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