[BC] Sony CDP-D11 Puzzle

[Mark W. Croom]

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Subject: [BC] Sony CDP-D11 Puzzle


> Here's another for the trusted brains..WVCH's FM sister, WSJI, has a Sony
> CDP-D11 for its cd player. One of the local ministries brings in tapes 
> that are
> noisy so I try to clean them up withAdobe Audition and burn to cd. I  want
> to use rewritable cd's so as not to waste discs. Every time I burn to a 
> cd-rw,
> I  get  a Disc Error message on the Sony's screen. Should I burn at less 
> than
> 16 x for the player to recognize the audio?
>
> Dave Gardiner
> n
> WVCH 740/WNWR 1540
>
> Philadelphia

When you consider the time you spend fighting the machine (and re-writing 
the files on CD-R disks so they'll play), I wonder if using re-writable 
disks is false economy. I agree with those who suggest that the player 
probably won't deal with CD-RW disks. The firmware in many of the players 
I've been around won't even play CD-R's unless they're finalized. You can't 
finalize a CD-RW, I don't think. I haven't even played with a CD-RW disk in 
about three years. I normally only burn perhaps a half-dozen to a dozen 
CD-R's per month.

Reducing your burn speed will help clean up little errors that show up when 
you rip in a CD-R disk (digital audio extraction), but probably won't solve 
your CD-RW problem. CD-R disks are so cheap nowadays--consider your time 
(including dub, cleanup, and CD burn), add in the cost of that CD-R blank, 
and figure out what that disk is as a percentage of the whole job. I'm 
guessing it's in the very low single digit range. I wouldn't consider that 
worth fighting for. Throw the disk away when it's done or put it in your 
library and don't worry about it.

We have the burn speed issue with a programmer here that has a weekly church 
service on the station every Sunday morning. We run their previous week's 
service, which they burn to CD after church on Sunday and mail to us. We 
then rip that in and do some editing before it hits the air. If they burn at 
anything over 12x, no matter what brand of blanks they use, we have problems 
with the disk. Sometimes we can just do an analog dub and it'll be OK. Other 
times, we've got to get them to send another disk.

A couple of times a year somebody new ends up doing the burning at the 
church, and they don't turn down the burn speed before starting the 
recording. It bugs some of those folks that they have a 48x burner and can't 
use it at full speed, but when you consider the cost of doing it over again 
that little bit of time isn't a very big deal.

Mark
MN