Hi,

What colour are your TDK CDs? Are they blue?
I ask as I had a similar problem with my 8SE, and found a mention on the Web
of blue CDs being less 'reliable' than others.

This might be total rubbish, but it seems to be born out by my experience.

What happened was that I got a used 8SE, following listening to a friends
similar machine. My one would play commercial CDs fine but not a compilation
I'd made myself on a TDK (CDR-74). The same CD-R would play ok on my
friend's 8SE.
After a bit of hunting I found the thing about blue CDs. I then copied my
blue TDK CD-R to another CD-R which was uncoloured (white?) of Philips
brand. This one plays fine.

As I say, might be complete rubbish, but might be worth a try.
Incidentally, the blue CD plays ok in my PC, in my car stereo and in an Aiwa
micro.

Regards, John





"Simon Long" wrote in message
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Hi All,

Wondered if anyone else has had this problem. Last night I installed a
new CD-RW drive in my home PC (made by LiteOn), and burnt a couple of
discs just to check it worked.

I was using TDK 80-min audio CDRs, and the resulting discs played very
grudgingly in my Arcam Alpha 8SE CD player - it took a good 10-15
seconds to read the TOC, and 5 or 6 seconds to find a track. I thought
this might be a problem with the new burner, so I reinstalled the old
burner, and discovered that the same files burnt to the same type of
disk at a lower speed caused exactly the same problem. I then realised
that this is the first time I have tried an 80 minute (well, 79:40)
CD-R in the Arcam.

It has no problems with 80 minute original CDs (or 79:55 anyway, the
longest one I have). It also has never had a problem with 74 minute
CD-Rs, or even with short (~1hr) recordings on the TDK 80 minute
discs.

Is it just that my Arcam doesn't like 80 minute CD-R recordings? Has
anyone else seen this? The Arcam is flawless in all other respects, so
I am not really complaining - I'd just like to know that I don't have
to send the new CD-RW drive back!

Many thanks,

Simon