I copied an old dbl set music cd I have and the new cds wont activate in my PC now, no matter what I try. The original cds activated by themselves in media player and play all tracs just fine.
The new CDs do play in my home Pioneer CD system just fine, all tracs playing thru. The new cd's play in my wife's kitchen cd player but it wont let trac 1 song play at all, from either of the 2 new cds, all the other tracs play fine. These same CDs wont activate in my 97 Tahoe stock cd player at all. This is weird. Any ideas?
The cd burner is an HP cd-writer 8200 using HP's Record Now software 'powered by Veritas' what ever that means.
How's that for the first question for the techy gurus? :beers:

As the CD player's you're using's technology gets older, they are less likely to play burned CDs, or in some cases, just play them correctly. Especially newer, higher speed rated CDs. I can give you the same example with DVDs, I make copies of all my movies on DVD, my 5 year old $400 Sony DVD player, would only play about half of the DVDs I burned and some of them not very well, but a $25 cheap player I bought for my son's room this year played them all just fine. I bought a new one for my living room and haven't had a problem since.

My 99 Explorer will play burned CDs, but will only play them out of the left channel, but it plays regular CDs fine. I replaced the head unit 3 weeks ago and it plays them all.

The problem you're having is the same as the above 2 examples, technology progression.

guess Im getting old then Chris , gezzz this stuff 'should' work just like gas bought in Montana runs in my car as good as the gas in Minnesota, but guess not so with electronics, grrr.

I re-read my post to you. I hope I got accross the point that it's not the electronics aging (as it sounded like I said when I read it again), but the fact that the technology in the older units isn't up to snuff for the newer technology.

of course the interesting part is the computer that burned em won't play them!

Have you tried just using windows xp explorer to burn em?

to clarify, I use an external cd burner its using the USB to connect to my PC, The original CD goes in my PC and the software steps me thru putting a blank CD in the external burner, then the copying goes on by itself and gives a green checkmark when done.
I get the drift Chris on older technology and newer sometimes not gelling, similar to why my backup CD that were burned with this same external HP burner using WIN98se wont read on my WINxp either. :(
I didnt know Jim that xp has a burner system in it. ??

yes, it does, it's ccompletely automatic, assuming windows recognizes and knows your burner.

If you pop in a blank cd, you'll get a window, the first choice is to "open an explorer window" or something like that. When you do this, a blank window with a burn button will appear. Drag your files in and press the button.

I have also noticed that sometimes the older players prefer CDs that are burned at a slower speed. 52x works in only the newer of my players. Usually somewhere between 24-40x works well. Might have to experiment to see which speed your player likes.

Ive had issues with different brands of CD-Rs also. Burned Sony's dont work well for me. Memorex has always been pretty good.


dave

Yeah, try lowering the burn speed and see what happens.

this is a 4 year old burner, top speed is 8x but I can try 2x and also try the XP burner like Jim suggests. I like trying different things to see what works. Thanks guys :thumbsup:

I know one problem could be a setting in the program you use to burn them that I have had many times. there is a setting, mode 1 and mode 2 and some players recognize some tracks with certain modes. see if you can find the setting or use a different program like nero or something!

While Ive got your attention guys, would this option for making our own CDs and DVDs be ok? Both Sue and I want to make our own CDs at times from our own data bases on our own PCs. Hauling a portable unit back and forth is a hassle. My old CD burner is old technology as evidenced by this thread. These are $89 and would install in bays currently available in our PCs. I ran the item thru Dell's matching program and these fit both our PCs so no fear of them not working properly. She has the Dell Dimension 4100 and Im running the Dimension 2400.
Ideas?
Dell cd/dvd burner (http://accessories.us.dell.com/sna/productdetail.aspx?c=us&l=en&s=bsd&cs=04&sku=A0397628)

or buying outside of Dell am I asking for problems? This memorex unit seems to be a good buy.
Memorex unit (http://www.circuitcity.com/ssm/Memorex-16x16-Dual-Format-Double-Layer-DVD-Recorder-32023292-/sem/rpsm/oid/116661/catOid/-12973/rpem/ccd/productDetail.do)

or on ebay is this Pioneer unit (http://cgi.ebay.com/Pioneer-DVD-R100-16x-IDE-Internal-DVD-RW-CD-Drive_W0QQitemZ140018864899QQihZ004QQcategoryZ4495 6QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem)

I have a HP DVD burner in my computer and am using Nero as the program to copy the DVD's and CD's and have no problem with it. It also has litescribe which when using the correct CD's can also burn the lables onto the CD itself. Nice, Maybe you might want to try the HP burner?

guess Im getting old then Chris , gezzz this stuff 'should' work just like gas bought in Montana runs in my car as good as the gas in Minnesota.

I seem to recall, in a previous thread, that you had a lot of trouble with that Montana gas.

I make copies of all my movies on DVD,

I don't mean to hijack this thread, but I've got a question. I just installed a new Sony DVD+-player and recorder in my computer. But everytime I try to copy a DVD, (unless it is one of my old porn movies) I get a message that says the DVD I'm trying to copy is 'copyright protected'. I've heard of folks being able to copy practically any movie. Am I doing something wrong?

No you just need to get a program to remove the copyright. Do a search for DVD43 and that is what you need. I got it off DVD43.com

I have same issue with my Pioneer DVD burner that has an 80 gig hard drive. I try to dub from a DVD to the hard drive then back to a blank DVD but it wont copy to the hard drive at all, same thing, copyright protected. Newer stuff has that protection and I guess I dont blame them.

No you just need to get a program to remove the copyright. Do a search for DVD43 and that is what you need. I got it off DVD43.com

Thanks. I went there and downloaded it and now it seems to work fine.