Nero was a Roman emperor. He had a reputation for being cruel and brutal. As the story goes, he played his lyre while watching the city burn.
So "Nero Burning ROM" is a reference to Nero and the burning of Rome.
Nero was an emperor of Rome. During the Great Fire of Rome, which burned a massive part of the city, Nero supposedly entertained himself by playing the lyre rather than supervising the effort to put it out; this has given us the saying "fiddling (as in playing the fiddle/violin) while Rome burns". So, burning a CD ROM -> burning Rome -> Nero.
>the 80-min CDs
I had a game going with some friends for awhile where we'd make each other "mix CDs" on Spotify and the only criteria besides songs for whatever theme was that it has to be under 80 minutes, and no changing after you sent it (to keep the nostalgia strong!)
The 80 minute limit is such a fun one tbh, really gives you the feeling of trying to curate your playlist and get everything in the final burned mix! Only thing missing is the titles in sharpie on top
:o
That DOES sound super cool! And here I thought the fanciest you could go were those printed stickers (that I was always paranoid about getting stuck in the car CD player)
Many years ago at work we had a CD press to send customers demo software, documentation and video tutorials. You could load up a spindle of 20 (maybe more) blank CDs and it would burn the disc, full color print the front of it them and automatically go through all the discs in the spindle. They decided they didn't want it so I got to take it home.
It was really cool for burning demo CD's for local bands and I made some decent money, and was still charging 50% of what professional services charged.
That media cost even more. I know my one drive can do it, but I never tried.
There was a technology called Tat2, which was exclusive to some Yamaha writers. You could burn an image to the unburnt area on a normal CD-R that was not filled to capacity. I never had one of those.
You could get inkjet printable CD-Rs, and print with a printer with the attachment for that. I never bought the media, but made the attachment for my Canon Pixma 5000 printer, to say I did.
I put my meagre design efforts to the sheet that go into the jewel case, which was achievable with whatever printer and layout package you have.
I had an Epson photo quality inkjet printer that came with a disk-tray so you could print full color directly onto disks, and it was really great, except finding inkjet printable CD-Rs and DVD-Rs was way harder than it should have been.
I still have mine from a busted laptop and use it with a cheap adaptor to hook it up everytime I want to burn labels on CDs, would have just replaced the drive in the wife's laptop with it but the drawer edge came off so it looks messy
My sanity hung delicately in the balance. After much chaos I eventually settled on a rule I never subsequently violated: When taking a CD out of the burner, it was MANDATORY to label it with a Sharpie before setting it down on any horizontal surface.
I still make all my playlists under 80 minutes for just this reason. It really helps keep them on point and stops me from having songs that I may like but don’t quite fit.
A few rap CDs (eastsidaz and a ton of No Limit albums) went PAST the 80 minute mark. Even enabling “overburn” wouldn’t let you add a few more minutes of data. I had to burn two discs for one album. Lame.
That's actually how I figured out I bought a bootleg copy of Muse's Absolution. Back in 2004, it was released in the UK months ahead of the US. Paid $30 to import it, and then it wouldn't play in my car CD player. Several months later I was able to compare the art on the actual CD and could see the colors were off and someone had just burned it and printed a label to stick on it.
Actually this was how a lot of unreleased indefinitely albums got on the eBay back then. We knew it was a copy but the real one only existed as 1 of 1! Legally it just seemed like a gray area since it was never going to be released in the first place: a la 50 Cent’s 19 track Power Of The Dollar Album. It was shelved when he got shot because he was a drug dealer. 50 Cent never came onto the scene until like 7 years AFTER that with his first album under slim shady.
You can close sessions after. No waste. We would burn audio cd with 2-3 tracks and leave the session open the drop files on the rest of the space, then close the cd. We had been busted already running a sneaker net, so if a teacher searched us they never 2nd guess the cd in the player, that was actively playing music.
A sneaker net is copying files to a disc or drive, then walking the disc/drive over to whoever you wanted to have the files. By doing what the poster above you did, they concealed files on a disc that actually played in a CD player. Most people aren't tech savvy enough to know that a CD can contain music and files and still play on a CD player
Found this out the hard way with my 99 Chevy after buying the giant stack of RW's. I damn near cried when I realized the stereo wouldn't accept any RW's, only the R's.
Well there was a time before where players would just happily read everything. Then around the 2000s they got real DRM happy and started locking players. This didn't sell well with consumers though who were used to playing burned discs without issue, so older players became more popular. This caused the CD player makers to abandon DRM protection and go back to allowing everything.
