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Since discovering that I'd burned a load of CDs that won't play in my car CD player, I've done some experiments.
First, I discovered that if I took the burn rate all the way down to 1x speed, I could create CDs that would play in my car CD player - but with extremely poor sound quality.
Second, I discovered that switching to TDK-brand "Music" CD-Rs produced CDs that play beautifully, even when burned at max speed. Problem temporarily solved.
Alas, I can't re-burn the audiobooks that were burned to unplayable CDs, because I bought them from audible.com, which only allows you to burn a book to CD 1.5 times. (You can burn it once, and then you can burn half of it again - useful for replacing a couple of damaged or lost discs, but not very useful if your entire first attempt to burn the book was a loss.)
While I will be sending a politely worded email to audible pointing out that their DRM is preventing me from doing something entirely sensible and legal, I can't complain too much - I've known about audible's DRM policies all along, and have generally considered them an irritating but acceptable price to pay for being able to get a variety of audiobooks relatively cheaply and conveniently. However, this does serve as a reminder that if I really want to be able to do what I want with a piece of audio content, I'm better off getting it from other sources.
Still can't find the iPod FM transmitter I know I've got somewhere. It's looking like a better option all the time.
First, I discovered that if I took the burn rate all the way down to 1x speed, I could create CDs that would play in my car CD player - but with extremely poor sound quality.
Second, I discovered that switching to TDK-brand "Music" CD-Rs produced CDs that play beautifully, even when burned at max speed. Problem temporarily solved.
Alas, I can't re-burn the audiobooks that were burned to unplayable CDs, because I bought them from audible.com, which only allows you to burn a book to CD 1.5 times. (You can burn it once, and then you can burn half of it again - useful for replacing a couple of damaged or lost discs, but not very useful if your entire first attempt to burn the book was a loss.)
While I will be sending a politely worded email to audible pointing out that their DRM is preventing me from doing something entirely sensible and legal, I can't complain too much - I've known about audible's DRM policies all along, and have generally considered them an irritating but acceptable price to pay for being able to get a variety of audiobooks relatively cheaply and conveniently. However, this does serve as a reminder that if I really want to be able to do what I want with a piece of audio content, I'm better off getting it from other sources.
Still can't find the iPod FM transmitter I know I've got somewhere. It's looking like a better option all the time.
