i've got a dodge car CD player ($30 bucks c'mon! :) and it doenst read burnt cd-r's. what i'm wondering is if there are any cd's u can buy that are good enough to read or if there any tricks to doing it? cheers.

change the laser power of you car cd player...

Ya My old car CD-player did that (now In ym g/f's car). There were even some originals CD's it didn't play. I was going to try some of those $5/cd "made for audio" ones to see if they worked but I never got around to it.

I believe that your problem will lie with the refective colour on the back of the cd. Most audio cd's are silver, while cd-r's are usually blue or gold or whatever. Therefore the laser required to burn these is different to those of commercial laser burners, the different pigmentations requires less power to burn the cdr.


most current generation devices will play cdr's, so the only solution id to play originals or buy a new cd player for your car, preferably one that also plays mp3's.

i dont think colour has anything to do with it...i know with dreamcasts you can muck around with the laser and increase its 'power' so it can read cd-rw's aswell, id say the same thing applies to s*** and good cd players

Color makes all the difference

yeah it's not a good cd player tho :P
he is correct tho it would have to be silver, so i'll pick up a "audio" cd sometime and have a go

buy a new one. my car cd player can read cdr's and cd-rw's too....I think it's pioneer or something.

its a $30 cdplay, sif it would even play!

off a mate u tool
sif anyone would make a brand new palyer for $30

I'd say he knows that, but if you bought a 30 dorrah cd player anywhere it's a good bet it's not the best. Though even s*** cd players should still read cdr's these days

it was $30, u cant even get a am/fm radio that cheap :D see my logic?

it was $30, u cant even get a am/fm radio that cheap :D see my logic?

Actually I bought a tape/am/fm radio for the sierra a couple of weeks ago for $25 :P

Just go and get a decent cd player, thats prolly the only way its not going to skip, and it will play your cds

alittle fiddling is all it takes

Most audio cd's are silver, while cd-r's are usually blue or gold or whatever. Therefore the laser required to burn these is different to those of commercial laser burners, the different pigmentations requires less power to burn the cdr.

Aren't commercial cd's printed?

explain

as I understand it, comercial cd's are actually stamped like wafers not burned as we know it.

correct

commercial cds are "stamped". in fact i wonder if (another thread) the cds that shatter are commercial, and ones that don't are cdr's or something.

anyway. point being, commercial cd's have pits, or some form of physical stamping anyway, done to them. cdr's have a light sensitive material in them that is adjusted by the burner to, as i gather, either reflect light or not reflect, indicating binary, 0's and 1's, i presume.

this is mostly in response to sd gundam's question, and an explanation to everyone else who doesn't know.

squarky - i believe audio cds may work - i personally am skeptical of them, however i have read that they are made more specifically to work with audio players, such as car cd players.

so trying one can't hurt, anyway.

Maybe the link I posted would have been that explanation, so here it is again.

CDR's explained


Also I do believe that mass produced cd's are pressed, but the reflective surface (the shinny bit) has already been (for want of a better word) burnt before being combined.