On Sat, 06 Mar 2004 02:09:05 GMT, "oodler"
wrote:

I've got a rather unusual question.

I'm not exactly sure when this started happening, but my estimate is it's
been going on for over a year. Every burned CD in my CD case has, over time,
begun to degrade. At first it was only a couple here and there, and new CDs
would work fine, but lately even stuff that had been working before has
begun to wear down. And these aren't old CDs or crappy media, either. Most
tracks on most discs have this huge annoying hiss in the background until
the song ends, only to begin again with the next song. It didn't happen at
all when the discs were first burned, so the only explanation I can offer is
that maybe, when passed en masse through an X-Ray machine at an airport, the
discs might have degraded.

Any thoughts? Anything that can fix this? Any idea what it is or what could
be causing it? Please?

oodler




All my recordings on Penco disks were unreadable after a year of
storage in a dark airconditioned room. Verbatim disks recored on the
same burner at the same time are fine. Chuck