Question about which CD's to buy to burn CD's to so they'll play in home/car/etc...CD players?

You need to use CD-R not CD-RW cd's.

Along with CD-R's, you have to burn at a relatively slow speed.  Except for some newer car CD players, most won't play home burned audio CD's over 8X or 12X.  Same with many home audio CD players, older ones are more sensitive to the burned speed.  I have an instrumental CD that I sell at concerts and I burn them at 8X to be on the safe side.  I use to burn at 12X but I had one come back for "skipping" so I went to the 8X as my "standard".

One other issue, many owners manuals for car in-dash CD players have a caution to NOT use paper labels on the CD's, just use a magic marker pen to note what it is.  If the paper label comes off inside the CD player it's a major job to get the radio repaired and $$$$

Fireberd,

 

Thanks for the tip....I couldn't get my audio CDs to play in my stand alone player.....guess I was burning too fast (should have figured it out:  my old burner burned at 8x and the CDs worked fine).  I'll  give it a try.

 

Michael

TEAC DVD+RW DV-W58E/Dim4600/2.66/512

Actually I had a lot of problems playing CD-R's in a stand alone Sony player. Although most of the software tells you that CD-RW will not play in car or home players CD-RW's do play in my Sony unit. A lot of this is trial and error especially with older hardware. Newer stand alone players should not have any issues with CD-R's and may even play them with MP3 files burned onto them. That's one feature to look out for if your buying a new stand alone player.

Tried to burn at 8x....disc plays in th computer (and a discman), but not in my stand alone cd player or a dvd player that plays cds.  Any thoughts anyone??

Some older CD and DVD players just don't play some CD-R's.

Like I mentioned already you could try CD-RW's a bit more expensive but still cheaper than buying another copy of the original.

Also try some different makes of CD-R. The cheap CD-R's that are manufactured today are notoriously variable in quality and some different makes may be more compatible than others. Just don't buy them in boxes of 100 in case this doesn't work.

I have a Sony DVD player which will play a really old CD-R, new CD-RW's but no recent CD-R's. It's a lottery.