I recently joined the CD-Rom Burner club and purchased a Yamaha 2x
rewritable unit.
I've been playing with making compilations from my audio CDs and have run
into an intriguing problem. The CDs I've made play perfectly on my home CD
player, no skips, no misses, plays just like it should. They play perfectly
in the 32x CD player in the computer at home and in the CD player in the
computers at  work.

The problem is with portable CD players. The portable will play some songs,
not all, and not in any recognizable pattern. I've tried three different
brands of portables (Sony, Panasonic and Citizen) and all balk at playing
the ones I've burned. Sony out and out refuses to play those with a blue
dye, the Panasonic and citizen will play some tracks but not all. The
silver "dye" disks produces similar illogical results.

The software being used is Adaptec Easy CD Creator; the wav files on the
hard disk sound great; no errors were reported during the recordings;  data
disks have worked on all cd-roms drives I've tried. The problem seems to be
in the portables and the "dye" used on the blank cd.

Any thoughts on why this is happening, any cures, any hope?

Patrick Meyer
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  "2 + 2 = 5 for very large values of 2"
                   a Marshall Space Center engineer.
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