The topic says most of it, but if you can't figure it out, do not buy memorex's black recordable cds. What these are are black labelled black backed (like the old Playstation disks) disks. They look really sweet but if you burn stuff to them, many older drives and the drive in the RX-8, will have problems reading them.

I tested this out this morning and my computer at home had no problems with the disks. My CD/MP3 player in my car, however, did. It would pop and crack and jump around the disc. So these really cool looking discs are probably totally worthless. I tried putting some of them into my computer at my desk and it sounded like a floppy drive trying to read a disk. It couldnt even open them up.

So it looks like older drives have problems with these disks.

I'm gonna take them back to best buy and tell them my drive cant read them.

 

Memerox black CD's hold up the best to thermal and uv degredation. I have had multiple cds last for years stored in my glove box. Most other CD's crap out in the mater of months.

 

Yeah those Memorex black CDs are actually quite good quality. Sucks that the 8's MP3 player can't read them. There's other factors to consider, too. What speed did you burn at? What speed are the CDs max rated for? Try burning at a slower speed. What software did you use?

 

I've used black Memorex for probably going on 2 years, unless it's something really special in which case I use Mobile Fidelity. But the black Memorex play fine in my non-Bose, '05 player. Maybe a difference in our players?

Stumped,
Bill

 

He has the MP3 player, Rotario. So I'm guessing he's burning the CDs as data...

 

A music CD is data too, but I didn't pay attention to the MP3 player part. My bust. Thanks for the clarification, khtm.

Bill

 

I was referring to the format that it is used when burning. Normal CD players can read audio CDs (.wav files burned in audio format as .cdas), but MP3 CD players also have the ability to read MP3s burnt as data. Obviously, normal CD players don't have the ability to read data disks. Which is what yours can't do but Ajax's should be able to do...

 

Understood. I'm a computer moron (if you couldn't tell already).

Best,
Bill