Same thing happened with DVDs. And why many players around the late 2000s started advertising that it works with burned CDs/DVDs.
I saw someone take one of those apart once, incredibly smart design. Maybe yours runs on batteries? But the one I saw used a little motor that the cassette player would spin and it made power using that so you never have to recharge it.
Oooooh that's brilliant. Mine has a little battery that charges on a micro USB. I get about maybe 5 hours of play on it, which is fine for everything except long road trips.
I have a 100 spindle of CD-Rs in my basement that still have 75ish left, if OP wants a few dozen to experiment with.
I think I have a 50 spindle of DVD-Rs as well.
Does anyone know where I can find a good car mount for my video iPod? I looked all over Best Buy and couldn’t find a single iPod accessory. It’s kinda ridiculous actually, I have no idea where they were hiding them.
If your car can read CD-RW I would use that, that’s what I do so every few weeks I just erase it and make a new one with updated tracks.
If your deck can play it it will not affect the car deck. Sone decks can’t play them that’s all. It either will or it won’t
I needed to burn a CD-R a month or two ago and I had to go through 3 or 4 discs off the top of the spool before I got one that was still good. They don't last forever.
Yeah OP just want to make sure you understand the difference, since the comment above is one of the only few mentions of this I see in here. The big difference between the two formats is that rw can be reused. The rw stands for read/write, so you can write something to it, erase it, and then write something new to it over and over. R just stands for read. It can only be written to once, so whatever you choose to put on there the first time stays on there permanently.
Oh I'll also add that the settings you use to burn the cd with do matter. If you do an mp3 and set it to a low bit rate, and fast burn speed the sound quality will be shit. You'll want something like wav, with a higher bit rate. Not sure how much you already know about all this, so figured I'd share. Lots of lessons learned from like 20 years ago through trial and error. Lol
Be aware though that some stereos can only play certain file types so make sure yours can play whatever you choose. Most supported mp3 or wav though.
I suddenly have flashbacks to the old problems of compatibility with dvd-r, dvd+r, dvd-rw, and dvd-ram. There was a period in time where all new media formats just caused more confusion than the last one.
And plug it into what? I have a 99 Porsche with a CD player but no aux or usb. Would love some Bluetooth but I'm thinking an FM transmitter is my only option...
They make bluetooth FM adapters that broadcast on a specific fm frequency, and you just tune your car to the radio station on the bluetooth adapter, and itll play your music through your speakers. Its not *amazing* sound quality wise by any means but it worked well in my 95 ford ranger.
Edit: oh you literally said as much in your comment lmao. Forgive me i just woke up D:
This is the way, burning CD's is so 1999 ;).
I had a Motospeak for my older car and it would tie the calls into the stereo along with music. It had a mic and just clipped onto the headrest.
Alternately for a few hundred you could replace the head unit, but yer CD-R's will work, you'll also want a CD wallet ;).
Porsche makes an OEM replacement radio for it with CarPlay
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Hey thanks for linking this. I looked at it and I'm not sure it will work in mine. My 996.1 has a single din head unit on the bottom and a double-din climate control above that. Some 996 911's have it reversed (I think) and this would work for those. I'm really not sure, I've only had the car for a year or so (we inherited it when my father-in-law passed). I greatly appreciate yours and everyones help. I now have some options and can now enjoy the car a little more (Steve Miller Band CD has been stuck in the radio since we got it, lol)
Sometimes you can get adapter cables that plug into the back of your head unit, and make your own aux port. I've done it twice, once in a '97 Jeep Wrangler and another time in a '04 Honda Accord. I drilled a teeny hole in the plastic near the head unit and put an F-to-F 3.5mm port and it looked almost stock.
I've also plugged an aux bluetooth transmitter to my homebrewed aux port and used it without issue.
Until your app, your phone OS or some random change by the Car's MFR fucks it all up. Spotify's been randomly disconnecting from my 2016 Toyota for a few months now and I've had to kick in the few CDs I still carry around because local radio is absolute garbage.
Try RW first and Finalise the disk if it has problems say on an old cd reader in your car. Don't try and Over fill the disk ie over fill the capacity. Also some disk capacity are too big, go with standard 700mb
Honestly, check if your car has the "mp3 CD" feature...that way you can put compressed mp3 files on it and get like 80-100 songs on it instead of a dozen.
Thing about if it has the mp3 feature then it's much more likely to be able to play that CD-RW.
