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dubja - 30 Jan 2007 21:40 GMT

I have been having 40 out of a stack of 50 new CDs declared "dirty or
defective" by WMP 11 in trying to burn music, and I am told to possibly try
another brand of discs. Well, I have used Imation, Magnavox, and Memorex- all
with the same results. My burning speed is set at the lowest setting, so it
is not that. This is getting to be expensive. Can someone tell me what brand
of CDs has the lowest percentage of defective discs in a batch? Or what
percentage of defective discs I should expect to find in a batch...10% or 20%
or what? Or is this mainly a problem with WMP and would I have less occurence
of this problem with Winamp?

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Byte - 31 Jan 2007 20:36 GMT

All the brands you referred to top quality CDs and should not give
you any (dirty?) type problems. I have never had a single CD come
up with that error. It may be your writing head in the
CD drive that is dirty and needs cleaning. Use an air blaster or
compressed air cannister you can buy in Best Buy or Circuit City.
If that doesn't solve it, you may need to buy a new burner. Just
because the CD plays music (read head) doesn't mean that the
drive will also burn (write head).

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> I have been having 40 out of a stack of 50 new CDs declared "dirty or
> defective" by WMP 11 in trying to burn music, and I am told to possibly try
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> or what? Or is this mainly a problem with WMP and would I have less occurence
> of this problem with Winamp?

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