Subj : Re: floppy disks
To   : Nightfox
From : Warpslide
Date : Mon Apr 28 2025 02:57 pm

On 28 Apr 2025, Nightfox said the following...

 Ni> I've seen some weird things like that.  One thing I noticed is that if I
 Ni> burned CDs on the maximum speed, they'd often read okay in my PC, but
 Ni> other CD-ROMs and CD players might have trouble reading it.  I found
 Ni> that it was best to burn CDs at the slowest speed available, and that
 Ni> generally helped.

One of my car stereos was like that.  It would play burned audio CDs if burned at a slower speed (4X I think), but if burned at faster speeds it would sometimes recognize the disc, other times not.  If it did recognize the disc it would often just skip or start playing and then just stop.

A later car stereo I had that played MP3 CDs seemed perfectly fine reading discs burned at higher speeds.

Thinking back to those times, having to use physical media in vehicles, makes me appreciate how far we've come.  Now I can just talk to my car and ask it to play nearly any song that's available on a streaming service without having to worry about which disc it was on or having to changes tapes or discs when I want to listen to a different artist.

Tired of music?  Just tap the podcast button on the dashboard and listen to someone ramble on about any variety of subjects, fiction or otherwise.

We're honestly spoiled for choice, which I appreciate.


Jay

.... The history podcast was so captivating, it really "took us back"

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