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OK - here`s the key to getting the most with regard to CD formatting. If you use Nero, check the Joliet option, to use Unicode characters in the file names. You`ll now get the first 14 characters of each song, instead of the eight characters with the ~`s.

Now my problem - I have a Ricoh CD-RW that works fine, and some older "name brand" CD-R`s that work, but brand new Maxell CD-RW`s do not and two brands of cheaper CD-R`s do not (I`m in the US - brand names may vary?) Has anyone else had trouble with specific brands of blanks CDs?

I`ve had 3 Ricoh MP7040A-DP CDRW drives last year and they all went back with various problems.
I bought mine freom Dabs Direct (UK) who informed me to keep away from Memorex/Samsung CDRW media after I found these wouldnt work in my drive!
The final straw was when the supplied Ricoh CDRW disc started to play up.
A similar experience occured with my second and the third just internally exploded before I got to test a CDRW.

Below is a section of the letter sent with my final returned Ricoh:

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"The Ricoh Multispeed ReWritable CD media that comes bundled with the drive is very unreliable at 4x burning speeds. The drive is also totally incompatible with my Memorex & Samsung ReWritable CDs at any speed, producing between 1 and 5 errors per disc. I own Samsung and Memorex media exclusively!

Burning the ‘write once’ Recordable CDs is 100% successful but as I intend to use the drive mainly for ReWriting, this situation is most unsuitable.

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If you get the same results, I think the problem may lie with all Ricohs drives :(

Mitsumi CDRW Rocks!!!

>"Now my problem - I have a Ricoh CD-RW that works fine, and some older "name brand" CD-R`s that work, but brand new Maxell CD-RW`s do not and two brands of cheaper CD-R`s do not "

Thats because Maxell CDR`s are crud!
I`ve had the same problem with Maxell, Kodak and Samsung branded, and as I have a SCSi drive, I found that the unbranded ones I was using were Samsung too! ( I got a wee proggie that reads the ATiP from a disc with a SCSi drive..manufacturer info!)

I only use TDK SONY and PHILIPS branded now...never had a problem!
My cheapies are now Traxdata, which I have also never had a problem!
And by cheapies, I mean 36p a disc..my sony/tdk/philips average about 80p a disc.

And due to the initial points on your thread, I may have to try this Nero thing again.....


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