I bought a box of "Maxell CD-R 80 SQ 700 MB" from Lidl and I was trying to burn some music to safeguard my originals but the laptop it's not able to copy files onto such disc. Anyone had such problem?

Mercenary

I'm not sure what the SQ in the CD name denotes, but is your laptop CD burner compatible with + or - formats (or both +/-)?
If it is only compatible with + format (CD+R) then your CD-R discs will be unuseable in it.

sandy2_2

stefano wrote: »

I bought a box of "Maxell CD-R 80 SQ 700 MB" from Lidl and I was trying to burn some music to safeguard my originals but the laptop it's not able to copy files onto such disc. Anyone had such problem?

Take them back to Lidl and change them or get a refund. Know it sounds silly but have you got a CD writer installed on your laptop?

rockabilly_spike

there are no + and - with blank CDs, just DVD

What software were you using to copy the files to the CD?

superscaper

rockabilly is right, there's no such thing AFAIK as CD+R.

Donnie

Yes, some more details please.

Mercenary

superscaper wrote: »

rockabilly is right, there's no such thing AFAIK as CD+R.

oops! got mixed up with my DVDs and CDs. Sorry, it's been a while since I used CDs.

stefano

SAndy2: I have cd burner, rockabilly I am using a dell inspiron laptop, with windows media player, which I used with some other cd's.

Donnie

You'll need Disc burning software such as Nero; http://www.nero.com/enu/Downloads.html

sandy2_2

If your Cd burner worked with other CDR and CDRW, take them back to Lidl and get a refund

rockabilly_spike

Some music CDs have an anti piracy device placed on them so its very difficult to do a direct CD-CD copy.
it may not be the fault of the discs.

Download the nero trial version and try a simulated copy from the original disc which will not write on the blank CD but will show any errors.
if it works OK, try burning it properly without the simulation.
if it doesnt you may need to think about another method such as using windows media player to rip the tracks to mp3 or wma first, then copying them back to a blank cd using nero.

its annoying i know when you wanna make a backup copy so your original doesnt get scratched etc but with the music industry in such a state because of file sharing like Limewire and people STEALING music rather than buying it, they industry has to safeguard CDs against piracy somehow.
I'm not having a go at anyone specific but everyone likes to be paid for their work right?
So do musicians (speaking as one myself) so please buy CDs or from legal download sites such as Itunes.