Aiwa 370 - Best MP3 format information, and media question
asnyder(Harmless) posted this on Tuesday, 12th December 2000, 14:59
OK - here`s the key to getting the most with regard to CD formatting. If you use Nero, check the Joliet option, to use Unicode characters in the file names. You`ll now get the first 14 characters of each song, instead of the eight characters with the ~`s.
Now my problem - I have a Ricoh CD-RW that works fine, and some older "name brand" CD-R`s that work, but brand new Maxell CD-RW`s do not and two brands of cheaper CD-R`s do not (I`m in the US - brand names may vary?) Has anyone else had trouble with specific brands of blanks CDs?
RE: Aiwa 370 - Best MP3 format information, and media question
Carrot Cruncher(Competent) posted this on Tuesday, 12th December 2000, 19:21
I`ve had 3 Ricoh MP7040A-DP CDRW drives last year and they all went back with various problems. I bought mine freom Dabs Direct (UK) who informed me to keep away from Memorex/Samsung CDRW media after I found these wouldnt work in my drive! The final straw was when the supplied Ricoh CDRW disc started to play up. A similar experience occured with my second and the third just internally exploded before I got to test a CDRW.
Below is a section of the letter sent with my final returned Ricoh:
"The Ricoh Multispeed ReWritable CD media that comes bundled with the drive is very unreliable at 4x burning speeds. The drive is also totally incompatible with my Memorex & Samsung ReWritable CDs at any speed, producing between 1 and 5 errors per disc. I own Samsung and Memorex media exclusively!
Burning the ‘write once’ Recordable CDs is 100% successful but as I intend to use the drive mainly for ReWriting, this situation is most unsuitable. If you get the same results, I think the problem may lie with all Ricohs drives :(
Mitsumi CDRW Rocks!!!
RE: Aiwa 370 - Best MP3 format information, and media question
Jimbo :oÞ(Elite Donator) posted this on Tuesday, 12th December 2000, 21:40
>"Now my problem - I have a Ricoh CD-RW that works fine, and some older "name brand" CD-R`s that work, but brand new Maxell CD-RW`s do not and two brands of cheaper CD-R`s do not "
Thats because Maxell CDR`s are crud! I`ve had the same problem with Maxell, Kodak and Samsung branded, and as I have a SCSi drive, I found that the unbranded ones I was using were Samsung too! ( I got a wee proggie that reads the ATiP from a disc with a SCSi drive..manufacturer info!)
I only use TDK SONY and PHILIPS branded now...never had a problem! My cheapies are now Traxdata, which I have also never had a problem! And by cheapies, I mean 36p a disc..my sony/tdk/philips average about 80p a disc.
And due to the initial points on your thread, I may have to try this Nero thing again.....
