Burning an Audio CD for an Old CD Player

wongataa

ThemeOne wrote: »

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.

Older players often have issues with 700MB discs. Try 650 MB discs.

poppellerant

Something I haven't seen (or can't see) mentioned yet, is the speed you use to write the discs. It is true that older CD players don't like writeable or re-writeable discs. But some might not work if you use write the disc too quickly.

It used to be the case that 4x was the slowest speed you could write at, but it seems to be either 8x or 16x these days. But either way, try the slowest write speed available to you.

ThemeOne

I also noticed yesterday that all the home burned CDRs the player can play appear to be TDK 650Mb blue dye discs.

HappySeagull

poppellerant wrote: »

Something I haven't seen (or can't see) mentioned yet, is the speed you use to write the discs. It is true that older CD players don't like writeable or re-writeable discs. But some might not work if you use write the disc too quickly.

It used to be the case that 4x was the slowest speed you could write at, but it seems to be either 8x or 16x these days. But either way, try the slowest write speed available to you.

Yes. I've been having a similar problem today, trying to burn DVDs that would play on a variety of old and new equipment. In theory, you can do that simply with Windows Explorer, but the results were poor.

The solution (fingers still crossed) was to use software that allowed me to specify the lowest possible burn speed, so that may well be the answer for those CDs.

However, it meant downloading my old favourite ImgBurn, and ensuring it didn't install the malware that comes with it now.

Fightsback

ThemeOne wrote: »

I also noticed yesterday that all the home burned CDRs the player can play appear to be TDK 650Mb blue dye discs.

That rings a bell, I've not used audio CD-R for years as it's been obsolete for a long time IMO and superseded by other technologies.

I seem to recall some old players could only read blue dye CDR's due to the Laser which others have pointed out earlier. For further reading see here about older blue dye and current dyes:

http://www.americal.com/pg/cd-r-faq.html