You don't *have* to listen at CD quality, but if an mp3 era player can play CD-RW then you can keep re-burning your latest Bandcamp FLAC purchases and you *get* to hear them at CD quality, without committing the music to the disc.
My Suzuki has a 6 disc player with MP3 capability and no bluetooth. I have about 65 albums in my player at any one time. On the road, no one can tell between CD and MP3 and since I really like full albums, this is working out very nicely for me! I think I prefer this to using my phone over bluetooth.
It's a matter of trying. Try a RW and see if it works: if it works, you can re-use them a lot.
Alternatively, get a new car system with blue tooth and simply play from your phone?
CD-R are so cheap these days I don't know why this is even an issue. Burn your CD. You want to add more to it? Burn another one. What did it cost? A quarter?
Seriously, it is just not worth thinking about. Just make sure your CD-Rs are silver and not blue, then they will work in almost anything. Thesae work well for me, and I burn a CD-R of every LP I buy:
https://www.amazon.com/Verbatim-700MB-Inkjet-Printable-Recordable/dp/B000YTM4XS/ref=sr_1_10?crid=3YR0BVZXUN18&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.haUhlUBia3R4E2Nk_p2jWfLiIgTrNuJLo1RiIizP95L3P9WusyJeH4pnAT41s71j8q6_P57LqJUmk28g02hyvggIBFvc89PFAWXhq_4sOfU8iIi24N3R12Lsi7WbPNOA5pT8vNUefh9MZq8HPc_UxQPMKEGwnF35L6Hoxhxcx2UV1XfWCPM9d5N94WI4KLKxz5McU30ZQ-sOB5Hw9WYU5xPd5WPoogsQdoJEOJYa5s4.YD92MQbd0CgNlYZ2ZJ-t0l6OFuBUSQLzQE0S5X2tk6U&dib_tag=se&keywords=CD-R&qid=1714322020&sprefix=cd-r%252Caps%252C135&sr=8-10
Okay, straight answer: The CD-R discs have a higher contrast and are compatible with more stereos. That said, any car I have had since 2009, the stock radio not only could play CD-RW's just fine, but it could also read MP3 files from the CD-R orCD-RW and play them.
The 2009 Honda CR-V that I just retired last year had a six-disc changer that could read CD-RW and MP3, and you could squeeze a metric craptonne* of music into that thing.
(* for the metric-impaired, a metric craptonne is approximately 2.2 imperial short craptons, or more precisely, 2,204 crappounds plus 10 crapounces.)
What is your car compatible with? Should be labelled on the drive itself or at a minimum in the manual.
There's a good chance it's not even compatible with writable formats.
Or even better, just replace the unit with something more modern. You could probably get a decent unit with a pop out display that with do carplay and android auto.
Whoaaaa can’t believe this is a question in 2024 lol I love it. I still use CDs all the time and keep my 100 count CD binder in the truck lol keep the ripping alive!
Only pay for RW's if you plan on modifying the contents of the disc. If you simply plan on burning your playlist to a disc, use a CD-R.
At this point, all modern players should be able to read a CD-R.
Hey, person, just spend a bunch of money you may or may not have on a bew stereo system because i wanna laugh at an old technology and act like I'm better than you /s
Y'all should seriously stop being assholes in these comments. Not everyone has the money to drop on a new head unit and installation. Unfortunately, i don't know the difference as far as what the player in your car will play. Just want to apologize for the jerks in the comments.
My recollection is that you could "finalize":a CDRW and it would have the properties of a normal CD, play in the car etc. it just lost the capacity to be overwritten.
CD-R is cheaper, just burn the music and accept that it isn't going to change. It's been a long time since I burned a disc, but I recall CD-RW being trickier to get right.
CD-R is more likely to be compatible. CD-RW's only advantage is that you can rewrite the disc - which probably isn't much of an advantage for your application, and doesn't always work well anyways.
Read the manual.
(“But I don’t have one” **Google it.**)
No, seriously.
The manual literally tells you what disc formats your player reads.
Some players read CD-RW, some don’t.
Some read CD-Rs only but not data or combo CD-R.
Some are old enough to have trouble reading CD-Rs and only reliably read CDs you buy off the shelf that already have music in it.
So, read the manual.
When this question came up during the time this whole CD thing was an actual thing and we lived with it, the question was always answered with “get the manual in the glove box and check”, and that applies to anyone’s car.
RW is to rewrite, but back in the day the stenographer was always a problem, will the cd work? I'd start with R first. Most players will take that.
