When Squeezebox mania got me to carefully rip thousands of CDs, the only commercially pressed ones that were flat-out impossible to read were the two discs in "Monty Python's Final Ripoff". They were victims of the "bronzing" issue a British plant had for a while. I had other discs that were visibly bronzed, but none of them gave me any special problems.
Having said that, to this day I encounter visually perfect pressed discs with various levels of readability. Sometimes they'll just zoom along in one drive but re-read multiple sectors in others. Sometimes no drive will read them accurately (I'm looking at you, original Geffen issue of Peter Gabriel's "So"!) DualDiscs seem to be particularly troublesome on the CD side. I found CD-Rs to read pretty much as one might expect: The Mitsuis and Taiyo Yudens were fine, the lesser brands were sometimes fine and sometimes worthless. My favorite is still the Memorex that was completely destroyed when a Post-It note managed to peel off the recording layer. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ atrocity's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16009 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=101549 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
