CD-Rw playbck

What CD player are you using? Is it one that came with the CD burner or some add on?

Use the cd player that came with your operating system. If the CD was burned without error or interruption, it should play better with the OS CD player program.

Maxwell

You don't indicate what you are trying to play the CDRWs on. You can have problems if you are trying to play them on a different CD unit. A CDROM unit in your computer should be able to read the CDRW, but may not always. If you are trying to playyour CDRW disk in a regular CD player you could easily experience the problems you mention, even to the point of the CD player not being able to read the CDRW disk at all.

CDRW disks, CDR disks, and manufactured CDs all have different optical characteristics. CDR disks are closest in optical characteristics to manufactured CD disks, while CDRW disks differ the most. CD readers, especially audio CD players, may not be able to successfully read CDRW disks or even CDR disks, or may only be able to read some CDR or CDRW disks and not others due to differences among brands, CDR/CDRW burners, etc.

Your CDR/CDRW burner also does not write disks with as tight tolerances as the tolerances normally used for manufactured disks, so there can be greater errors on your CDR/CDRW disks that also make them more difficult to read in different players.

I assume you are using CDRW/CDR disks that are rated at or above the maximum writing speed of your burner. Try burning at a slower rate than you've been using to see if that improves readability.