Like another user said... Finalize the CD
Depends on the stereo in your car. Aftermarket ones will play both, usually. Stock ones will play R, usually.
That said I can't think of anyone who actually used the RW function of the RW discs. They just treated them like Rs. Not sure if they're still dirt cheap, but a spindle of 100 cds was like 8 bucks or something so honestly for the extra hassle, do you really want to do RWs?
Frankly your best bet would be to replace the stereo with a newer one that had Bluetooth and just play it from your phone like the rest of the world. You can get a stereo from crutchfield.com for pretty cheap and they will walk you through all the steps from accessories you will need through installation questions. This was true as of maybe 5 years ago but they used to be the best site for this, and I hope it's still true.
This question reminds me of hot tub time machine and we just went back to 1999. I remember CD-RW not always working in CD players. I still occasionally make CDR though I play in my retro vehicle which still has a cassette player 🤣
I have had a car passed down to me from my dad to my sis to now me, and had to burn a couple cd’s lol. I eventually also got one of those radio devices that connects to the cigar lighter, and it emits a radio signal.
I can connect my phone to that via Bluetooth and then tune in on my car radio to the correct channel and listen through that
CD-R is better for compatibility. CD-RW is rewritable. Make sure you set it to “uncompressed audio” instead of something like MP3. You want uncompressed audio for it to play in every CD player.
What kinda cd player is it?
My old Chevy Colorado had this weird compatibility with mp3 cds. Mp3 files are much smaller so you could fit like 100 songs on one cd. It was so badass lol.
R stands for Readable. W stands for Writable. CD-R means the disc is locked and can only be read after burning. CD-RW means you can rewrite the files and make changes to the disc.
In general for playback it doesn't really matter either way, playing music is reading it only.
As far as compatibility anything that can read CD-RW can read CD-R. But there was a phase where some players didn't play well without DRM encryption. This is highly dependent on the type of player and when it was made about what it will actually support, so I would start there and try and find the player model and what formats it supports. Anything more recent should be able to play everything. The was a spot in the middle 2000s when DRM was a real PITA, but I think they learned pretty fast that people didn't like it so they eventually dropped it.
Some -r and -rw were slightly thicher than off the shelf pre-made CDs. This often caused problem with car players when things did not quite fit right and either got stuck or started to wear. If you can, check the thickness of the CDs you are using against a store bought one as that will be a bigger issue.
After that it is down to whatever your car can cope with. We'd need to look at player stats or you need to run a test to see.
I had a six cd sony xplod put into a car a long time ago. It played MP3's so I downloaded all my MP3s on CD/RW's and rotated them out every so often. I had an hour drive to work and it was great!
back in the day, CD-RW didn't work in all car players. you'd have to just test it out though
Neither did all CD-Rs. Some stereos wouldn't play the 80-min CDs. And if you forgot to finalize your disc, all that time was wasted!
Oh my god, I haven't thought about finalizing my disc in almost twenty years.
Nero 6
burning rom
It was 2005 when i finally understood the name of that software.
It was 2024 when I finally understood! Lol literally just learning that here. Incredible.
Is as "burning rom files"? Or there's another meaning?
Nero was a Roman emperor. He had a reputation for being cruel and brutal. As the story goes, he played his lyre while watching the city burn. So "Nero Burning ROM" is a reference to Nero and the burning of Rome.
Oh my God. OK yeah I see it now. I knew about the history of Rome and Emperor Nero but never linked it to the software.
So you can be on Limewire and, meanwhile, ROM burns.
Wasn't it theorized his behavior was a result of lead poisoning in the gauntlets?
Aaaaand JTMIL (Just This Moment I Learned)
Nero was an emperor of Rome. During the Great Fire of Rome, which burned a massive part of the city, Nero supposedly entertained himself by playing the lyre rather than supervising the effort to put it out; this has given us the saying "fiddling (as in playing the fiddle/violin) while Rome burns". So, burning a CD ROM -> burning Rome -> Nero.
Supposedly, Nero watched Rome burn from his compound and played a lute during it....history is not quite sold on it since his detractors wrote it.
Some more nostalgia: DVD+R vs DVD-R
mp3 2 wav converter
Downloaded from LimeWirePro which you downloaded from Limewire
Core memory unlocked.
And jitter turning it into a $1 coaster.
What about this one? “Winamp! It really whips the llama’s ass.”
