Anyone else have this problem?

[BobSD]

I have trouble finding alot of CDs locally, so I signed up to Rhapsody for two years now. What is so great I can reveiw the CD before I buy it and all my purchased Cds are four star or five. You cannot tell the difference in quality. They all have been playing well in my $100 DVD player and my five player CD-Yamaha. But when I tried to play it on a higher end Sony DVD/CD player, ES DVP.NS9100 it would not play alot of my computor purchased CDs. I heard it is not good to put labels on the CDs, so I use the lightscibed CDs, but they can be be used for audio, and pictures. Should I be using only 100% audio CDs, would that make a difference??

 

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CD playability

Commercial store-bought CDs seem to play in any player. Home recorded CDs are more touchy. I have a factory in-dash CD changer in my 2009 Toyota that plays home recorded CDs in the morning commute while the car interior is cool, but fails to play them on the evening commute when the car interior has heated up all day. For now I have been using commercial CDs with no problem. I have an Aiwa CD changer built before computer CD recorders became common and it won’t play any home-recorded CDs. I had a trunk-mounted Sony CD changer and it would play everything without problem. My Samsung DVD player plays everything without problem.

I recorded a lot of CDs with sticky-back paper labels and they have never been a problem or got stuck. Once I read they posed a potential problem, I switched to using Sharpie markers. I have also found that some of my earlier home-made CDs are starting to become unplayable, so there appears to be a 15-20 year shelf life on some blank CD brands. I can’t tell which brands because I put the stupid labels on them. Hope this helps.