Digital music forum: why do some CD-Rs play in truck cd player and some don't

http://www.cdrfaq.org/ notes this issue.

I found some improvement by recording at 1 or 2X and changing media brands. There is no known cure short of changing the player.

Bob

Been there done that: I went through different brands of CD-Rs and recorded at different speeds... it was wasting alot of discs and my time....
I found that only good quality discs/slow burns worked in my car CD Player.. That was until I put a disc cleaner through my player (several times) and now it will play everything and anything.

Worth a try......

Spike2k5

have you converted it to wav or use nero 6 which is a great buring tool, as it can make audio cd which play in all cd players and when you add it , it can normalize all the tracks, so there play at the same volume as song sound files might be diffrent volume, it also give you the optoin of having pause or or not bewteen music or more options.

I used to be a engineer for CDR/W software for many years when CDR/W technology was developed. Here's the scoop. Most CD player manufactures use firmware writers right out of college to save money. Seasoned firmware writers ask for too much gold and move on. The learning curve for working firmware code is 6 months and mature code about 2 years.
The problem is time to market, so many players are shipped using firmware the has trouble reading unfamilar formats or if a bit is switched because of dirt, it doesn't know what to do.(bad error correction algorithm). CD players that has been around for a while have these bugs and features fixed. Buy from a mature model from brand name supplier and keep it clean. The previous post about cleaning the player was good advice. Usually, if you pay little more, you'll get what you expect.

Some incompatability has to do with file types. Many CD players will not play MP3 format data - regardless of their age. My car is a 2005 model, I don't know who makes the CD player but I am assuming it is fairly new. It plays CD/R WMF format files just fine but won't do a thing with MP3s - same media type and recorded on the same CD/R drive. If you are converting to MP3, try leaving the file in WAV or WMF format - might make a difference.

Some players won't play MP3 at all, we all know that.

My experience with ROXIO EAsy CD Creator suggested you transfer MP3 files to RAM memory, then burn the final disk from there. That always worked for me. Audio is different than data recordings.

Also, let's not forget our default record settings that says Finalize the Disk or Leave it Open (for adding recording later...) If the disk is not Closed or Finalized, it probably will give you trouble in some players.

Everyone forgets to clean the player! There's some good advice in this thread today...

Jan

My car stereo is also a changer and NAV system. I recorded a CD, combining a two disc set into one, maxing the time to 79 min. It didn't play in the car. A few month later, a paper label in the CD changer prompted a replacement of the entire unit. Guess what, the CD played in the new unit. My silly, wild guess is that the new unit, which was identical in every way I could see, probably had a new version of firmware.

I could see how different dyes and manufacturing techniques could make a CD-R unlpayable in some devices, but theoritically, if the dics carries the Compact Disc logo, then it meets the same specs the hardware is using. Therefore, I would guess that the problem is 60% hardware, 40% disc related.

There's no way to play CD-Rs in any radio. A CD must be finalized to be played. Once it's finalized, it's no longer a CD-R. Now it's a CD-ROM. That means nothing on it can be changed. It still may say CD-R on the label, but it's really a CD-ROM. By the way, ROM means Read Only Memory.

Since the OP said he used Nero to burn his CD's, the details of your advice seem wrong. In general terms it's OK, of course: check that you burned an audio CD, not a data CD.

Kees