why is it that when i burn a CD, and try to play it in my car on my CD player, the first few tracks skip REALLY badly. The first track skips all the way to about 2 minutes into the song, the second to about 1 minute, the third to about 40 seconds, and the skipping finally stops on about the 5th track. Can anyone tell me what the !@#$ is up?
How old is your car CD player?
Some models of CD player have difficulty playing CDRs because of the different reflectivity. Combined with the vibration-prone environment of a car, it may be that your CD player is at the limits of its capability (focusing on the track while riding out the bumps) in reading a CDR under those conditions.
Does this happen with regular CDs in the car CD player? Do the CDRs have difficulty in other CD players? What about CDRWs?
My car CD player is 1 year old. It’s a Jensen. Normal CD’s work just fine, even ones that have some scratches. The
CD-R’s work just fine in my stereo. i have an Imation CD-R that wouldn’t even play in my car, but it played real nice in my stereo.
My best guess would be either a dirty cd player, cheep recordable media, or a bad burn on the CD. do other cdr’s work fine? does that CD work well in a different cd player? from what you’ve described I would say its your cdplayer
This question comes up a lot. It could be a whole bunch of things, what cd writer are you using? what software? what record speed? what brand of cd? etc…in other words, youd do better searching the software manf’s site first…
I’ve had the same problem too and it is not a “cheap” car CD player- Its a fairly new Eclipse head unit. My WAG is that it is a combination of CD burner and car CD player. My reasoning:
-I have an older machine (P200 with Creative CD burner using Nero) that I used to use for burning audio CDs. In the card CD player most were fine, some had some skipping, a few were almost unlistenable due to skipping (these were typically cheap CDRs with a silver top that are very translucent when held up to the light- dunno if this was the cause or just a coincidence). All of these CDs play fine in my home CD unit. These problems occured no matter what burn setting (DAO vs. TAO, 2x/4x/8x) I used.
-My newer machine (Athlon900, Plextor burner using (ugh) Adaptec) burns audio CDs that have no problem being played in the car CD player or home unit. I dislike the Adaptec software as it doesn’t have the flexibility of Nero (can’t set varying pause times between tracks, doesn’t do CD text, etc…) but that setup burns problem-free CDs.
I guess it could be the software but I believe its more a problem of the CDR itself, possibly the (cheap) media doesn’t help either.
Try different brands of blanks and see if you have better luck with them. I have had “good” brands that wouldn’t play in all my players, but no-name generics that would play in anything. Experiment until you find what works.
My setup: I am using CDRWIN software on an AMD K6-2/550 writing to a SCSI Yamaha burner.