On Thu, 11 Nov 2004 06:26:02 +0000, Martyn B Tindall wrote:

A mate of mine says his CD player has packed up and blames a faulty CD-R
given to him by a mutual friend. The same friend has given me lots of
CDs, and many of these suffer from skipping/jumping/noise. I suspect it's
because our friend uses the cheapest available blanks.

I'm concerned because I've just spent a lot of money on a CA Azur player
and don't want to put it at risk. Is my mate talking nonsense? Any
thoughts?

Almost certainly coincidence. If you ever watch the CD-ROM drive in a
playstation you will see just how much hammer these mechanisms can take.
Some CD players can't read rewritable CDs at all though and some of the
older ones even have problems with CD-R disks. After all, they were
designed to play audio CDs.

If your (very recent model) player has problems reading his disks then it
is probably his disks that are at fault. Sounds like he has a problem at
his end.

--
Mick
(no M$ software on here... :-) )
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