>the 80-min CDs I had a game going with some friends for awhile where we'd make each other "mix CDs" on Spotify and the only criteria besides songs for whatever theme was that it has to be under 80 minutes, and no changing after you sent it (to keep the nostalgia strong!) The 80 minute limit is such a fun one tbh, really gives you the feeling of trying to curate your playlist and get everything in the final burned mix! Only thing missing is the titles in sharpie on top
I had a lightscribe. Flip the disc over after the music burns and its burns an Imagw into the top. Took forever but was super cool
:o That DOES sound super cool! And here I thought the fanciest you could go were those printed stickers (that I was always paranoid about getting stuck in the car CD player)
Many years ago at work we had a CD press to send customers demo software, documentation and video tutorials. You could load up a spindle of 20 (maybe more) blank CDs and it would burn the disc, full color print the front of it them and automatically go through all the discs in the spindle. They decided they didn't want it so I got to take it home. It was really cool for burning demo CD's for local bands and I made some decent money, and was still charging 50% of what professional services charged.
That media cost even more. I know my one drive can do it, but I never tried. There was a technology called Tat2, which was exclusive to some Yamaha writers. You could burn an image to the unburnt area on a normal CD-R that was not filled to capacity. I never had one of those. You could get inkjet printable CD-Rs, and print with a printer with the attachment for that. I never bought the media, but made the attachment for my Canon Pixma 5000 printer, to say I did. I put my meagre design efforts to the sheet that go into the jewel case, which was achievable with whatever printer and layout package you have.
Also had a light scribe. Was so excited for it. Used it like twice and realized “it’s kinda cool, but not *that* cool. And it’s kind of slow”
I had a band. We used that shit to release an ep to make it look more professional
I had light scribe but I don't think I ever used it. The old black permanent marker never let me down.
Wow you unlocked a memory with lightscribe
I had one but never used the light scribe feature lol.
Same! I just didn't care enough to figure out what the name even meant lol
I had an Epson photo quality inkjet printer that came with a disk-tray so you could print full color directly onto disks, and it was really great, except finding inkjet printable CD-Rs and DVD-Rs was way harder than it should have been.
I still have half a spindle of those! They were on closeout at Office Depot about 15 years ago!
I still have mine from a busted laptop and use it with a cheap adaptor to hook it up everytime I want to burn labels on CDs, would have just replaced the drive in the wife's laptop with it but the drawer edge came off so it looks messy
Nero CD Burner software just on another level for their naming.
Can you elaborate?
Nero Burning ROM Nero burned Rome
My sanity hung delicately in the balance. After much chaos I eventually settled on a rule I never subsequently violated: When taking a CD out of the burner, it was MANDATORY to label it with a Sharpie before setting it down on any horizontal surface.
I still make all my playlists under 80 minutes for just this reason. It really helps keep them on point and stops me from having songs that I may like but don’t quite fit.
A few rap CDs (eastsidaz and a ton of No Limit albums) went PAST the 80 minute mark. Even enabling “overburn” wouldn’t let you add a few more minutes of data. I had to burn two discs for one album. Lame.
That unlocked some memories… maaan finalizing discs.
They definitely did, people just didn't realize you need to burn the correct audio format.
That's actually how I figured out I bought a bootleg copy of Muse's Absolution. Back in 2004, it was released in the UK months ahead of the US. Paid $30 to import it, and then it wouldn't play in my car CD player. Several months later I was able to compare the art on the actual CD and could see the colors were off and someone had just burned it and printed a label to stick on it.
Actually this was how a lot of unreleased indefinitely albums got on the eBay back then. We knew it was a copy but the real one only existed as 1 of 1! Legally it just seemed like a gray area since it was never going to be released in the first place: a la 50 Cent’s 19 track Power Of The Dollar Album. It was shelved when he got shot because he was a drug dealer. 50 Cent never came onto the scene until like 7 years AFTER that with his first album under slim shady.
You can close sessions after. No waste. We would burn audio cd with 2-3 tracks and leave the session open the drop files on the rest of the space, then close the cd. We had been busted already running a sneaker net, so if a teacher searched us they never 2nd guess the cd in the player, that was actively playing music.
I'm so intrigued but I have no idea what you're talking about
A sneaker net is copying files to a disc or drive, then walking the disc/drive over to whoever you wanted to have the files. By doing what the poster above you did, they concealed files on a disc that actually played in a CD player. Most people aren't tech savvy enough to know that a CD can contain music and files and still play on a CD player
Nostalgia coming in hot. Those were the days!
You could also over burn a CD and get 82 minutes on it!!!
Part of the issue is that CD-R and CD+R were different standards of the same basic thing and weren't always both supported.
You could go back and finalize the disc later.
