CD/DVD burner-car player incompatible

[mwerner]

My new DVD burner doesn't like my car stereo, it seems. Or maybe it's the program...

I put a DVD in the old rig so I could play Oblivion (only out on DVD), and it came bundled with Nero, a fairly well-established chunk of player/burner software.

I have always had problems with the Windows media player for recording CDs, lots of skips and pops even though the file was fine. Pretty much the same with the bottom-line Roxio CD software that came with the computer.

First CD I burned sounded fine in the car...For a while. Then it started dropping out, and finally spontaneously ejected. Felt quite warm to the touch. Would not play at all. Commercial CDs and CDs I've recorded before on Windows still play fine.
So, on suggestion, I tried recording at a lower speed, 8X (burner is rated at 16X). No help, CD would not play at all.

Odd stuff. Just re-did the same file with Windows, and it seems OK. Very inconsistent; one CD will be fine, the next full of skips and such.

Car player is some proprietary thing that came with the car; just a Hyundai logo on the front.
At least CDs are cheap; maybe I should spring for a different/better brand.

 

[ahgar]

i've got a kia and burned some cd's to listen to. at first they played fine but they got to where sometimes they would work but not others. took it back to the dealer and they replaced it. they then showed me a page from the manual that said in essence "don't use home burned cd's as this will void your warranty". don't undertand what difference there could be but oh well, guess i'll stick to factory recorded for now. later, ahgar
hyundai and kia are the same company so could be the same player.

 

[Cougar Allen]

It's the same kind of trouble we used to have with floppy drives ... there's a tolerance for alignment, and if one drive is at one end of the allowable range (or a little past it) and another drive is at the other end (or a little past) then a disk recorded on one drive can't be played by the other drive -- but the problem only occurs with those two drives -- either is fine when matched with any other drive.

So, which of the drives do you want to replace? You can make sure that's the problem by testing with other drives before you spend any money ... maybe you can trade one of them to a friend ...

 

[Gollnick]

First CD I burned sounded fine in the car...For a while. Then it started dropping out, and finally spontaneously ejected. Felt quite warm to the touch. Would not play at all.

maybe I should spring for a different/better brand.

That would be my suggestion. If the disk worked fine and then started to mess up, either the player had developed a problem or the disk has. Assuming that you've been able to play other disks in the player, then it's the disk.

As my sainted father used to say, "The joy of low price is quickly forgotten amidst the bitterness of low quality."