On Thu, 2003-12-18 at 20:42, Ed Skinner wrote:
> I'm going to be burning some music(-rated) CD-Rs over the next couple of
> days. I have all the necessary steps and equipment and have done so before.
> But my question has to do with play-ability of the resultant CD-Rs on
> different players.
> Specifically, although my CD burner will burn at a top speed of 32X,
> will I get a "better burn" at a lower burn speed? I've noticed that some of
> the music-rated CD-Rs that I've made are troublesome on some audio players
> and was wondering if burning at a lower speed (on the 32X machine) would
> improve portability. ("Speed" is one of the parameters to the cdrecord
> command so I'm assuming I can specify a slower speed.)
> Anyone have any experience with this? Does it help?
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I tend to buy cheap CD-R drives and relatively cheap CD-R discs. Thus I
don't push the envelope by trying to go much beyond 16x and do
reasonably well (coaster percentages < 10%)
YMMV
Craig
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