On Fri, May 09, 2003 at 11:55:09AM -0300, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: > Hello > > After burned my CD with musics using xcdroast, I faced with the > following problem: I can listen the CD in any computer, but the sound > player machine at home doesn't resolve the tracks! The player can play > the entire CD, but if you want to play a given track, the player > doesn't find it, it keeps finding for ever... May be the tracks are too > close one to another, that the machine cannot resolve them. Is > it possible? The CD was burned in DAO mode > Thanks in advance for the help! The track spacing is fixed: the blank CD is manufactured with tracks at a certain spacing, and the CD writer cannot change this. The spacing is a standard, and is the same for all CDs, whether factory-pressed, CD-R or CD-RW. (Note: 99-minute CD-Rs use a tighter track spacing than the standard. This not only means that audio CD players can't play them, some computer CD-ROM drives don't like them either. You're not using 99-minute CD-Rs, are you?) Unfortunately the optical properties of a CD-R are not identical with those of an ordinary, factory-pressed, "silver" CD. Some audio CD players appear to use optical blocks of ancient design which cannot read CD-Rs. (Perhaps this is done deliberately to stop people copying music?) There is considerable variation both in audio CD players and in CD-R blanks, so it is not possible to say anything more generally helpful than: usually it works, sometimes it doesn't, experiment with different brands of CD-R and different audio CD players. The optical properties of CD-RWs are different again, and it is very hard to find an audio CD player that can read CD-RWs. cdrecord handily tells you who really made the CD-R you're using... recently I have burned Infiniti, Dysan, Philips and some unbranded CD-Rs. cdrecord tells me they were ALL made by Ritek Corp. The general view seems to be that Ritek are crap, but unfortunately you can't find out whether they made a certain blank except by buying it first... Having said that, I personally have had no problems with them. cdrecord also tells you what dye system the CD-R uses, which is useful information when you're experimenting. Have a search on Google for sites with detailed instructions on copying Playstation games - Playstations, quite apart from their copy-protection measures, are members of the set of CD drives with crappy optics, so some of these sites have useful recommendations of good varieties of CD-R. -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons Get my GPG key here: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x21C61F7F
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