I have a 90 which has a cd player in it. When I burn CD's at home to play in the car, does the burn speed affect the CD play? On my itunes software on my computer, I can choose the burn speed. I didn't know if affects the quality or ability to play CD-R in older cars.

 

Nope, I burned hundreds of cd's for my 92 bose, worked great. Burn speed doesnt affect the reading of the cd you burned..You're only decresing your burn time when you burn at, lets say 8x compaired to 24x. The only thing that will affect burning of a cd is memory write buffer, and processor speed. If you have a computer over 300 mhz and at least 128 megs, you should not have a problem. Mind you, this statement is for CD audio only, not VCD, or SVCD.


Hope this helps ya.



snoopdan

 

Thanks

I finally got my audio system back together. Everything sounds great but I am having reading CDs that I have burned. Parts of the CDs I burn play fine, but the very opening tracks have static or do not start crisply.

 

What program are you using to burn with?

 

itunes

 

EEEK!!!! No wonder you are having problems. If you need nero, hit me up with a PM and a email address that can recieve an attahment over 10 megs (nero zipped up is 28 megs). Or we'll figure out another way to get you the software.


snoopdan

 

He may be stuck with iTunes because of Apples DRM =/

 

Thanks for your insight. Obviously I know very little about this.
To back up, when I pulled the main unit I took it to the local equivalent of the radio Dr. people recommend here. I specifically stated that I wanted the unit to be converted to play CD-Rs. There were other things wrong with the unit, and as it turns out, the speakers as well. Now everything works fine as far as playing regular CD's go. I also went today back to the repair place and he said he would be happy to look at it again....but that means pulling the thing.

So if it is simply what I am using to burn with, I would like to know that before I pull it.

Here is what I got. I have a desktop computer and a laptop computer. Both are windows based. The desktop has an extern CD burner which is fairly new. The laptop has a combo DVD reader/ CD burner. On both units I have itunes installed because my son has an ipod and I buy songs for 99cents. I also used itunes software to copy songs onto the computer off of a cd.

I also have Nero on the desktop and another CD burning program on the laptop.

I burned a CD on the desktop using itunes. It had problems finding the first track. The first three tracks sounded scratchy and skipped at times. Later tracks tended to be OK. That one was burned at "maximum possible speed". I repeated it at a slower speed ie 12x. There was a diffence in that it played better but it still was not perfect. Finally I burned a CD with about 5 songs on my laptop. That gave the CD player fits and it at times gave me error messages and spit out the CD.

I took all three CD's and they played fine on my wife's 99 Ford Explorer.

So now what it next move? Should I try burning something on Nero?

 

Im still rooting for Nero on this one. Ive never seen an apple software package that worked 100% correctly without massaging it. Next thing to look at if Nero isnt working for you, would be the media you are using. There is definately different grades of CDr's on the market, the companies have never established anything about metalized film qualities on CDr's.....if you dont beleive me, look at a cheap walmart brand CDr and compair it to a Maxell or Golddisk...I promise you'll be able to use the walmart bargin Durabrand as a pair of sunglasses. Then one more question, are you burning true MP3's or MP4's? I dont remember if Itunes uses that format or not. I try to stay away from anything media form that I have to pay for After that, im running out of suggestions, and the cd player may just have other issues still.


But nero is free, maxell's and golddisks are more expensive, and a new CD player is way cooler


snoopdan

 

I have burned lots of cd's on my mac using itunes & have had very few problems. I also run itunes on my windoze pc and same results.
I will admit that Nero is a better product, but iTunes will do just fine.
I believe the issue comes into play when you use an older cd player.
And by the way snoopdan I work in a mixed platform enviroment
Macs & Dells and find just the opposite when it comes to mac & pc
applications. I also find that macs are less expensive to maintain.

 

Im throwing out all my pc's right now. Thanks for the tip.