[GLLUG] Re: cheap cd-rw drives

[bfdamkoehler at worldnet.att.net]

I tend to burn cds in batches. One for at home, one for the car, one for 
  at work, etc. I have noticed that the ones that I carry in the car go 
"bad" very quickly. The others of the same generate continue to play 
without problems for years.

Everything that I have ever read indicates that the quality of the blank 
media is something that you should pay close attention to.

I can't say that I have noticed any differences between the various 
burners that I use.



Matt Graham wrote:
> On Wednesday 23 June 2004 12:31, after a long battle with technology, 
> Scott Henry Harrison wrote:
> 
>>David Smith writes:
>>
>>>Nearly every time I burn a music CD it seems to skip after 1-3
>>>months of usage.  I'm wondering if the quality of the burner or
>>>blank cds has anything to do with this?
>>
> 
>>http://slashdot.org/articles/03/08/24/1253248.shtml?tid=126&tid=137&t
>>id=198
>>
>>My own experience has been that the quality of the CD-R matters
>>more than the quality of the burner.
> 
> 
> Even media from the same batch vary a lot.  The very first audio CD I 
> burned (April 2000, cheap Philips burner, 4x) is still good.  The 
> second audio CD I burned from the same batch of media at the same speed 
> died about a year ago.  The CDs were kept in the same conditions (in my 
> car) at all times.
>