Does anyone know what you need to do to burn an MP3 CD-R that the Stream MP3 will play? Exactly half of the disks I have burned already work and half give a CD ERROR. I re-burned one of them in case it was the few scratches that were the problem, and then re-created it with as pure ISO9660 as I could. Neither copy worked either.

I have a nasty feeling that the disks I burned on Windows work OK, and the ones I burned on Linux don't, but I don't see I'm doing anything wrong, and it shouldn't be that sensitive. Any ideas?

Edited 16 August, 200817 yr by rurwin

I just use nero and create a normal ISO data cd. You need to make sure that the session is closed once writing is complete.

session closed? if not i doubt it will play a cd-r.

The session is closed and the disk finalised on all disks except one... and that one plays.

Does anyone know who manufacturers the Stream MP3? I'd probably be best going to them rather than Skoda Customer Service.

I'd say it was down to disk quality, try using a different brand such as Verbatim.

I doubt anyone in SUK will be able/willing to answer your question so save yourself the aggro.

Thanks, Stu. That does seem the most likely culprit at the moment. The disks I'm using are not unbranded; they're TDK and Maxell - good names albeit in the mag-tape field, but I got one Maxell disk to read once, which does indicate bad data rather than bad format. As soon as I source some Verbatim disks I'll report back. I just hope that it isn't my DVD-RW drive calibration.

It could be the recorder I suppose. DVD-R drives can be had for under £20, so it could work out cheaper to try another drive.

I visited PC-World on Friday and picked up 50 Verbatim CD-Rs and an external DVD-Rewriter. That way it's not a complete loss - I can use it on my eeePC too.

Results:

Verbatim -- no difference

External Drive -- Success

So it's LiteOn rather expensive Multi DVD drive, zero, LG "super multi" only one they had in the shop, one.

I would guess that the LiteOn drive is slightly out of alignment, which the Sony HU handled, but the Stream MP3 doesn't.

Thanks for the help, I'm off to burn some disks.

QUite by accident, the test disk I burned starts up on Eye of the Tiger.

BTW: Skoda Customer Care were really helpful. They rang me at least once a day, sometimes two or three times a day for the three or four days the query took to get answered. I can't fault them. Unfortunately they found that there is no such thing as a technical specification for the Stream MP3. So in the end not much use, maybe let down by SUK, but the CC department did try hard and kept me informed throughout.

Edited 16 August, 200817 yr by rurwin