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Can CDRs be played on regular cd players?

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aesthete8

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Nov 7, 2009, 11:57:29 PM11/7/09
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Or is special equipment/attachments needed?

wkasimer

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Nov 8, 2009, 1:07:52 AM11/8/09
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On Nov 7, 11:57 pm, aesthete8 <art...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Or is special equipment/attachments needed?

Unless they're MP3-encoded CDR's, virtually any CD player should be
able to handle them. The only players that might balk at CDR's are
very old ones.

Bill

wagnerfan

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Nov 8, 2009, 4:40:13 AM11/8/09
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And many portable CD players will also play MP3s e.g. some Sonys Wagner
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Bill Anderson

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Nov 8, 2009, 8:29:00 AM11/8/09
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On Nov 7, 10:57 pm, aesthete8 <art...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Or is special equipment/attachments needed?

I had an old Denon player I bought in 1987 - it had no problem at all
with CDR's. It could not, however, handle CD-RW media.

Norman Schwartz

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Nov 8, 2009, 9:20:48 AM11/8/09
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My 'original' Bose WaveRadio/CD plays CD-R but not CD-RW, I assume current
models can.


Mr. Mike

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Nov 8, 2009, 5:42:54 PM11/8/09
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On Sun, 8 Nov 2009 09:20:48 -0500, "Norman Schwartz"
<nm...@optonline.net> wrote:

>> I had an old Denon player I bought in 1987 - it had no problem at all
>> with CDR's. It could not, however, handle CD-RW media.
>
>My 'original' Bose WaveRadio/CD plays CD-R but not CD-RW, I assume current
>models can.

When I play CD-RWs in my old Sony CD player, it might start to play,
but then usually the disc starts to crap out.

If I play the CD-RWs in my DVD player or my car's CD player, they
generally work OK, though if the CD-RWs have any scratches, this can
cause strange things to happen.

Mike

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Nov 8, 2009, 7:10:41 PM11/8/09
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I tried both in my Thorens TD-126 with Shure V-15III. CDRs provided
better antiskating adjustment than CDRWs until I coated the edges of
the latter with green magic marker.

Bob Lombard

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Nov 8, 2009, 8:05:58 PM11/8/09
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And of course you allowed the stylus to contact the green dye. Before
you play an LP with that stylus, it must be scrubbed thoroughly with 600
grit sandpaper. If you don't, chances are that, instead of music, you
will hear Richard Nixon say "I did not lie. I said some things that
later seemed to be untrue".

bl

GP49

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Nov 9, 2009, 1:44:48 AM11/9/09
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However if you are using a DVD player to play your CDs, there are some
DVD transports that won't play CD-R discs. Embarrassingly this
applies to some DVD models from the elite audio manufacturer
McIntosh. Some of their DVD players from a few years ago won't play
CD-Rs. Regular CDs and CD-RWs, and of course DVDs, yes. But CD-Rs,
no. It appears to be dependent upon the DVD pickup that they used in
those units.

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