ImgBurn 2.4.1
OS: XP Home SP2
Computer: HP Pavilion dv1000 (laptop), 1.5Gb RAM
DVD burner: Sony DVD RW DRV-840A USB (external drive, fresh out of the box)
I created a CD audio disk image using the laptop's internal drive, and burned a few CD's from this image on the internal drive successfully, and they play on all the CD players I've tried them on. I was also successful in burning the same image using an older external drive, but unfortunately it seems to have a mechanical problem and starts scoring the disks after it does a couple of burns. So I went out and bought 2 new, highly rated Sony drives as above.
The burns are successful, verification is successful, and they play fine on the computer and on at least one CD player, but they don't play on one particular CD player, ironically a Sony home theatre. The disk starts to spin up and the player is able to see the number of tracks, etc., but can't seem to find the start point. The disks I burned on the internal drive work fine on that player. Disks burned on either Sony drives are unreadable on the Sony home theatre system (also a DVD player, Super Audio CD player etc.).
So: same computer, same image, same OS, same ImgBurn software, same media, different burner.
What is your best guess as to what the problem is here? Is there anything I can tweak to achieve a better result?
In the interest of full disclosure, yes, I was burning to both Sony drives simultaneously, which turned out to be a faster way of creating a bunch of coasters. But at least one was burned by itself and it too had this problem.
I did not install any of the crappy Nero software that came with the drives, and afaict there was no Sony software that could be installed independently. XP seemed to detect the new hardware and recognize them. And of course the disks are good, on most players.
Thank you,
Tom