I never really thought about this till yesterday I burned some files on a CD and tried to use it in another computer. This is data not music, and it wouldn’t take. I tried another computer and I couldn’t get it.
Then I thought, these are pretty old computers, so I re-burned it at a speed of 8 and it works fine. My default speed on my burner is 40.
So I’m thinking it was most likely the speed, as the CD works fine in my computer, which is new I bought it in June 08.
I don’t really do much burning, so I was wondering just what makes the optimal speed for burning a CD? I’ve read some say that the slower you burn the better, other sites have said, it gives more chance for error reads.
What’s the SD on buring CDs. (And throw in DVDs too if you want, I don’t burn them except for backup of data)
Your cd burner drive will have a maximum burn speed you can’t burn faster than. The program will detect the CD drive limit. The cd blanks have a maximum burn speed you can use, so you should never burn faster than that. The dye in cd blanks vary so you may have to burn at a slower speed, also they may not work with the laser in the cdrom you’re trying to use. Older cd burners are way more likely to have a compatibility problem with the dye color than a new cd drive. The same happens for DVD burners.
Odds are teh burning speed has zero to do with it.
In addition to the wisdom HD provided, conssider this:
If the other computers are older, their CD drives may also be lousy at reading burned CDs. Back in the day, it was often the case that CDs burned in one partuicular computer would only read in another particular computer if the CDs were a certain particular brand.
As time has gone on, the drives have gotten less fussy, and the CDs have gotten generally more uniform in quality. Bt it’s still not a 100% slam dunk that any CD burned in any computer will play in any other. it’s maybe 95% now, versus 20% in the old days.
Always use the verify option in the burning software. If it can’t verify on the drive it was burned on, your chances of reading it on another are poor.
Just to reinforce the others, it is a matter of trial and error. I have found CDs burned at 52x will play in some CD players but not 8x , whereas 8x will work for others but not 52x.