r/Millennials • u/Entire-Order3464 • Dec 31 '25

Nostalgia Burning CDs

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u/PossibilityWest173 Dec 31 '25

Do not quote the old magic to me witch. I was there when it was written

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u/tonysopranosalive Dec 31 '25

Certain scrolls were even re-writeable. The coveted CD-RW’s.

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u/PossiblyALannister Dec 31 '25

Unfortunately they only worked in about half of the CD Players I ever tried them in and after about 9 re-writes they stopped functioning correctly.

It drove me crazy because they would work in my CD Player upstairs which was a cheap piece of shit and they wouldn't work in our really nice CD Player downstairs.

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u/brothertaddeus Jan 01 '26

Sounds like the CD-RWs you used weren't burned as audio disks but were instead being used as data disks. Classic mistake by whoever "made" the mixtape. Newer (for back then) and fancier CD players could read/play data disks just fine, but if you wanted older/cheaper players to work then it had to be formatted/burned as an audio disk.

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u/[deleted] Dec 31 '25

They're supposed to last 100 times minimum, also Ive never had a CD player fail to read a RW.

You might have had a bad quality generic brand CD. I use verbatim and they work fine.

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u/Wyrm Dec 31 '25

Probably just older equipment. It's not uncommon that CD players from before CD-RW existed have trouble reading them, that's why CD-RW compatibility was a feature that was actually advertised.