Now I have a new set of coasters...

[wshaffer]

Discovered this morning that the new pack of Maxell CD-R discs that I bought over the weekend doesn't play in my car's CD player, even though CD's from the old pack of Maxell CD-R discs that I've been using for years now played with no trouble at all. It's a pity that I burned 5 hours worth of audiobooks to disc before I figured this out.

A quick google suggests that my options are a) try burning the discs at a slower speed, and see if that helps or b) try different brands/sub-brands of CD-Rs until I find one that reliably works in my car stereo (and then buy a bunch of them).

Or there is option c) upgrade my car stereo system to one that has an iPod input, thus removing the need to burn stuff that I buy in MP3 format to audio CD in order to listen in the car. If I can do that without spending too much money, that might be the best option.

Comments

[brewsternorth.livejournal.com]

Gah, that sucks. Reminds me of the time when I was trying to transfer a text file on CD-R to someone else's machine and for whatever reason the CD-R was showing up as blank however hard I tried.

Option (c) sounds the best, if the one with the potential for the most monetary outlay in the first instance.

[brooksmoses]

Option d) would be getting one of the iPod-to-FM-radio adaptors, which take input from the iPod and transmit it on a very-low-power FM output that you can then pick up with the car radio. We have one, which seems to work pretty well, and was notably cheaper than a new radio.

[brewsternorth.livejournal.com]

Aren't they banned in some places because they may interfere with some radio frequencies? I know there was some paranoia which led to their being banned in the UK at one point.

[wshaffer.livejournal.com]

Actually, I have one of those: a Belkin Tunecast that I picked up back when I was commuting from Berkeley to San Jose. It allowed one to select from 4 different FM frequencies, none of which was free of actual radio signal for the entire distance of my commute. Still, I ought to dig it up and see if I can make it behave now that it doesn't have to span the entire length of the Bay Area. Or investigate newer models - perhaps they've improved them.