Burning an Audio CD for an Old CD Player

ThemeOne

Does anyone have advice about burning an audio CD for an ageing CD player - the Sony CDP XE200.

I have one home burned CD which plays fine on this machine, but it was burned years ago on a 650Mb CD. I've tried burning three times on a 700Mb CDR (Datawrite brand), and in all three cases, the player simply reports "no disc" when you insert it.

The methods I've used are ImgBurn in Windows, and command line in Linux (using the disk at once DAO option). Maybe I should try TAO.

The CDs I've burned are definitely audio CDs, and are recognised fine on other equipment.

Norman_Castle

Not sure about the software you are using but do you finalise the disc after copying?

CD players often cannot read re-writable discs. What other equipment do they play on?

I've never had a problem but apparently some players don't like certain brands of discs. Can you try another make of disc.

bat999

ThemeOne wrote: »

Does anyone have advice about burning an audio CD...
... command line in Linux...

This works for me with Ubuntu Linux.

Install wodim...

sudo apt-get update; sudo apt-get -y install wodim

Burn the wav file...

wodim dev='/dev/sr0' -v -audio filename.wav

Or several wav files...

wodim dev='/dev/sr0' -v -audio file1.wav file2.wav file3.wav

parking_question_chap

Needs to be a WAV file for older CD players.

googler

parking_question_chap wrote: »

Needs to be a WAV file for older CD players.

No, it needs to be a Red Book CD.

Start out with whatever file you want - FLAC, WAV, mp3 etc., but the end result, determined by the burning software, must meet the Red Book standards. OP says the discs play OK on other machines, so that suggests the machine they want to use is either faulty or beginning to go on the fritz.

esuhl

Really old CD players couldn't play CD-Rs or CD-RWs. And even some not-so-old ones struggled with CD-RWs.

Or maybe there's a problem with the laser alignment of your drives.

Neil_Jones

Home burnt disks are not actual CDs by specification - professionally cut disks are pressed from glass moulds, whereas at home they're burnt with a laser, which the older drives aren't expecting and that's why they claim there is no disk - they don't know any better.

There may not be a lot you can do about this, short of possibly replacing the lasers but one can get CD players/radio/tape machines for about £30 that will play them.

glentoran99

some don't like 700mb CD's

ThemeOne

Thanks everyone.

Yes I'm using wodim as recommended above (I normally do "wodim -v -pad -audio *.wav"), the discs are finalised, and I don't use CDRW's.

I do wonder if wodim produced a true Red Book disk. There was an option in ImgBurn to "Change Book Type" but I couldn't work out how to use it.

I will try another make of CD, and another burner, just in case, but I agree this might just be one of those things.

googler

ThemeOne wrote: »

I will try another make of CD, and another burner, just in case, but I agree this might just be one of those things.

Try Burrrn. I use it, and have never had a failure with it.

esuhl

ThemeOne wrote: »

TI do wonder if wodim produced a true Red Book disk. There was an option in ImgBurn to "Change Book Type" but I couldn't work out how to use it.

I'm not overly familiar with all the Rainbow Book standards, but I think that the Red Book is just for CD-DA discs that have been professionally produced.

The Orange Book standard is a later standard which allows burning to CD-R (and CD-RW).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CD-R#History

I'm not entirely sure that's correct, or whether it has any bearing on what you're doing...? Just thought I'd mention it in case it helps...