format a CD-RW?

[JethroUK]

I am having trouble burning a CD-RW (with DVD writer) as standard Audio CD
to work in my ol' CD player

I have tried about 10 times using two differet brands of disc

They all fall at the 1st fence - the CD player doesn't even spin them a
whole turn - it spins them less than half turn before spittin them out

I also noticed today that it's possible to format a CD-RW disc - but would
that make a difference

 

[ArameFarpado]

Em Segunda, 17 de Dezembro de 2007 23:56, JethroUK escreveu:

I am having trouble burning a CD-RW (with DVD writer) as standard Audio CD
to work in my ol' CD player

I have tried about 10 times using two differet brands of disc

They all fall at the 1st fence - the CD player doesn't even spin them a
whole turn - it spins them less than half turn before spittin them out

I also noticed today that it's possible to format a CD-RW disc - but would
that make a difference

you should not format a disc to create a cd-audio, it won't be a cd-audio at
all.

maybe you're cd player can't read that type of disc at all... old cd-drives
didn't.
use plain cd-r instead

 

[Universe_JDJ]

I am having trouble burning a CD-RW (with DVD writer) as standard Audio
CD to work in my ol' CD player

I have tried about 10 times using two differet brands of disc

They all fall at the 1st fence - the CD player doesn't even spin them a
whole turn - it spins them less than half turn before spittin them out

I also noticed today that it's possible to format a CD-RW disc - but
would that make a difference

If you're CD player supports using CD-RW, it'll generally say somewhere
on the unit itself (or in the manual.)

 

[JethroUK]

If you're CD player supports using CD-RW, it'll generally say somewhere on
the unit itself (or in the manual.)

I thought the whole idea of 'Audio CD format' was to create a CD that is
compatable with 'conventional' CD players - is that not the case?

 

[Robert Martin]

CD-RW are not very compatible
Use CD-R to create a audio CD that will play in ALL players

However I have used ITunes to burn a CD-RW that worked fine
in several players.

Robert

 

[Frank Slootweg]

I thought the whole idea of 'Audio CD format' was to create a CD that is
compatable with 'conventional' CD players - is that not the case?

'Audio CD format' is needed for nearly all CD players, except the
newest ones which *specifically* say that they support MP3 CDs.

*In addition to* 'Audio CD format', you must (as Universe_JDJ
indicated) use CD-R (recordable, *not* re-writable) media for most CD
players - especially older ones -, except for the ones which
*specifically* say they support CD-RW.

I.e. if you have no specific information about your "ol' CD player",
then you must use 'Audio CD format' *and* CD-R media.

FYI, my "ol' CD player" behaves exactly the same as yours, i.e. it
spits out any CD-RW that I put in (and CD-R works fine).

HTH.

 

[JethroUK]

'Audio CD format' is needed for nearly all CD players, except the
newest ones which *specifically* say that they support MP3 CDs.

*In addition to* 'Audio CD format', you must (as Universe_JDJ
indicated) use CD-R (recordable, *not* re-writable) media for most CD
players - especially older ones -, except for the ones which
*specifically* say they support CD-RW.

I.e. if you have no specific information about your "ol' CD player",
then you must use 'Audio CD format' *and* CD-R media.

FYI, my "ol' CD player" behaves exactly the same as yours, i.e. it
spits out any CD-RW that I put in (and CD-R works fine).

I tried a CD-R and that works fine - so i'll stick to those now