On Jun 24, 2010, at 4:45 PM, Bob Whiton wrote: > At 2:46 PM -0700 6/24/10, John Carmonne wrote: >> >> If you use AIFF and CDR disks and you have a problem playing you need a >> player, Almost all commercial CDs will play on anything, The trouble comes >> from the other formats >> and incompatible CDs. If you have a Mac compatible burner and iTunes you >> can't mess it up as long as you have AIFF files to burn. > > Perhaps true in theory, but not in practice, in my experience. I never had > problems with CDs burned in my old G4 tower with a Pioneer drive, but the > slot-loading internal superdrive in my C2D iMac burns CDs that give heartburn > to the player in my car and sometimes the old CD player I use with my main > stereo system. As I said in my previous post, changing CDR brands and burn > speeds makes a difference. I've never been too impressed with the slot > loading optical drives that Apple uses in iMacs and laptops. > > Bob > I agree about the Apple issue slot loaders new they're OK but in a while a Pioneer 118L or better is in order if you plan on any serious burning. I've had problems with all, other than Pioneer drives. All my PMs have 118L's and all my externals are also Pioneer I have 2 HP's for the Lightscribe capability. I burn a lot of media the only set tops I have a problem with as far as standard type disks playing are in the DVD stuff, It's really easy to make a mistake on CDs by burning MP3 to them I take extra care about that.A lot of folks don't run into it because most of the newer players play it, also all the kids have iPods and mostly MP3:-)
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