On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 04:16:31PM +0100, Steve Fosdick wrote:
Writable CDs don't seem to be a good proposition as the media seem to be rather fragile, being particularly vulnerable to temerature cycling. A week in the car seems to be pretty good at turning an audio disk that plays flawlessly into one where the player can't even read the table of contents. The drives to write the media also seem to wear out pretty quickly.
I've got mp3 CD's in the car that were burnt at the same time as I got the mp3 player which was September 2003, the discs still play fine (apart from one that got scratched). Burning at a slower speed with decent media does make a big difference. If your car CD player doesn't like them then it's probably more down to the CD player laser not liking the discs I'd suggest a different media and burning at single speed.
Adam