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Posted by Lira on Oct-31-2002 17:51:

Weird problem with CD players

I burned a cd, but I've been having a very weird problem with it. Everytime I play it in my discman, it gets stuck at 2 min 39 sec, however, when I use any ordinary sound system, it plays perfectly fine. I thought the discman was damaged, but it plays all my other CD's... does someone know what may be happening? Why does my discman hate only this disc?

Thanks in advance

PS.: I did use the search engine

Posted by Critical7 on Nov-02-2002 00:29:

Hmm. What speed are you burning the disc at and what program are you using to burn it? Could be that the media can't handle a higher burn speed and on a discman (which can be flakey sometimes) it might be going "What the..?" when it comes to a certain point where the burn might be a bit shakey. Some cheap car stereo systems seem to be like this too, as I have unfortunately found out with some of my burns :/

Posted by jp on Nov-02-2002 00:39:

Burn a 2x speed

Posted by Lira on Nov-02-2002 01:19:

hhmmm... I was burning at x4... I'll try x2 or x1

Cheers

Posted by flystyler on Nov-02-2002 12:36:

Thats bollox

Its the cd-r's u r using, discmans seem to be very sensitive, and mine wont seem to play certain 700mb cds. Very odd.

So i alaywas get high qaulity cd-r's like trax data or verbatim for audio stuff

Hope that helps, but i think its yr cds u use mate

Posted by jp on Nov-02-2002 13:28:

So if the CD-R is crap, burn at low speed

Posted by Lira on Nov-03-2002 05:50:

quote:
Originally posted by flystyler
Hope that helps, but i think its yr cds u use mate

I should stop buying CD's for 25 cents

Posted by flystyler on Nov-04-2002 16:57:

quote:
Originally posted by jploveparade
So if the CD-R is crap, burn at low speed

It doesnt matter wot speed u burn them at, a lot of walkmans wont even detect crap cds, so u have to use decent ones, not the crappy unlabelled crap i used to use

Posted by shac1234 on Nov-06-2002 21:51:

I have seen this problem many times as well. I don't think it is the burn speed either. Its not the CD because when I add it to the tracklist it will only show the shortened time, even though the Mbs are much bigger. Maybe it is a software problem, I usually use Easy CD creater. I think some Mp3s have problems when converting.
The latest PVD set from Nova969, I got it off of Djmixes2k and the MP3 is fine, but when I try to put it on a CD I can only get 41 minutes.
What I have done in the past is if it cuts out very near the beginning I will split the MP3 remove the first 5 minutes or so and then bring it back together.

Posted by jp on Nov-07-2002 01:00:

if your files mean a lot to you, buy quality stuff. For a CD you burn to listen to for a week, get cheap ass CD's

Posted by Lira on Nov-07-2002 02:57:

Yeah, I'll buy some better stuff next time

Posted by Stanza on Nov-23-2002 17:49:

I think it's just the nature of cdr's not being compatible with all cd lpayers including Discmans, regardless of whether they're cheap or not. I've got a cd player that doesn't read some burnt Verbatim discs that well.

Posted by webmeister on Nov-24-2002 01:28:

Yeah .. I'd agree that the problem is probably the CD itself if you're only burning at 4x. If you have a new-ish burner, you shouldn't get problems burning at less than 20x...

Posted by U121 on Nov-26-2002 21:21:

It could also be because the original file (was it .mp3 ? ) could be on a variable bit rate... some portables doesnt like that and simply hangs...
mine does but only on those that has been of a variable bitrate...
dunno why but perhaps youve gotten the same problem...

Posted by Lira on Dec-03-2002 04:09:

quote:
Originally posted by Xo|oX
It could also be because the original file (was it .mp3 ? ) could be on a variable bit rate... some portables doesnt like that and simply hangs...
mine does but only on those that has been of a variable bitrate...
dunno why but perhaps youve gotten the same problem...

No, it wasn't a mp3 disc. It was an ordinary audio disc.

Posted by U121 on Dec-03-2002 06:30:

no, i didnt mean like that, i understood that you werent burning an mp3 disc but the files containig the music were mp3:s before you burnt them onto a music cd, right?
if the original mp3:s where on a VBR some cdplayers doesnt like the variations in soundquality and hangs...
thats what i meant.