What brands of CDR's is everyone using?

Has anyone had success with Memorex, Maxell or Sony CD-R's?

I have used all three of them, but recently only use Sony.
Never had a failure with Memorex or Sony.

I also have used MMORE, Maxell, Vivastar and Nashua, which all produced some coasters or some of them did play in my CD-player, but not in my car CD-player.
That's why I don't buy those anymore.

The stupid thing with burners is that you have to find a combination that works perfect on your equipment (computer and CD-player).

What works perfect for me, doesn't have to work 100% for you.

M

I use only Memorex CD/DVD's & never had a problem with either.

I most often use Verbatims, because you can do LiteScribe on the back.

In general, most of the name brands work fine. I believe that you get better results with CDs specially designated for "Music," although I can't prove it.

I do wonder how durable home-burnt CDs will be. Commercial CDs that I bought 20+ years ago still play without a problem, but I have a funny feeling that may not be true for home-made ones.

Windows XP

I'm gonna give the bad CD-R's to my sister to see if she can use them on a PC.

Do you hate your sister or PCs or maybe both?

Those CDs probably have already been written to, while iTunes or another application tried to write to them.
So they have become unusable.

If you want to stay on good speaking terms with your sister, I recommend to throw them away. Or hang them in a Christmas tree in a few weeks 🙂

M

I was just kidding.

I've read your other post about the troubles with burning.
Anyway, if during your attempts to write on those discs, a real attempt was made, a tiny bit of information could already been written to the discs, making them unusable.
Of course you can give it a try on another computer, using another brand of drive. But usually you can only use them as a coaster though.

If you're interested in a more or less technical description of things that are involved in burning CDs and DVDs, these KB articles may be of interest:
About default optical drive burning speeds
About optical disc drive burning and write speeds
Factors that affect writing to or reading from optical media

I love Mac and have used it for years but I have a really good friend trying to talk me into getting a PC because he says they do a lot of things Mac can't.

I usually don't go into these kind of yes/no 'games', but people in my vicinity sometimes tell me the same. My reply: "Name one".
Often they tell me you can't get much software for the Mac (with 'get' they mean 'for free'). My reply: "I pay for my software".
Etc. etc.

Whatever you decide, have fun while using your computer, wether it's a Mac or a PC.

M