Problem burning 80 min of audio

[yellowperil]

I'm burning PNY 80-min CD-R's with a Yamaha 8424 burner using EZCD 4. No problems burning 74-min CD-R's or even < 74 mins of audio on the PNY's. But yesterday I attempted to record 78 mins and now the last song skips badly (Champagne Supernova, no less!). Rest of the tracks are perfect. Checked the bottom of the CD-R, no scratches or crap on the CD-R when it was burned, source data was clean as well. Anyone else have this problem with this CD-R or burner? My guess is the dye is unstable at the outer edges of the CD.

 

[Workin']

Does the 8424 officially support 80 minute CD-R's? That would be the most likely problem. If the blank CD is rated to hold 80 minutes, I would doubt it has anything to do with the disc unless you somehow got a bad batch.

 

[yellowperil]

The box says it supports 550, 650, and 700 MB CD-R's

 

[Mark R]

The 8424 definitely supports 80 minute discs.

Unfortunately, there are compatability problems with 80 minute discs because they don't comply to the CD specification. Skipping towards the end is a common problem. This problem is, however, related to the quality of the blank. Cheap nasty discs do this very frequently, whereas it is simlpy not a problem on high quality discs.

If you really want to use these discs, then you could try burning at a slower speed, e.g. 1x - sometimes this helps.