CD burning problems....

[bryank]

I am using a Dell PC and all of a sudden my cd burner is having some problems. In the past I have burned at 40x but I have recently been getting a lot of digital sounding errors on the discs and the discs have a hard time playing in many players. I bump the write speed down to 12x and the same problems still occur. Does anyone have any idea what may be causing this?

Thanks

[bothered]

Dirty lens?

[Thrax]

That was my thought as well.

[bryank]

Will a dvd cleaner disc work? I use it on my dvd player and on my playstation.

[Thrax]

Depends on how the disc is designed. If it has DVD content on it, it won't play in the CDROM. If it has CD content, then it will play. The only way to know is by trying; can't hurt either, worst it can do is not play.

[CB]

If it's just one of those discs with a stripe of little brushes, then it will definitely work.

[Guyute]

What blank CD's do you buy? Apparently cheap blanks give low-budg burns...

[bryank]

Guyute....I love Phish. I am actually trying to burn some Umphrey's McGee shows and they are all turning out bad. I have to borrow a dvd cleaner and try that yet. I gave my buddy a copy of the show that didnt play very well on my player and he said that his copy played fine. I tried in my cd player, my van, and my dvd player and there is a lot of digital noise on all of them. It has a hard time reading the tracks too. Anyway...

[MERRICK]

Just a far shot in the dark, do you have DMA checked for your CD player in device manager? I have found many nasty things result from this. Good luck?

I also heard that having buffer underrun protection can be a culprit for corruption but I don't remember where I heard it. Hmm... slysoft website?