Re: Mark Heard Orphans List and CD-Rs playing with distortion

[Jonathan Dix <jdix01@mchsi.com>]

At 04:15 PM 12/6/2003 -0800, humans orphans wrote:
> What would be my simplest, or best,
> solution?  Find a CD player/burner that plays the CD-Rs OK and make
> copies onto new CD-Rs?  (I don't know how to do this in a computer
> burner, so I'm going to try with an audio CD burner.  So I have to
> use "Music only" CD-Rs, right?)  

well, sometimes with older players, they do better at reading CD-RW's
than they do CD-R's...the first thing i would try to do is making a copy
of one of the CD-R's over to CD-RW and see how that works...

part of that is with a CD-RW you are actually making pits in the layer of
the cd, versus a change in dye that happens with a CD-R.  For
example, I have a Philips Magnavox DVD player that will read CD-RW but
*not* CD-R.  That can depend on the laser of the cd/dvd 
player.

as to making a copy of your cd using your computer cd burner, it
shouldn't be too hard.  which cd burning program(s) do you
have?  I use Nero Burning Rom, and it works rather well for me...(I
could put some simple instructions up on my webpage, with screenshots, on
how to use Nero if you like...)

now, if the CD-RW works in your player, you might even try making another
copy of the old CD-R onto a new CD-R and see if that works.  (you
can always 'blank' or erase that first CD-RW and reuse it, so it's not
'wasted' if the process doesn't work--whereas, once you burn a CD-R, it's
done...)

It could be that the older CD-R's are having some problems...you just
never know on that.  I have had problem with some that i've burned,
and some of that is due to just carrying them around in my backpack for
too much time.  they have to be handled with kid gloves

--Jonathan Dix