Whats the typical BLER (BLock Error Rate) for the media?
Some audio CD players (like the ones you’d find in a car stereo) have worked successfully with one brand of media but not another. There’s no “best” kind, other than what works the best for you. Some people have found brand X CD-R units work well with media type Y, while other people with the same unit have had different results. Recording a disc at 4x may make it unreadable on some drives, even though a disc recorded at 2x on the same drive works fine. To top it all off, someone observed that discs burned with one brand of CD-R weren’t readable in cheap CD-ROM drives, even though the same kind of media burned in a different device worked fine. The performance of any piece of media is always a combination of the disc, the drive that recorded it, and the drive that reads it. A number of specific discoveries have been posted to Usenet, but none of them are conclusive.
Some audio CD players (like the ones you’d find in a car stereo) have worked successfully with one brand of media but not another. There’s no “best” kind, other than what works the best for you. Some people have found brand X CD-R units work well with media type Y, while other people with the same unit have had different results. Recording a disc at 4x may make it unreadable on some drives, even though a disc recorded at 2x on the same drive works fine. To top it all off, someone observed that discs burned with one brand of CD-R weren’t readable in cheap CD-ROM drives, even though the same kind of media burned in a different device worked fine. The performance of any piece of media is always a combination of the disc, the drive that recorded it, and the drive that reads it. A number of specific discoveries have been posted to Usenet, but none of them are conclusive.
Some audio CD players (like the ones you’d find in a car stereo) have worked successfully with one brand of media but not another. There’s no “best” kind, other than what works the best for you. Some people have found brand X CD-R units work well with media type Y, while other people with the same unit have had different results. Recording a disc at 4x may make it unreadable on some drives, even though a disc recorded at 2x on the same drive works fine. To top it all off, someone observed that discs burned with one brand of CD-R weren’t readable in cheap CD-ROM drives, even though the same kind of media burned in a different device worked fine. The performance of any piece of media is always a combination of the disc, the drive that recorded it, and the drive that reads it. A number of specific discoveries have been posted to Usenet, but none of them are conclusive. Many people have reported that Kenwood CD players don’t deal with CD-Rs very well, while Alpine units play nearly everyth
