CD-R Media Quality

[Radar 0]

I have a relatively new HP 9110i CR Writer. When I had it working with NT I successfully created two music CDs from MP3s using Memorex 650Mbyte CD-R media (x1 write speed). Since I've upgraded to Win2K I've not been able to create any music CDs on three attempts;

1. MP3 to CD (x8 speed using Adaptec Easy CD Creator 4.02 Audio CD App). Got errors 80% into the burn. Disk is unuseable.

2. Direct music CD copy to CD-R (x8 speed using Adaptec Easy CD Creator 4.02 CD Copy App). Got errors 98% into burn, however, the CD can be played on a CD music player; only the last 4 tracks out of 24 have clicks, pops, and skips.

3. Direct music CD (same source CD as before) copy to CD-R (x1 speed using Adaptec Easy CD Creator 4.02 CD Copy App). This time I instructed CD Copy to copy to hard drive first. Got not errors this time, however, the CD can be played on a CD music player; only the last 4 tracks out of 24 have clicks, pops, and skips.

 

In all cases I used Memorex media. HP Support suggested I try media with a blue or green background. They mentioned that Memorex are not a high quality media. They suggest Kodac or Sony media.

 

Any substance to this?

 

Thanks,

 

Radar

[wind 0]

I have had a fair bit of experience with burning audio cds and playing them on cd players. I found that some of the cds that I used skipped and had various problems (kodak, pioneer, princo), but when switching to different types of cds (tdk and verbaitm) the problems went away. It has a lot to do with the individual cd player itself, and the quality of it, but I would have to say that blue die cd's have worked best for me. Burning cds at a slower speed also helps the overall quality of the media, or you could even use a special type of blank cds designed for audio (they're like $7AU over here, where normal cds are $1.80AU, owch).

 

note: kodak and pioneer cds have changed quite a bit since I last used them for audio cds and could be of decent/good quality now.

 

 

[This message has been edited by wind (edited 14 July 2000).]

[MarksmanX 0]

I have seen alot of burn problems lately with the HP burners this month. I do use Memorex 80min CDs and they work fine and don't skip or pop at all. Could you please tell me what soundcard you are using? I don't see the logic when it's working find in Windows 9X OS but when you upgrade to Windows 2000 the CD Recordables suddenly turn bad? This is clearly a driver and firmware issue (or hardware if it doesn't support Windows 2000). Did you do a clean install or just upgraded to Windows 2000? Doing a clean install is best to get rid of the old Windows 9X regestries which might conflict with Windows 2000. Also there is an update to 4.02C for the Adaptec Easy CD Creator. If you have haven't done these then it would be a good idea to try it If it doesn't work keep replying here and add more info(if something new happens).

 

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Supermicro P6DBE Rev 3.0 Motherboard

Dual Intel Pentium III 850

512 MEGS of ECC RAM

Sound Blaster Live!

Adaptec 29160 SCSI Card

GeForce 2 GTS 64MB

IBM DMVS18N Ultra 160 Hard Drive

Western Digital 20.5GB Hard Drive

Razer Boom Slang 2000 (USB)

Roland Sound Canvis SC-55

3COM 3CR990-TX-97 with 3XP Processor 10/100 PCI Network Interface Card

Plextor Plexwriter 12/4/32

Pioneer 10X DVD-ROM

Sony GDM-F500R Monitor

[ComputerMan 0]

hey man I have trouble already when i dont defragment the harddisk recording at 4x or when the harddisk is almost full.

Should you defragment the disk first and then if there is no relief, slow down at 4X.

[euankirkhope 0]

Hey! Don't knock Memorex, my trimaxx 200 CDRW/DVD hasn't ruined a cd yet, at full speed (only 6x) with some of the cheapest and rip-off media available.

[DeadCats 0]

I burn from 20 to 100 CD-R's a week using Win2K, ECDC 4.02c and an HP 8100i burner at 4x-speed, using Imation 74 Min CD-R's I buy in the 100-pack. I have virtually no bad burns. If you go here, you'll find some excellent information regarding CD-R and RW quality: http://www.cdmediaworld.com/

 

I'm burning straight from my HDD's to the CD-R, and I do keep my HDD's defragmented as much as possible.

 

 

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[sailmoon 0]

I have HP 8210 CD-Writer and i haven't any problem about burn. Some CD-Writer stop the burning when the power management is active. FOR EXAMPLE: If you set to suspend the HD or CPU after 15 minutes then your burn will stop because the datas are interrupt. Check the power management by Windows and your bios. About the Blank CD quality: If you have a corrupt blank cd, the burn process never begin. Memorex produce a good blank cd!

[lordcyber 0]

hey guys. don't feel bad. I have a piece of **** mitsumi 2801TE it absolutely will not burn to any other cd-r media except verbatim and the el cheapo HI-VAL brand that i can sometimes find at wal-mart. I mean it stinks big time that I have to only use these two brands. only good thing is I can buy the verbatim 50 pack spindles from sams club for like 26 bucks or the verbatim 20 pack jewel boxed ones from sams but hey when it's a 30 to 40 minute drive to sams and you're out of CDs and don't have time to go get em its a problem

[Damien 0]

I'm using TDK media (reflex X)with my HP cd writer (9200i) without any problems - TDK seems to work best with HP writers (IMO)