thepadd
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Registered: 2nd May 04
Location: Nottingham Drives: Corsa C SXI 1.2 16v
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Got a Sony CDX-M630 and it realy doesnt like packard bell CD's it will keep giving me errors and spitting the CD out, but this is the weird bit, if I warm the CD slightly (car heater) then it will play
is it the player or just crap media.
on one CD where it skips now and then it will play about half a sec of a different track.
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Richie
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Registered: 3rd Dec 02
Location: Newport, Wales
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Its shit media, and a shit headunit 
go to http://www.ebuyer.co.uk/ and buy some decent cdr media 
Could also be the quality of your cd burner too.
[Edited on 12-08-2004 by Richie]
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gooner_47
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Registered: 20th Jul 04
Location: Bexhill/Croydon
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Go here - http://www.cdr-by-mail.co.uk/acatalog/CDR_By_Mail_Professional_CDR_6.html
Get the Taiyo Yuden CD-R's, top quality professional media.
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Ian
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Registered: 28th Aug 99
Location: Liverpool
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Try burning slower before you spend any money.
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thepadd
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Registered: 2nd May 04
Location: Nottingham Drives: Corsa C SXI 1.2 16v
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Its a pretty decent headunit, gonna have to change the CD brand.
cheers for that link gooner_47 should be most helpfull.
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drunkenfool
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Registered: 7th Feb 03
Location: Hereford Drives: Audi R8 V8
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I find that burning at slower speeds gives better results on my head unit so its worth a try. If i burn at full speed then i get loads of pops and crackles.
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MoNkEy MaGiC
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Registered: 12th Apr 03
Location: West - London Drives: Corsa GSi
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i really havnt got the time to burn slower!! as my maximum burn speed is 12x write takes 20mins to do a 80min cd!!
pc is bit out dated!!
my Alpine headunit was top of the range 3years ago and it wasnt actually meant to play CD-R/W's... but it did  but now it finds it hard to read the disks and just says error most the time, especially when its really hot, i guess burning them at slower speed could help out my head unit 
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gooner_47
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Registered: 20th Jul 04
Location: Bexhill/Croydon
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It's possible that the laser's gone on the HU - if it wasn't meant to play CDR's, then it damages the laser to read them because the grooves on the cd are so much closer together or sumthin like that. It'll play them for a while, but after time it won't - same thing happened to my m8.
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MoNkEy MaGiC
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Registered: 12th Apr 03
Location: West - London Drives: Corsa GSi
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^^^yes ive heard about this!!!
3years after i got my headunit it started to somtimes not play them, but only somtimes! then i used a CD LENS CLEANING CD! and it made it worse!  
but it seems ok again now, but i know one day its gonna pop for good!
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