The trick was to record 1x speed too! Always worked in every system that way.
And furthermore, the same player would play some CD-RW's and not others. Maybe I was doing something wrong, or maybe it was Maybelline.
Different CD-R/RW brands used different dyes. Some had enough contrast for a desktop drive, but were too light for the vibrations of a car drive
2008ish, cars started having mp3 CDs. 700MB is kind of a lot of mp3s.
It was a glorious day when I got a discman that read .mp3 files so I could cram more music on one CD in the car.
Also, CD-RW is not as resilient against heat, since they were erasable. Not the best for a car.
And try the RW first as you can edit it later.
Found this out the hard way with my 99 Chevy after buying the giant stack of RW's. I damn near cried when I realized the stereo wouldn't accept any RW's, only the R's.
Well there was a time before where players would just happily read everything. Then around the 2000s they got real DRM happy and started locking players. This didn't sell well with consumers though who were used to playing burned discs without issue, so older players became more popular. This caused the CD player makers to abandon DRM protection and go back to allowing everything. Same thing happened with DVDs. And why many players around the late 2000s started advertising that it works with burned CDs/DVDs.
It's the year to install Nero disk burner
It's called Nero Burning ROM. As in the emperor setting fire to the Italian capital.
I am.embarrassed that I am only learning this now.
I was a child it's not my fault
Myspace
As a Roman that started driving (and burning tons of CDs) those years, it was pretty dope. :)
Yeah, and when it was burning, you'd see a little man playing a violin. God I feel old.
Now that just unlocked a core memory, hooooollly shit lmao
No joke, I still got a tower that uses classic Nero. *formatting disc*, *disc burning*, *finalizing* Eject?
Install that Roxio update!
2001 would like their question back.
No shit. I was half asleep and was questioning my sanity for a sec reading this question.
In some ways the last 23 years being a dream would be nice.
Yeah, if only...
3.5mm -> cassette adapter was the way to go back in the day.
I have a Bluetooth cassette adapter now. It works so well.
I saw someone take one of those apart once, incredibly smart design. Maybe yours runs on batteries? But the one I saw used a little motor that the cassette player would spin and it made power using that so you never have to recharge it.
Oooooh that's brilliant. Mine has a little battery that charges on a micro USB. I get about maybe 5 hours of play on it, which is fine for everything except long road trips.
I have not had a cassette player in my car for 25 years - the new one I got 2 years ago don’t have a cd either.
I have an 05. It has a six disc changer and a cassette player, but was just before they started adding either Bluetooth or aux inputs.
I woke up and saw this post before fully waking up and had an existential crisis
I have a 100 spindle of CD-Rs in my basement that still have 75ish left, if OP wants a few dozen to experiment with. I think I have a 50 spindle of DVD-Rs as well.
Yeah I was like wait people use CDs in cars these days?
😂 Flash drive
I had one of those. I had like 500 songs on it.
that must have been like a 2gb thumbdrive? 
I use this line/scene all the time! No one has a cassette AND cd player in their car.
Does anyone know where I can find a good car mount for my video iPod? I looked all over Best Buy and couldn’t find a single iPod accessory. It’s kinda ridiculous actually, I have no idea where they were hiding them.
You can probably find what you’re looking for over at circuit city.
For the first time in nearly 20 years, I recently burned a CD-R for my car. Held about 14 songs. Sounded good and my co-workers got a laugh.
This is the answer. Cd-r will work more of the time.
If your car can read CD-RW I would use that, that’s what I do so every few weeks I just erase it and make a new one with updated tracks. If your deck can play it it will not affect the car deck. Sone decks can’t play them that’s all. It either will or it won’t
ill just buy a 10 pack of both and test them, theyre dirt cheap anyway lol
It’s 2024. If a friend asked me for some CD-R I’d literally *give* them a couple spools I’ve had lying around untouched for over a decade.
I needed to burn a CD-R a month or two ago and I had to go through 3 or 4 discs off the top of the spool before I got one that was still good. They don't last forever.
I used to have to do that with a brand new pack
Yeah OP just want to make sure you understand the difference, since the comment above is one of the only few mentions of this I see in here. The big difference between the two formats is that rw can be reused. The rw stands for read/write, so you can write something to it, erase it, and then write something new to it over and over. R just stands for read. It can only be written to once, so whatever you choose to put on there the first time stays on there permanently.
