Saab CD Player

[banger]

Anyone know if it's safe to play discs that you have recorded on a computer in the standard UK Saab cd player. In the manual it says the cd can overheat with these type of discs, never heard of this before.

[jimmym105]

In my experience they can heat up and start skipping. I'd give it go, sure it can't hurt.

Jimmy

[banger]

Interesting, seems weird in these days of digital music. Shall try it as you say.

[TomPaine]

In my experience they can heat up and start skipping. I'd give it go, sure it can't hurt.

Exactly my experience - and when I checked the handbook (note to self, RTFM...) it says in a large box at the start of the CD section: "NOTICE: Do not use writeable CDs in your Audio System. In certain cases, this type of CD is only suitable for home use and can therefore cause operational problems (overheating)."

[Saabman]

I never had any problems in my 9-5 or my 9-3ss but it doesn't like copy DVD's in the sat nav after a few hours of running 

[Max Headroom]

A few years back there was a warning came out at work that dome CDs could actually explode, but this was to do with the rate that they were spun up in fast computer drives.

I really don't see this being a problem in your CD player - I would suggest however that if you are using writeable discs that you only use top quality brands - I imagine cheap stuff could overheat very easily

[phoenix]

Writable CDs are harder to read than pressed ones, and as a result the laser has to work harder. Add to that the vibration rich atmosphere of the car and it gets even worse. Then cram it all in a very small package with other bits and it does get very hot indeed!

[TomPaine]

I really don't see this being a problem in your CD player - I would suggest however that if you are using writeable discs that you only use top quality brands - I imagine cheap stuff could overheat very easily

Well I used Sony ones when I tried, which I would have thought counted as quality, but as reported they skipped badly - and as phoenix says below the unit got alarmingly hot. Yer pays yer money.

[JB]

Try writing them at a much slower speed. I'd suggest no faster than 8x. I've had discs written at max speed (usually 40x or 48x) skip and play up, but no problems when written at a slow speed.

[banger]

Thanks JB might give that a go.

[CitTone]

+1 to JB's suggestion. The film in the disc appears to get more of a "hit" from the laser at low write speeds. Later drives have more sensitive laser pickups which can extract a smaller signal off the disc - which is what you get when you write at high speed. Older stereos are less sensitive therefore more susceptible to the problem than more recent versions.

[Richard_C]

I have used copy cd's with no ill effects.  Maybe it got a bit warmer but it gets pretty hot anyway.  I don't think it will play discs with MP3 tracks - it has to be a proper CD burn.

MY ancient desktop PC that I use for such things won't do fast burns anyway, so maybe mine are all 8x which is why they work OK.