Recording Help

[wwskinn3]

I download audio books on CD to play in my car while on the road. I never had any problems until recently. It seems that whatever I down load cannot be read by the CD player in my car. I get a message that says "Bad Disk". I also tried copying a DVD of a movie that I recorded from TV - this won't play on anything except the DVD recorder that I recorded the original on. Evidently, something has recently changed because I haven't had any trouble in the past. Can anyone help me! I don't have anyone to ask.

Thanks - appreciate whatever advice you can give me. WALTER

wwskinn3@yahoo.com

 

[mcmetal]

are you downloading them & then burning to disc? could be that you're burning to disc in the wrong format.a cd player that can only read cd audio won't read mp3,wma files.is your cd player able to read other formats?you may have to burn to a readable format.

 

[wwskinn3]

I download them from Audiobooks.com to my computer. I then use iTunes to load them on a CD. Used to work fine but doesn't seem to work now. As far as I know my CD Burner in my computer reads whatever I put in in. I downloaded some songs from my computer to a disk on my computer and it plays fine in my car ???? When I download an audiobook to my laptop then put it on a disk it works fine - takes forever but it works.

As for the DVD - I copy a movie on DVD from my satellite receiver. It plays fine on my recorder but when I put it in my computer it says there is no data on the disk??? I copied it using Roxio disk copy and it still works on my recorder but nowhere else.

Appreciate any more help you can give. Seems to me that when I downloaded data to a disk at work that there was a box or something I had to check to make it readable on all other computers - if I have such a thing at home I don't know it.

 

[dizzywiggle]

Walter,

Don't fret, mate. It's not just you. Every DVD and CD player I've ever owned has eventually given me grief with recordable media. I think the combination of time and dust just makes it difficult for these things to properly read the dye layer. Funny thing....the CD player in my Jeep will only read CD-Rs if it's over 30 degrees outside. haha.

I've never done it, but it might be worth trying one of those laser lens cleaners. Memorex makes one for DVD/CD players...you can pick it up at Amazon for $8 + s/h. If you try it, let me know how well it works for you.

-Shane
(www.theweelollies.com)