CD Burning, how to get the most universal results?

[Gordon Pigeon]

Hello everyone

So I have had 3 laptop pc's over the last 10 years and everyone of the optical writing drives have been poor.

I'm having a CD pressed for a promotion i am doing. The CD is an Audio CD and I am supplying a pressing plant with a CDR to press from. The main problem is that I can't seem to burn a CD that is universal on pretty much every system. It is important that it plays on almost every laptop available and pretty much any old bog standard cd player.

I have a sony viao, which you would think would have a quality drive, but unfortunately not. It will burn my CD but it wont even recognise it when I put it back in. It also has trouble recognising some normal DVD's. The CD's I burn seem to work in the car, on the playstation 2 (wont work on the playstaion 1), DVD player, and a usb external CD drive. But not on another laptop I have which is a Toshiba. So I know it isn't universal.

Do you think if I got it burnt by my friend who has a Macbook pro, using say 'Toast' it would be universal? Apple stuff always seems to be fail safe in my experience.

I am familiar with the red book standard, but I can't seem to find any CDR's that are red book.

All help welcome

Gordon

 

[johnb35]

What brand and type of cd's are you using? Make sure you are using cd-r's as they are best compatible with everything.

 

[sho95]

It sometimes is as simple as using good media and speed of burning. What brand are you using.

 

[Gordon Pigeon]

i'm using a standard sony cdr 16x.

 

[sho95]

What program are you using to burn your CD's with? What year/model is your sony viao?

As for the media I meant MFG. SONY don't make any they just stamp their name on it.

Also have you check your drive on the Device Manager under IDE. It should be set on some type of DMA mode.