I own a Yamaha CD-RW writer model CRW4261 (read x6, write x4, rewrite x2). I’ve had it for a couple of years and had had almost no problems. I’ve created many Audio CD’s and it worked all-right. But all of a sudden this problem occured:
I’ve triedto create an Audio CD from WAV files. I’ve moved all the WAV files to a seperate partition in my hard disk (approx. 900MB size; I only use it to store files before burning them on CD’s) and used Adaptec Easy CD Creator (v. 4.0) to create an Audio CD. I’ve chosen all the WAV’s as I normally do and started the CD creation process. It went fine and the program announced “CD creation was completed successfully”. Well, I took the new CD and put it in my stereo system and it didn’t recognize it. I returned to my PC and inserted the CD into my CDROM drive. Although Windows 98 recognize it as an Audio CD many of the tracks were of a pure quality (many ‘jumps’, ‘scratch’ noises etc.).
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