What if you don’t have a USB?
If you don’t have the audio files as MP3 then where possible please use
original CDs
rather than burned CDs/CD-Rs. CD-Rs have thinner surface
layers for data storage and are more susceptible to damage and scratches.
When the laser is slightly out of alignment (as is the case in the left deck right
now) or if there are micro scratches on the surface, the audio player can have
difficulties.
If you really MUST use burned CDs though please try these tips:
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Make sure you are using a single use CD-R rather than a rewritable
CD-RW.
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Make sure the disc is “finalised”, this means you cannot burn anything
else onto the disc after the original burn.
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Make sure you are burning as "Audio CD" format not DATA.
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If neither of the above works, it may just be that the brand of CD-R disk
you are using does not work well with the audio player. This happens
sometimes with budget discs. Try a different brand. Cheaper white
labelled brands have more trouble than established brands like Sony or
Memorex.
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Burn at a slower speed! Try burning a disk at 1x (rather than 4x or 8x
or whatever speed your burner drive supports). Very often audio CD's
burned at slower speeds will work in audio players while discs burned
at higher speeds won't. It's been said that the laser encoding is
somehow "clearer" when burning at slower speeds and this helps audio
players, which often have a problem with home-burned CD's, to cope
with the discs.
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Ensure you record all your audio CD's in "disc at once" mode, meaning
the whole disc is burned in one pass without turning off the laser. Audio
players like discs burned like this better. If you burn the disc "track at a
time" the laser is turned off between each track, and audio players
often cannot find any track other than the first one on such disks.
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If all this fails
use the Laptop
to play CD’s.
