What the fuck?!? I’ve fucking had it with this shit!
I subscribe to a radio show that offers each day’s show in MP3 format for download with all ads cut out. I’ve decided it’s much easier to just burn it to disk and listen to it in the family room than set up wireless speakers. The only problem I’ve really hit is the fact it takes 4 CD-R’s each day to burn them. That’s 20 disks a week that can never be used again and end up in the landfill. I’m no rabid environmentalist, but as a conservationist I just can’t see creating that much waste if it can be seriously curtailed.
So I figure I’ll use CD-RW’s. I can use the same 4 disks for an extended time before having to toss them. Except, well, they don’t fucking work!
Let me give the stats. I have a LiteOn DVD +/- R-RW burner. It supports up to 24x CD-RW. I’ve tried (Yes, I see the pattern here) Memorex 4x CD-RW as well as Memorex 24x “Ultra-speed” CD-RW. I can burn to both right out of the box. I can even, most times, erase the disk and reburn with great quality. However, it’s when I get to the third burn.
The motherfucker will not work. On any of the disks. I can see getting one or two bad disks out of a bundle of five. I’ll give up 40% of my cash if I can just get the fuckers to work! Maybe it’s got something to do with brand incompatability?
FUCK THAT LITTLE NOTION!!!
These fucking things don’t work in the Memorex DVD RW burner mounted right below it. Granted it only writes DVD at 2.4x, hence the LiteOn, but I fucking know Goddamn well it can write to a 4x CD-RW! Of course, that’s assuming it will erase the fucking 4x disk. Which it won’t. Which is now beginning to spin me off into a plane of insanity I never thought could exist.
In case anyone is wondering, I’m not exactly using an off-the-wall brand of software to do this with. I’m using Nero. The 6.whateverthefuck version. And I’m starting out with each reburn by doing a full erase of each disk. Not a quick erase. Furthermore, unless the software itself is a lying assbag, it confirms the fucking thing is empty before I attempt to do the burn.
I don’t even know where to go from here. I’m about to give up on the RW disks and just fill the earth with my liottle silvery disks of laughter for future generations to find. They’ll probably marvel at how many disks could possibly amass in one area with ‘AOL’ printed on them. (Maybe I should label them all Straight Dopers so we can be remembered after the Stoopids breed us out)
I’ll take any advice on this. I’m truly at a loss. I want to call Memorex about it, but they only man the phones during the hours I’m at work. And considering the criminally insane invective I’d spew, I’d more likely be shot than fired by my coworkers. Out of pity. They like me.
Man this shit pisses me off!