format a CD-RW?

I am having trouble burning a CD-RW (with DVD writer) as standard Audio CD
to work in my ol' CD player

I have tried about 10 times using two differet brands of disc

They all fall at the 1st fence - the CD player doesn't even spin them a
whole turn - it spins them less than half turn before spittin them out

I also noticed today that it's possible to format a CD-RW disc - but would
that make a difference

Em Segunda, 17 de Dezembro de 2007 23:56, JethroUK escreveu:

> I am having trouble burning a CD-RW (with DVD writer) as standard Audio CD
> to work in my ol' CD player
>
> I have tried about 10 times using two differet brands of disc
>
> They all fall at the 1st fence - the CD player doesn't even spin them a
> whole turn - it spins them less than half turn before spittin them out
>
> I also noticed today that it's possible to format a CD-RW disc - but would
> that make a difference

you should not format a disc to create a cd-audio, it won't be a cd-audio at
all.

maybe you're cd player can't read that type of disc at all... old cd-drives
didn't.
use plain cd-r instead

JethroUK wrote:
> I am having trouble burning a CD-RW (with DVD writer) as standard Audio
> CD to work in my ol' CD player
>
> I have tried about 10 times using two differet brands of disc
>
> They all fall at the 1st fence - the CD player doesn't even spin them a
> whole turn - it spins them less than half turn before spittin them out
>
> I also noticed today that it's possible to format a CD-RW disc - but
> would that make a difference

If you're CD player supports using CD-RW, it'll generally say somewhere
on the unit itself (or in the manual.)

"Universe_JDJ" <> wrote in message
news:...
> JethroUK wrote:
>> I am having trouble burning a CD-RW (with DVD writer) as standard Audio
>> CD to work in my ol' CD player
>>
>> I have tried about 10 times using two differet brands of disc
>>
>> They all fall at the 1st fence - the CD player doesn't even spin them a
>> whole turn - it spins them less than half turn before spittin them out
>>
>> I also noticed today that it's possible to format a CD-RW disc - but
>> would that make a difference
>
> If you're CD player supports using CD-RW, it'll generally say somewhere on
> the unit itself (or in the manual.)

I thought the whole idea of 'Audio CD format' was to create a CD that is
compatable with 'conventional' CD players - is that not the case?

CD-RW are not very compatible
Use CD-R to create a audio CD that will play in ALL players

However I have used ITunes to burn a CD-RW that worked fine
in several players.

Robert


"JethroUK" <> wrote in message
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>
> "Universe_JDJ" <> wrote in message
> news:...
>> JethroUK wrote:
>>> I am having trouble burning a CD-RW (with DVD writer) as standard Audio
>>> CD to work in my ol' CD player
>>>
>>> I have tried about 10 times using two differet brands of disc
>>>
>>> They all fall at the 1st fence - the CD player doesn't even spin them a
>>> whole turn - it spins them less than half turn before spittin them out
>>>
>>> I also noticed today that it's possible to format a CD-RW disc - but
>>> would that make a difference
>>
>> If you're CD player supports using CD-RW, it'll generally say somewhere
>> on the unit itself (or in the manual.)
>
> I thought the whole idea of 'Audio CD format' was to create a CD that is
> compatable with 'conventional' CD players - is that not the case?

JethroUK <> wrote:
>
> "Universe_JDJ" <> wrote in message
> news:...
> > JethroUK wrote:
> >> I am having trouble burning a CD-RW (with DVD writer) as standard Audio
> >> CD to work in my ol' CD player
> >>
> >> I have tried about 10 times using two differet brands of disc
> >>
> >> They all fall at the 1st fence - the CD player doesn't even spin them a
> >> whole turn - it spins them less than half turn before spittin them out
> >>
> >> I also noticed today that it's possible to format a CD-RW disc - but
> >> would that make a difference
> >
> > If you're CD player supports using CD-RW, it'll generally say somewhere on
> > the unit itself (or in the manual.)
>
> I thought the whole idea of 'Audio CD format' was to create a CD that is
> compatable with 'conventional' CD players - is that not the case?

'Audio CD format' is needed for nearly all CD players, except the
newest ones which *specifically* say that they support MP3 CDs.

*In addition to* 'Audio CD format', you must (as Universe_JDJ
indicated) use CD-R (recordable, *not* re-writable) media for most CD
players - especially older ones -, except for the ones which
*specifically* say they support CD-RW.

I.e. if you have no specific information about your "ol' CD player",
then you must use 'Audio CD format' *and* CD-R media.

FYI, my "ol' CD player" behaves exactly the same as yours, i.e. it
spits out any CD-RW that I put in (and CD-R works fine).

HTH.

"Frank Slootweg" <> wrote in message
news:...
> JethroUK <> wrote:
>>
>> "Universe_JDJ" <> wrote in message
>> news:...
>> > JethroUK wrote:
>> >> I am having trouble burning a CD-RW (with DVD writer) as standard
>> >> Audio
>> >> CD to work in my ol' CD player
>> >>
>> >> I have tried about 10 times using two differet brands of disc
>> >>
>> >> They all fall at the 1st fence - the CD player doesn't even spin them
>> >> a
>> >> whole turn - it spins them less than half turn before spittin them out
>> >>
>> >> I also noticed today that it's possible to format a CD-RW disc - but
>> >> would that make a difference
>> >
>> > If you're CD player supports using CD-RW, it'll generally say somewhere
>> > on
>> > the unit itself (or in the manual.)
>>
>> I thought the whole idea of 'Audio CD format' was to create a CD that is
>> compatable with 'conventional' CD players - is that not the case?
>
> 'Audio CD format' is needed for nearly all CD players, except the
> newest ones which *specifically* say that they support MP3 CDs.
>
> *In addition to* 'Audio CD format', you must (as Universe_JDJ
> indicated) use CD-R (recordable, *not* re-writable) media for most CD
> players - especially older ones -, except for the ones which
> *specifically* say they support CD-RW.
>
> I.e. if you have no specific information about your "ol' CD player",
> then you must use 'Audio CD format' *and* CD-R media.
>
> FYI, my "ol' CD player" behaves exactly the same as yours, i.e. it
> spits out any CD-RW that I put in (and CD-R works fine).
>

I tried a CD-R and that works fine - so i'll stick to those now