Does it work with your recorder? • Which CD readers can use it? • How long does it last before it starts to decay? • Whats the typical BLER (BLock Error Rate) for the media?
Some audio CD players (like the ones you’d find in a car stereo) have worked successfully with one brand of gold media but not another. Some players fail completely with green, some fail completely with gold, some only work with blue. Some people have found brand X CD-R units work well with media type Y, while other people with the same unit have had different results. Recording a disc at 4x may make it unreadable on some drives, even though a disc recorded at 2x on the same drive works fine. To top it all off, someone observed that discs burned with one brand of CD-R weren’t readable in cheap CD-ROM drives, even though the same kind of media burned in a different device worked fine. The performance of any piece of media is always a combination of the disc, the drive that recorded it, and the drive that reads it. A number of specific discoveries have been posted to Usenet, but none of them are conclusive.
