Vinyl CDs

[John Payne]

I recently bought, mostly for gimmick, the Verbatim Vinyl cd-rs. They
are obvioulsy not actually vinyl but have the fake record grooves on
the top side of the disc for that "retro" look. Anyway I burned about
five and did some quality control and realized that in several older
cd players the disc was not recognized and in newer ones it played
after awhile but if you scanned ahead or back it would sound slightly
distorted. Why? I burned the same tracks onto a TDK cd and they were
fine in all players.

[Ben Bradley]

In rec.audio.pro, (John Payne) wrote:

>I recently bought, mostly for gimmick, the Verbatim Vinyl cd-rs. They
>are obvioulsy not actually vinyl but have the fake record grooves on
>the top side of the disc for that "retro" look.

I think this is silly, unless they'll actually play at 45RPM.

>Anyway I burned about
>five and did some quality control and realized that in several older
>cd players the disc was not recognized and in newer ones it played
>after awhile but if you scanned ahead or back it would sound slightly
>distorted. Why?

Short answer: Because they're cheap CD-R's.

Long answer: http://www.cdrfaq.org

>I burned the same tracks onto a TDK cd and they were
>fine in all players.

Try burning them at 4X speed

> From: (John Payne)
> Organization: http://groups.google.com
> Newsgroups: rec.audio.pro
> Date: 20 Nov 2003 06:55:28 -0800
> Subject: Vinyl CDs
>
> I recently bought, mostly for gimmick, the Verbatim Vinyl cd-rs. They
> are obvioulsy not actually vinyl but have the fake record grooves on
> the top side of the disc for that "retro" look. Anyway I burned about
> five and did some quality control and realized that in several older
> cd players the disc was not recognized and in newer ones it played
> after awhile but if you scanned ahead or back it would sound slightly
> distorted. Why? I burned the same tracks onto a TDK cd and they were
> fine in all players.