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In Reply to: RE: Rotel CD player not playing all ripped CDs posted by Postal Grunt on December 13, 2016 at 11:29:46
I've started eliminating some of what I thought might be at fault. I've tried playing one of the suspect discs and the original in both my desktop and the burner, using the Windows Media Player function that came with the desktop. No problems there so I think that it's rational to presume that neither of those two devices are at fault nor is the software.
While I've long used either 36X or 24X as the read speed and either 16X or 8X as the burn speed, depending on the condition of the original disc, and gotten good results, I was ripping and burning simultaneously. Since the practice wasn't broke, I didn't see the need to fix it.
The original discs were all cleaned with the same stuff I use for my glasses and then treated with Brillianize. The four CD-Rs that aren't being read came from the same stack of 100 CD-Rs that four successful CD-Rs from the same session originated. The stack came from the OP, KS Microcenter store where I've been buying CD-Rs for years.
The Rotel player still readily plays CD-Rs that were burnt before this problem occurred. Those CD-Rs primarily include the Sony, Phillips, Magnavox, RiData, and Windata brands. I haven't looked for any other stray brands that someone else might have passed on to me but I never had problems with those so I didn't spend the time to look. I haven't eliminated the player as the culprit since the suspect discs play through the desktop.
I guess the next step is to use one of the original discs to rip, then burn a CD-R in the both the burner and the internal unit of the desktop to see if the copies play in my Rotel unit. CD-Rs are cheap so there's no big loss if they don't turn out well.
The final step is to clean the lens in the Rotel. I have no faith in the efficacy of supposed lens cleaning discs because of a suspicion that they may knock the lens around and out of place. Opening up the case on the Rotel to access the lens is more of a nuisance than opening cases of other brands but that's what it looks like what it may take.
Are there any other variables that I might not have considered?
Follow Ups:
I got around to ripping and burning CD-Rs on both the burner unit, an old Mad Dog brand unit, and the internal CD/DVD burner in my HP desktop. The internal burner result played in my Rotel with no problem. The "Mad Dog" appears to be the culprit because even though the CD-R appeared to be successfully burnt, it failed to play in either of the burner units using Windows Media Player or my Rotel CD player.
Considering that I've had the Mad Dog unit for at least eight years, I'm not upset that it finally bit the dust. My next move is to go down to the Microcenter store in OP, KS where they have some LG burners on sale for around $24+TX with a one year warranty. At that price, it's almost a disposable unit but it will have to do until I need to find a laptop and some reasonably priced software.
My $20K TL0 wouldn't play Rounder Records CDs-nor half my CD-Rs
The 10 year old MacBook Pro spins them without a wimper
Go figure?
Goo luck with yours!
Des
Odd indeed- Des
You are on-track- Postal Grunt.
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