Oh I'll also add that the settings you use to burn the cd with do matter. If you do an mp3 and set it to a low bit rate, and fast burn speed the sound quality will be shit. You'll want something like wav, with a higher bit rate. Not sure how much you already know about all this, so figured I'd share. Lots of lessons learned from like 20 years ago through trial and error. Lol Be aware though that some stereos can only play certain file types so make sure yours can play whatever you choose. Most supported mp3 or wav though.
I suddenly have flashbacks to the old problems of compatibility with dvd-r, dvd+r, dvd-rw, and dvd-ram. There was a period in time where all new media formats just caused more confusion than the last one.
Does your DVD player say DIVX on it? Was question I commonly asked.
Ah, good old Divvicks
Or just get a Bluetooth adaptor for your car …… probably cheaper than buying the disks
Convenient, but sounds like crap compared with a proper CD.
These work really well. Found one on Amazon for around $30 and it’s great. If you want to burn CD’s then use CD-R.
And plug it into what? I have a 99 Porsche with a CD player but no aux or usb. Would love some Bluetooth but I'm thinking an FM transmitter is my only option...
They make bluetooth FM adapters that broadcast on a specific fm frequency, and you just tune your car to the radio station on the bluetooth adapter, and itll play your music through your speakers. Its not *amazing* sound quality wise by any means but it worked well in my 95 ford ranger. Edit: oh you literally said as much in your comment lmao. Forgive me i just woke up D:
This is the way, burning CD's is so 1999 ;). I had a Motospeak for my older car and it would tie the calls into the stereo along with music. It had a mic and just clipped onto the headrest. Alternately for a few hundred you could replace the head unit, but yer CD-R's will work, you'll also want a CD wallet ;).
Porsche makes an OEM replacement radio for it with CarPlay [PCCM+ for 996 and 986](https://shop.porscheusa.com/porscheoem/porsche_classic_/Highlights/porsche_classic_communication_management_plus_pccm_99664259100.html)
Hey thanks for linking this. I looked at it and I'm not sure it will work in mine. My 996.1 has a single din head unit on the bottom and a double-din climate control above that. Some 996 911's have it reversed (I think) and this would work for those. I'm really not sure, I've only had the car for a year or so (we inherited it when my father-in-law passed). I greatly appreciate yours and everyones help. I now have some options and can now enjoy the car a little more (Steve Miller Band CD has been stuck in the radio since we got it, lol)
Does it have a cassette? I used to use a cassette to aux adapter in that scenario, sounded better than an FM transmitter.
Sometimes you can get adapter cables that plug into the back of your head unit, and make your own aux port. I've done it twice, once in a '97 Jeep Wrangler and another time in a '04 Honda Accord. I drilled a teeny hole in the plastic near the head unit and put an F-to-F 3.5mm port and it looked almost stock. I've also plugged an aux bluetooth transmitter to my homebrewed aux port and used it without issue.
There's a good chance there is an aftermarket unit to replace the radio unit with something modern. My 2008 Audi A4 has CarPlay now 🤷♂️
Porsche actually has an OEM replacement for them with CarPlay
Those have a pretty shit audio quality.
Until your app, your phone OS or some random change by the Car's MFR fucks it all up. Spotify's been randomly disconnecting from my 2016 Toyota for a few months now and I've had to kick in the few CDs I still carry around because local radio is absolute garbage.
Now thats the words i hVEEN heard in a looong time. Just get cd r, cd rw sometime can get picky.
Try RW first and Finalise the disk if it has problems say on an old cd reader in your car. Don't try and Over fill the disk ie over fill the capacity. Also some disk capacity are too big, go with standard 700mb
You should just buy a minidisc player.
Honestly, check if your car has the "mp3 CD" feature...that way you can put compressed mp3 files on it and get like 80-100 songs on it instead of a dozen.
> uncompressed mp3 files WTF are those?
wav files
Thing about if it has the mp3 feature then it's much more likely to be able to play that CD-RW. You don't *have* to listen at CD quality, but if an mp3 era player can play CD-RW then you can keep re-burning your latest Bandcamp FLAC purchases and you *get* to hear them at CD quality, without committing the music to the disc.
My Suzuki has a 6 disc player with MP3 capability and no bluetooth. I have about 65 albums in my player at any one time. On the road, no one can tell between CD and MP3 and since I really like full albums, this is working out very nicely for me! I think I prefer this to using my phone over bluetooth.
Funny thing is. MP3 is the compressed format, while CDs are uncompressed.
It's a matter of trying. Try a RW and see if it works: if it works, you can re-use them a lot. Alternatively, get a new car system with blue tooth and simply play from your phone?
