Clients Having Problems Listening to Recordings

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Permalink Reply by James Malone on September 2, 2010 at 6:19am

Dennis, I found the following info helpful

* You forgot to select an "Audio" CD type when burning, and instead chose to burn a "Data" CD. Data-formatted CDs can not be read in a standard CD player.
* You burned to a CD-RW format CD. Most CD players will not read a CD-RW format. Use a CD-R format instead.
* Your player may not like the CD format. What size CD-R are you using? If you're using a 700MB capacity CD, try burning to a 650MB CD. Some players don't play well when given a disk capacity they're not expecting. Also try lowering the recording speed. Some car CD players will be fine with a CD burned using a 2x speed, but won't like using the same media recorded at 8x.
* You have an older-generation CD player (more likely) or CD burner (less likely). Older hardware doesn't always talk with newer hardware. If you have, for example, an older CD player in your car, it gets confused by the language contained on the young whippersnapper CD. Think of it as an "electronic generation gap". The solution in this case, sadly, is to get a replacement for your car's player.

Source: http://www.andybrain.com/archive/mb/burned_cd_in_car_player.htm

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Permalink Reply by Kelley Woods on September 2, 2010 at 6:30am

Hi Dennis,

I also had this problem until my teen son explained that I had to burn the CD as a "mastered" version. That's the prompt that comes up before you get to select the "audio" cd as described by James. Previously, I didn't even make it that far and the computer automatically made a "data" version. On the screen that offers to make a "mastered", you need to click the icon to expand the box...

Then, all of your recording troubles will float away... :)

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Permalink Reply by Dennis Atkinson on September 2, 2010 at 6:46am

James; Jay; and Kelley:

First off THANK-YOU very much for the feedback, as these are all things I thought just "magically" happened, and I can use these suggestions with the computer ...

I experience the same problem same problem with the recording equipment I have at the office. I use a Teak CDRW880 hooked into a mixer and professional microphone ...

James Malone said:

Dennis, I found the following info helpful

* You forgot to select an "Audio" CD type when burning, and instead chose to burn a "Data" CD. Data-formatted CDs can not be read in a standard CD player.
* You burned to a CD-RW format CD. Most CD players will not read a CD-RW format. Use a CD-R format instead.
* Your player may not like the CD format. What size CD-R are you using? If you're using a 700MB capacity CD, try burning to a 650MB CD. Some players don't play well when given a disk capacity they're not expecting. Also try lowering the recording speed. Some car CD players will be fine with a CD burned using a 2x speed, but won't like using the same media recorded at 8x.
* You have an older-generation CD player (more likely) or CD burner (less likely). Older hardware doesn't always talk with newer hardware. If you have, for example, an older CD player in your car, it gets confused by the language contained on the young whippersnapper CD. Think of it as an "electronic generation gap". The solution in this case, sadly, is to get a replacement for your car's player.

Source: http://www.andybrain.com/archive/mb/burned_cd_in_car_player.htm

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Permalink Reply by Jan Krüger on September 2, 2010 at 7:31am

Your recorder indeed takes care of all of these things automatically. The important things to note:

- Use recordable (CD-R) discs certified for audio. In general I have had good results with Verbatim-brand discs, though I can't say anything about their specialized audio discs. They are available as 25-packs (without cases): http://verbatim.com/products/detail.cfm?product_id=247A4480-1143-34...

- Be sure to finalize discs after you have finished recording them by using the "finalize" button (page 20 in the manual).

There's not much room for tweaking with your device, as far as I can see... so if that doesn't help, I'm not sure you can do anything to fix the problem short of getting different hardware... and even then there are no guarantees.

The only virtually certain way to get universally compatible discs is to have your CDs professionally mass-produced in a pressing plant.

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Permalink Reply by Cheryl Westley on September 2, 2010 at 8:20am

I have also had a problem with CDs not playing for people, so I appreciate this topic! In my [friend's] case it was probably an early-model CD player, but could also be the burn speed I selected.

I'll burn at slower speeds from here on out. Thanks, Dennis, for starting this thread. :-)

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Permalink Reply by Dennis Atkinson on September 2, 2010 at 12:57pm

Thanks Jan and Cheryl

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