Burned CDs skipping

[JMath]

I'm sure this topic comes up a lot but mine seems to be a peculiar one. I have burned several CD-Rs for use in a car I just got and some of them are skipping. The strange thing is that some of them skip, some of them do not, but it's not an on-and-off thing, the ones that skip always skip and the ones that don't skip never skip, no matter how the car is being used.

 

I burned them all at 40x, so I decided to try burning one of the ones that skipped at 16x, but to no avail. One note is that the first few tracks skip the worst, whereas the tracks near the end are almost listenable.

 

I am using: Verbatim CD-R 700MB/40x/80min

Imgburn 2.4.1.0 on default settings

Creating a cue file from mp3s, then burning using the cue.

NEC DVD_RW ND-3550A

Car is 2002 Saturn, stock stereo, plays regular CDs fine.

 

Should I try burning at 8x? Not filling the CD with as many tracks? Different media?

Edited June 25, 2008 by JMath

[mmalves]

Does the CD play normally on a DVD player/computer?

[JMath]

Yes, the CD plays perfectly in my PC and in a Playstation 3.

[mmalves]

It seems your car's CD player is picky about media. Try using Taiyo Yuden CD-Rs.

 

For burning Audio CDs, usually the slowest speed available gives the best results. Also make sure you're using the latest firmware available for your burner (from what I could find it's 1.07).

[JMath]

I will try burning as slow as possible, if that doesn't work I guess I'll have to get different media. Where is a good place to find Taiyo Yuden? I can only find 100 packs and I definitely don't want to buy that many.

 

Thanks

[volvofl10]

depends where you live in the world really , give us a clue and someone may be able to advise you where to get them.

[JMath]

Ohio, U.S.

I've never heard of them so I'm assuming I'd have to get them online...

[JMath]

Alright get this, I burned the same cd at 8x and it skipped a little less than the previous two burned at 40x and 16x but still unacceptable. So I pick up one of the ones that had skipped that I had thrown on the floor of my car and popped it in. It played flawlessly. I put in another skippy cd from the floor...also flawless. This is ridiculous, I don't know if it was the sitting in the heat of my car for a couple days or just surface of the cd needing to completely solidify or something (completely guessing here) but they work. I guess now I know what I have to do.

Edited June 26, 2008 by JMath

[spinningwheel]

Ohio, U.S.

 

I get mine from:

 

http://www.meritline.com/cdr-cd-r-blank-me...iscs-disks.html