Audio CD Burns

[rraehal]

I have only purchased regular Data CDR's in the past and continue to do so. I have recently began making my own mixed CD's from other CD's. Are Audio CDR's better in any way?

I ask because I have burned two CD's. Each CD will play perfectly in my car CD player and both my home and work computers. If I try to play the CD on my regular home stero equipment (2 different players) i get weird results.

One CD will play the first track perfect and half the second track and will not play anything else in either home system. The other CD will not play in either home stero system.

Will and Audio CDR correct this?

[evry1si9]

Alright,

Data CD-Rs and Audio CD-Rs have different recording layers. Audio CD-Rs are made for the sole purpose of being able to be played in any format/strength laser reading device.

Very likely, Audio CDs will correct your problems with that.

Another thing that will help is getting new audio equipment because most of the newer stuff doesn't have any problems reading data cd-rs.

~evry~

[Ammok]

i got one stereo system that just will not play any audio cd I make, all the others will. I might try some of those audio CDR's on it and see what happens.

[RayH]

Different recording layers is new to me. I understood the only difference was the audio disks were encoded to show a royality had been paid to compensate for loss of revenue.

As far as I know, the only device that it made a difference was the home CD recorders. They won't burn data disks.

[mpacey]

I burn to RICOH CD-R's, and they work everywhere.

[Swordfish]

if audio cd's are burned at slower speeds they generally tend to work in most recent as well as old cd players.

Once i had burned an Audio CD at 40x and tried to play that on an old audio cd player, it would skip and then play other numbers in the compilation.

If the same CD is used in a newer home system, it plays proper.

Then i burned them at 4x~8x, the older model didn't find any problems this time.

Same holds true with MP3 cd's.

Just my personal experience.

[rraehal]

I burned the CD at 8x. Will see if that makes a difference.

I have been using my DVD player since it is hooked up to my surriond sound system. The speakers sound as good as my regular system.

Thanks for all of your input. Maybe I will try a Audio CDR - but if it doesn't make a difference, never again.