Klarinet Archive - Posting 000563.txt from 2003/10

From: Erik Tkal <bbtkal@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] CD Recording - vaguely OT
Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2003 09:42:25 -0400

At 07:57 AM 10/21/2003 -0400, you wrote:
>At 11:18 PM 10/20/03, you wrote:
>
>>This is National Chemistry Week, so over the weekend I burned 6 CDs with Tom Lehrer's song "The Elements" for my colleagues. Then I put one in each of their boxes and kept one for myself. During an idle moment in the afternoon I put the CD into my CD-ROM drive. It saw a 1 kB .cda file and nothing else. I've had this happen before and I've observed that a burned CD which plays on one machine isn't even recognized by another. I wish these things were produced fail safe, but they aren't.
>>
>>Oliver
>
>Must be too much Thoolium!
>
>George

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And iodine and thorium and thulium and thallium.

When you look at an *audio* CD with Windows File Explorer, that's exactly what you see - a bunch of 1K .cda files. Try playing the CD in a regular CD player, or even with Windows Media Player - I bet it works fine.

Now, there are differences in CD-ROM drive hardware where CDs burned by one drive may not be recognized on another; this especially occurs when trying to play some CD-R or CD-RW discs in an auto CD player, for example.

Erik Tkal

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