Cdr blanks?

Question

For years I've been buying Fuji cd blanks and stuck to Fuji. It said All Purpose 80 Min 700 mb. I had no problem, using it to record from Sony cd recorder/player. They must have taken it off the market. Bought Maxell CD-R also 80 min 700mb..but recorder doesn't record.Recently I bought TDK CD-R 80 min, 700mb and works fine...but it does say music on outer label.
So do I have to be extra careful in that it should say music or all purpose from now on? Wouldn't you think 80 Min 700mb would be exactly the same for ALL cd blanks?

Sony recorder is 4 years old.

I did find that the ones I can't use for recording music on recorder I can use for storing photos from computer.

Answer 1

I've had issues and I thought it was with specific vendors, but experience taught me that what made a difference was where I bought them. I had a high proportion of duds with media I bought from target. I think that their warehouse isn't climate controlled.

The "Music" ones are different. One bit on the first track (the track you can't write that identifies the media) identifies it as a "type 0" or "type 2" disc. The "Music" ones are type 2, or at least they are supposed to be (I've found a few off brands that aren't). More importantly look at the CD logo - it should say "Compact Disc Digital Audio Writable" - type 0 don't say "digital audio". So while they aren't really "different", there is a difference and your recorder may only work with type 2 discs.

Answer 2

In XP, in case you reproduction the full contents of the unique to the sparkling CDR, abode windows XP will save the contents in a temp report till you % to burn to CD, which will artwork.

Answer 3

I would think that CD-Rs are CD-Rs and should work all the same; the thing I would think could go wrong is the CD player not reading a burned disc, but I don't get it either. I have used Maxells and Sonys without problem; I would just stick to a type that works.