These Are The Best Cd R

With CDs, you decide what to listen to from your old music collection. With streaming, you're have to live with the selections of the AI for which you pay a monthly fee. With CD shuttle play, I get a mix of the styles, genres, & decades that I listened to years ago. I don't know what 's coming next, but I know it won't be the same artist. I can always click Next. Streaming is for people who want background music.

Remember mix tapes for parties & special occasions. You can create a mix CD or flash drive to sustain the mood if you have a CD/DVD player, which you can find on Amazon. Instead of elevator music, the stores now pipe in music from the 50's through the 90's because the copyright fees are lot less than the current music. The competition is so fierce among streaming services that human curators are now working with the AI of some services as a team. Just because you listened to a track doesn't mean you want to be inundated with that artist or style. Streaming is a recent development, while tune collectors like me have been listening for decades.

I've used about half of these for making music compilation CDs for the kids. So far I only had one disc that didn't work, but I don't know if that was the fault of the product or the computer, software, etc., so I can't count it against the number of stars. The discs that I've made have, I've been told, been played repeatedly in the car CD player and in the kids' own CD players in their rooms; they've had no problems that I know of.

I got these because, a couple weeks prior I had gotten the rewritable disks and they didn't work in my car... so I got these hoping they would, and they do... so yay! They're great.. they fit allot of music on them... especially if you change the settings to have 1 second pause between songs, or no pause at all... 🙂 also being able to write on the disk is nice. I wrote notes on them to remember which tracks are my favorite. ^_^

You get the feeling we aren't ever going to completely say goodbye to compact discs? I bought a new vehicle that has Apple CarPlay and Android Auto but ... it also has a CD player in it too. As much I enjoy the streaming world of music, I still like to pop my favorite albums in on a CD and listen to them in full. I was very happy to see these blank CDs. These were my favorites for years. The only difference I see in these and the ones I had 10 years ago is a slight design difference on the front of the CD, there's some musical notes and designs that I don't remember being on these. I've burned 10 so far and have had 0 errors or problems. I don't know how many people look into things like this but as someone who has burned over 1,000 CDs in my life, I've learned a little patience and preparation helps the discs burn better. I never burn over 16x speed, my PC's burner is a 52x but I keep it on 16x and something I once tried and saw good results with it was to make sure no applications are running while burning. Very happy with these discs and their price. I used to pay about double or triple this price for this pack. I once started using the Verbatim Digital Vinyl CDs but got tired of trying to write on their label. These Maxell have nice, full lines to write on and work well with a standard Sharpie.

Honestly, we were desperate to make our own CDs and having used this brand before, took the chance despite the poor reviews and our own set of issues with the brand in the past (such as the CD playing on a Victrola or on the computer, but in the car or on a different brand of CD player it won’t?). Not to mention the fact that we are a family of major review checkers, especially 1 star reviews (it’s no secret that 1 star ratings tend to be THE MOST important, especially with our luck!) and the reviews here show extremely poor quality. But, like I said, we were desperate and took the chance.

My expectations were seriously low when I got the CDs in an poly-mailer. Which was not cool.
Opened them up, they looked alright and I got to work.

The process of making the CD was very easy unless the audio file was an MP4, but once I figured out the annoying process of converting to an MP3 audio, it smoothed out the process and viola! One homemade CD in 1-2 minutes or less.

Put the CD into the player, all was going well, and then it started glitching on certain tracks as if the CD was scratched. Of course that made no sense, after all, it was bloody well brand new! Turns out, after a few plays the CD “smoothed out” and rarely does the glitch thing after a few runs.
Can I explain the technical issue? No, I cannot.

I think these are overpriced, but that’s good ole inflation for ya.

Overall, these CDs suited my needs and the bizarre glitching seems a tamed problem. Therefore, for the time being (I’ve only used 8 out of the whole case?) I personally cannot justify less then 5 stars. Though it is unfortunate for the folks who have had such a negative experience.

While the package cover displays Maxdata CD-R Music, the actual discs are labeled, Maxell CD-R Music. Regardless, by appearance alone they seem identical to previous music CD-Rs I've purchased in the past. And because my intention is to solely use this product to burn music I will not be going through any of the problems some consumers are having when purchasing CD-R media. My first project recorded without flaw and the playback was universally successful in the various devices I play music on... Such as my Blu-ray® player, computer and automobile CD player(s.) Let me add that the quality I have come to associate with the Maxell brand seems unchanged. Previous Maxell discs remain fully intact after a decade or more of use. Hard to argue about durability at this point in time. Therefore it is very easy for me to recommend this CD-R media to anyone interested.

I use these to back up my cd collection, for a car copy etc. I bought a pack of 100 verbatim and the first few off the stack worked fine. several months later I tried to burn a few cds and my computer kept telling me to insert a blank disc. I though something was wrong with my computer, but it was only a few months old. I tried on another computer and the same thing happened. My son gave me a disc from his stash and it worked. I was like, why? I just bought this stack of 100. I went through them all and none would work. I did not know what to think. I ordered some more because that was the brand I always used. They did not work either. I finally bought these memorex and so far so good. I don't know why this seems to be happening to a lot of people as I see in the reviews. So far I am very happy with the memorex. I only hope when I order more they will work as well.

Of all the writable disc brands I use, memorex has some of the best CD-R. It's not first party Sony or Phillips, but the the low failure rates are next to none in my experience. I make backups of broken/heavily scratched PlayStation classics (RIP Crash Bash and Spyro 2) that are unreadable in my PS1/2/3 and these burned at 4x speed work like a charm, which is further more impressive considering that PS1 hardware is especially picky with disc quality. Even 8x burns (one of my cheaper writers only goes down to 8x) work fantastic!

As for music, some players are picky about direct disc copies, but these work best out of third party for me. I still have an old MP3 disc from 2006 which is dinged and lightly surface scratched but still reads all 107 tracks.

Edited a few typos: June 1, 2018

My daughter is a singer songwriter in Nashville working for a major label. She sends me all the songs she writes
(about 100 a year) and I record them on Memorex Music CD-R discs. I've used other brands but the sound quality is better on these discs. I've never had one fail.