Do burned cd's mess up cd players?

[CasioTech]

I was fiddling around with some new burned cd's I got, and then my cd rom drive broke.

I then tried it on an old cd player (it's music) and within 3 hrs. it broke that too!!!

What could it be?!?!

 

[Workin']

Bad luck? Never heard of a problem like that. Almost anything is possible, I suppose.

 

[CasioTech]

^

 

[Dark4ng3l]

I dont think it can barke the thing. Unless the cd is physicaly defective(like too big and it would damage the small motor inside)

 

[WarDemon666]

I have a problem similar to this too! When i play a burned cd on my sissy's cd player (sony discman) and it always skipped!! Then when i put a normal cd it worked perfect! On my cd player it works fine though, Guess it might be the laser.

 

[Dark4ng3l]

No thats normal certain cd players/cd roms have trouble reading burned cd's. These are generaly older drives though.

 

[CasioTech]

war.. Mine too!!! I have a relatively new sony, but it can't play cdr's?!?! It starts to crash at the end of songs...

about the cd prob... Interesting thing isn't it!

 

[fs5]

cdrs will skip in some cd players, try burning at a slower speed.

 

[Kaan]

Hey, I actually had something like this happen to me too a while ago.
I tried playing a CD-R on my DVD-Player (Panasonic A-350), and it totally freaked out. Had to take it back to the store, where it took them 3 months to repair the damn thing (turned out the laserhead was fried).

 

[Platypussssssss]

Kaan: CD-R's are not supposed to work in Panasonic's DVD players. Most other brands can read CD-R's though.

 

[Zucchini]

all newer cd players can do cd-r Its just older units that have trouble. Also, dvd players generally can't because they use a different laser. They don't claim support anyhow.

 

[(M)]

Not necessarily old vs. new (although older units do tend to have problems). When I went shopping for my wife's car CD player, I brought along the crappiest "Hi-Val" burned CD I could find. I tried different units until I found one that would play it - Pioneer, as it turned out (even the most expensive Sony wouldn't play it).

My Toshiba DVD only plays the cheap 50/9.99 CompUSA CDR's. It won't play any other brand I've tried...Go figure.

BTW, I've been playing burned CD's in my car for over 3 years and never had any 'damage' caused by the media played. Sounds like tough luck to me.

(M)

 

[CasioTech]

you say that it fried the laser??? That's weird, since it's just a light..

How could a cd do that?

And how could a CD rom damage cd's, like I heard in some cases.

 

[Suki]

Some DVD player can read CDR and CDRW. Just to make sure it says in the box. My pioneer434 DVD player can play CDR.

 

[Bakwetu]

I'm not shure if it's true, and I don't want to try it, but I've read that you can trash a cd player by playing a data cd on it, so I guess anything is possible.

 

[CasioTech]

yeah, how could you? I mean logic would seem that it would only not read it...

 

[Viper GTS]

I've played data CD's in audio CD players before, it did no damage.

Either it won't read it at all, or you'll get a steady buzz off of it. I've only found one or two players that would read data CDs.

Viper GTS