From owner-freebsd-questions Fri May 12 0:13:53 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from corinth.bossig.com (corinth.bossig.com [208.26.239.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 444CE37BCC0 for ; Fri, 12 May 2000 00:13:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kstewart@3-cities.com) Received: from 3-cities.com (unverified [208.26.241.39]) by corinth.bossig.com (Rockliffe SMTPRA 4.2.1) with ESMTP id ; Fri, 12 May 2000 00:18:33 -0700 Message-ID: <391BAF1C.FCA9D13A@3-cities.com> Date: Fri, 12 May 2000 00:13:32 -0700 From: Kent Stewart Organization: BOSSig (BOSS Internet Group) X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Bryan Liesner Cc: Joe Park , dan@mostgraveconcern.com, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Burning audio CD's References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Bryan Liesner wrote: > > On Thu, 11 May 2000, Joe Park wrote: > > >Hello, > > > >Well, I only used CD burner for data storage but my friend had similar > >experience. In his case, his burned CD won't play on any of his stereo > >systems but played fine on certain other stereo systems. I suspected that > >it might be the quality of CD-R he was using ( I think it was maxwell, not > >very sure though), and suggested him to try different brand -- I prefer > >Verbatim. And he successfully burned audio CD after that, without failing > >once. What brand of CD-R are you using? Try better quality ones. > > Well, I am using fairly cheap ones (Comp USA house brand - $19.95 for > 50, on sale). I use them for offloading data too, and have no trouble > with them at all data-wise. I even burned a 4.0-install CD from the > ISO image on the ftp site in case of emergency, and it boots and reads > just fine. I guess maybe audio players are more picky? Perhaps they're > designed that way to prevent copying? I have had the same problem. There are CD-R blanks called "Music CD-R's" that are supposed to be identified as you having payed a royalty and usable in your home A/V system. I purchased 10 of them but I haven't tried burning a CD using one of them yet. Kent > > ========================================================== > = Bryan D. Liesner LeezSoft Communications, Inc. = > = A subsidiary of LeezSoft Inc. = > = bleez@bellatlantic.net Home of the Gipper = > ========================================================== > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:kstewart@3-cities.com http://www.3-cities.com/~kstewart/index.html FreeBSD News http://daily.daemonnews.org/ SETI(Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) @ HOME http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message