[78-L] CD-RW ADVENTURES

[Robert M. Bratcher Jr.]

At 08:47 PM 5/7/2010, you wrote:

>As this is a continuing thread I thought I'd add my tuppence fwiw.
>To date I've burned well over 1150 CDRs for myself with no apparent 
>failures. Three of these are  COMP USA 80 minute  CDRWs  recorded in 
>February 2002 from a multi Lp set.  I've just checked these and they 
>play perfectly. When I bought my first CD recorder many years ago I 
>was a complete novice with respect to CDR recording despite a 
>professional background in music, audio and recording. I read many 
>of the cautions about labels and pens on the web and have done my 
>best to observe them even tough I can't recall ever reading anything 
>on the subject on the web that seemed absolutely authorative. But, 
>as they seemed to make sense I wasn't about to take chances.  I have 
>very rarely ever used CD labels but have always used EXPO 
>VIS-A-VIS  water-based pens (available at Staples). Their only 
>drawback is that the   water-based ink  doesn't always "take" well 
>on  some CDR surfaces. I never use permanent marker pens and have 
>cautioned many friends to avoid their use. Usually this falls
>  on deaf ears and they continue on as usual. I also stay with "name 
> brand" media having been burned once on a repeat purchase of 
> no-name CDR media from a presumably reliable vendor. The first 
> batch was perfect, the second 100 percent useless.  I still have a 
> large batch of  blank Memorex CDRs which I'm using and are at least 
> seven years old and they are perfect. Other than the aforementioned 
> I've never had a problem with the well-known brands.

Other than those church sermon CDR's on unknown MID code media  I've 
had some discs I burned years ago go bad with full face labels on 
them that I have long since learned my lesson. No more labels for 
me!! Only a sharpie or inkjet printing.....

>The only CDR failures I've ever experienced are from a (presumably) 
>reliable and seemingly well established and well-intentioned source 
>that specializes in restoring old radio shows and recordings. I 
>haven't been able to determine whether their labels are printed on 
>the nedia or are the traditional stick-ons that they 
>print  themselves. A very large precentage of these CDRs have become 
>unplayable in my various players or developed severe distortion. I 
>can only assume that the labeling is at fault.

I'm sure it is. But then I'll bet you didn't think about copying the 
discs before they started to go bad. I didn't think about making a 
backup copy of the discs that went bad on me either.

Stay tuned....
>Jack Daney