CD-R's from New Burner won't play on old Pioneer Head Unit

[Freebird]

Here's my situation:

Recently my old computer died - I had it for 3+ years, and had an external
CD burner which I used to make obscene numbers of CD's that played without a
hitch in my again (the thing is 4+ years old) Pioneer head unit. When the
old computer died, I bought a new one with a standard internal CD burner.
However, the CD's that the new burner creates generally refuse to play in my
head unit, and it ends up spitting them out. The CD's which I made with my
old burner still play with no problem though. I've tried everything I can
short of buying a new stereo that I can think of (although I think thats
that I'll have to resort to). I've changed the burn speeds, changed CD-R
brands, and made sure my head unit was clean, all with no improvement. Does
anyone have any ideas on what I can do about this and why its happening? If,
as I suspect, I'm forced to buy a new head unit, what are some good solid
recommendations for head units that'll sound great without breaking the
bank? (I don't have any fancy amps or anything - just the Pioneer head unit
and the 4 matching speakers, which has always been plenty loud enough and of
good quality sound etc. etc. for me)


Thanks!

[anon]

Are you using the same burning software? Make sure you are finalizing
the cd and using Disc At Once (DAO) mode. Try copying a known working
cd. If the copy works, then you know its a setting somewhere in your
burning software.


-Jeff

Freebird wrote:
> Here's my situation:
>
> Recently my old computer died - I had it for 3+ years, and had an external
> CD burner which I used to make obscene numbers of CD's that played without a
> hitch in my again (the thing is 4+ years old) Pioneer head unit. When the
> old computer died, I bought a new one with a standard internal CD burner.
> However, the CD's that the new burner creates generally refuse to play in my
> head unit, and it ends up spitting them out. The CD's which I made with my
> old burner still play with no problem though. I've tried everything I can
> short of buying a new stereo that I can think of (although I think thats
> that I'll have to resort to). I've changed the burn speeds, changed CD-R
> brands, and made sure my head unit was clean, all with no improvement. Does
> anyone have any ideas on what I can do about this and why its happening? If,
> as I suspect, I'm forced to buy a new head unit, what are some good solid
> recommendations for head units that'll sound great without breaking the
> bank? (I don't have any fancy amps or anything - just the Pioneer head unit
> and the 4 matching speakers, which has always been plenty loud enough and of
> good quality sound etc. etc. for me)
>
>
> Thanks!
>
>
>