So I'm currently driving an old '92 buick, which has an old Pioneer DEH P705 in-dash radio/cd player. It can't play my burnt CDs, for some reason.
And that's not always the case. The first burnt one I put in worked for a few songs, and then stopped working. After removing and putting it back in a few times, it started up again. Recently I haven't been so lucky. I finally got one to work, and it would just play through the first half of the first song.
This isn't a CD error, I've checked every CD in my old stereo. Also, it plays any store-bought CDs perfectly, whether it's from the seventies or last year.
Sometimes it'll give me [url=http://en.allexperts.com/q/Audio-Systems-835/2008/3/Pioneer-DEH-P6300-Error.htm]ERROR 12[/url], sometimes it just ejects the disc.
I'm seriously stumped.
[quote=The link you posted about error 12 and what not]This error message merely means that it cannot play the disc. I is usually due to the laser diode inside the optical pickup head is weak or defective. But, it could also mean the tracking and focus adjustments have been jarred too far out. Or, it could be mean the servo controller for the head and motor drive has gone bad[/quote]
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I forgot to mention, it plays store-bought CDs perfectly.
[editline]22nd December 2010[/editline]
Updated OP to contain that little tidbit.
Copyright protection.
Alot of car CD drives have it.You can just use a program[dont know which] to make it play.
[QUOTE=bootv2;26901710]don't think so, it would be logicalk if it would never play, but it played a little bit. I usually get quality issues with burned cd's, this quality issue mostly consists of readability of the disc. and since it does work in your stereo set at home, I think it's a combination of this and the laser diode in there going bad.[/QUOTE]
I would suggest just getting a new drive, they dont cost much, can you use Drives from PC's in cars?
We just don't want to spend any money on this car, if we can help it. We don't know how long it will be before it finally dies. It's got 256000+ miles, so it could die any day now. Could there be something I could do while burning to make it work?
[editline]23rd December 2010[/editline]
[QUOTE=FlubberNugget;26895529]Copyright protection.
Alot of car CD drives have it.You can just use a program[dont know which] to make it play.[/QUOTE]
Also, this drive is from '93, I don't think they worried about copyright then.
[QUOTE=WastedJamacan;26910525]Also, this drive is from '93, I don't think they worried about copyright then.[/QUOTE]
Well there's your problem. The CD-R standard was written in 1988, but consumer level drives that were even remotely affordable only started appearing in the market in 1995 for $1000. Most people didn't have $15,000 CD-R systems in 1993, so I doubt the manufacturer of the drive bothered adding support for CD-Rs or RWs.
[QUOTE=WastedJamacan;26910525]We just don't want to spend any money on this car, if we can help it.[/QUOTE]
You aren't really spending money on the car by buying a new CD player, it's not like it's a specific part that only works in that vehicle. When it dies or you trade it eventually, you can just pull the new player out and put it in your newer car.
Alot of older decks just can't play burned CDs
Like how some desktop PCs drives (old as fuck ones) can't read CD-RWs
[QUOTE=bohb;26925283]Well there's your problem. The CD-R standard was written in 1988, but consumer level drives that were even remotely affordable only started appearing in the market in 1995 for $1000. Most people didn't have $15,000 CD-R systems in 1993, so I doubt the manufacturer of the drive bothered adding support for CD-Rs or RWs.
You aren't really spending money on the car by buying a new CD player, it's not like it's a specific part that only works in that vehicle. When it dies or you trade it eventually, you can just pull the new player out and put it in your newer car.[/QUOTE]
Except our newer cars all have built in shit, not replaceable. Mitsubishi is notorious for that. And for some reason our later-model Buick Century is the same. So it would be spending money specifically on my car, unfortunately.
Is there a way that I could burn it so that it will read better? Or a different type of CD that will work?
Factory pressed discs use physical pits and hills to represent 1's and 0's on the disc. CD-R discs only use dark and light spots to represent the data in the dye of the disc, which older stereos have trouble reading. To improve the readability, burn your audio CD-Rs at the slowest speed, like 1x or 2x. It's not 100% guaranteed it will work for you, but it fixed my home stereo.
[QUOTE=Pixel Heart;26930704]Factory pressed discs use physical pits and hills to represent 1's and 0's on the disc. CD-R discs only use dark and light spots to represent the data in the dye of the disc, which older stereos have trouble reading. To improve the readability, burn your audio CD-Rs at the slowest speed, like 1x or 2x. It's not 100% guaranteed it will work for you, but it fixed my home stereo.[/QUOTE]
Yes, you need to burn them at 1X. I thought I told you that Wasted?
[QUOTE=Demache;26932027]Yes, you need to burn them at 1X. I thought I told you that Wasted?[/QUOTE]
I thought I tried that and it didn't work. Perhaps I need to try again? Also, what program does 1x anymore?
nearly every major burning software.
Get someting free because there really is no need to get the pay-for ones.
you would be better off just geting a new drive
[QUOTE=FlubberNugget;26951261]nearly every major burning software.
Get someting free because there really is no need to get the pay-for ones.[/QUOTE]
None of mine burn at 1x... the lowest I have is 10x.
The only way you're going to burn at 1x speed is if you get a REALLY old CD-RW drive (like 1996-1998) and equally as antiquated CD burning software. CD-Rs stopped being able to be burned below 4x nearly a decade ago.
I can think of no purpose for supporting such a slow burning speed on modern hardware, besides few niche applications or if you have a pile of 10 year old CD-Rs that you want to use up.
Burning at slow speeds like that isn't going to solve the problem of 18 year old CD drives not being able to read them, the laser in the drive just isn't calibrated to read that type of format.
1x worked like a charm. My laptop's drive supports it and iTunes apparently does 1x.
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