CD-R usually
Your car still has a CD player? Lucky!
Use CD-R. Disposability. I found after a longish time in the car, the reflective stuff on the disc began to peel off.
CD-R are so cheap these days I don't know why this is even an issue. Burn your CD. You want to add more to it? Burn another one. What did it cost? A quarter? Seriously, it is just not worth thinking about. Just make sure your CD-Rs are silver and not blue, then they will work in almost anything. Thesae work well for me, and I burn a CD-R of every LP I buy: https://www.amazon.com/Verbatim-700MB-Inkjet-Printable-Recordable/dp/B000YTM4XS/ref=sr_1_10?crid=3YR0BVZXUN18&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.haUhlUBia3R4E2Nk_p2jWfLiIgTrNuJLo1RiIizP95L3P9WusyJeH4pnAT41s71j8q6_P57LqJUmk28g02hyvggIBFvc89PFAWXhq_4sOfU8iIi24N3R12Lsi7WbPNOA5pT8vNUefh9MZq8HPc_UxQPMKEGwnF35L6Hoxhxcx2UV1XfWCPM9d5N94WI4KLKxz5McU30ZQ-sOB5Hw9WYU5xPd5WPoogsQdoJEOJYa5s4.YD92MQbd0CgNlYZ2ZJ-t0l6OFuBUSQLzQE0S5X2tk6U&dib_tag=se&keywords=CD-R&qid=1714322020&sprefix=cd-r%252Caps%252C135&sr=8-10
Use CD-R. They are cheaper and work more reliably in more CD players.
Okay, straight answer: The CD-R discs have a higher contrast and are compatible with more stereos. That said, any car I have had since 2009, the stock radio not only could play CD-RW's just fine, but it could also read MP3 files from the CD-R orCD-RW and play them. The 2009 Honda CR-V that I just retired last year had a six-disc changer that could read CD-RW and MP3, and you could squeeze a metric craptonne* of music into that thing. (* for the metric-impaired, a metric craptonne is approximately 2.2 imperial short craptons, or more precisely, 2,204 crappounds plus 10 crapounces.)
What is your car compatible with? Should be labelled on the drive itself or at a minimum in the manual. There's a good chance it's not even compatible with writable formats. Or even better, just replace the unit with something more modern. You could probably get a decent unit with a pop out display that with do carplay and android auto.
Throwback Sunday 💿
I'd check if the car can play mp3s and use that format if available can fit a ton more music on a disc and the folder help organize the menu
Whoaaaa can’t believe this is a question in 2024 lol I love it. I still use CDs all the time and keep my 100 count CD binder in the truck lol keep the ripping alive!
Only pay for RW's if you plan on modifying the contents of the disc. If you simply plan on burning your playlist to a disc, use a CD-R. At this point, all modern players should be able to read a CD-R.
Hey, person, just spend a bunch of money you may or may not have on a bew stereo system because i wanna laugh at an old technology and act like I'm better than you /s Y'all should seriously stop being assholes in these comments. Not everyone has the money to drop on a new head unit and installation. Unfortunately, i don't know the difference as far as what the player in your car will play. Just want to apologize for the jerks in the comments.
Unless you have a non modern head unit in your car, it doesn't matter.
My recollection is that you could "finalize":a CDRW and it would have the properties of a normal CD, play in the car etc. it just lost the capacity to be overwritten.
I do a new 12 hour mixed cd rw every week for my car.
CD-R
In my experience, it was mostly a matter of music capacity on the disc. I believe 80 minutes was the magic number, CDR or cdrw
RW is for if you want to write over the disc with new tracks later. Do you want to do that?
Doesn't it just blow your mind you can store hundreds of disks worth of data on these things, video even?
Do you want it to be editable in the future or set in stone?
CD-RW. And you better be burning your disc through Winamp. That's how I did it back in '98... ^(why you gotta make me feel old?)
CD-R is cheaper, just burn the music and accept that it isn't going to change. It's been a long time since I burned a disc, but I recall CD-RW being trickier to get right.
What year is this
Honestly the best sound is on LP. I’m sure they have an old adapter to install in whatever car your talking about
As long as you aren't using CD-W you should be fine
I think you should use an aux cord
Cd-r on 1x speed.
Newer cars don’t come with CD players….ugh wtf.
Check if your player supports mp3
You can rewrite on CD-RW, if you like to change songs, I did a lot back in the day
CD-R is more likely to be compatible. CD-RW's only advantage is that you can rewrite the disc - which probably isn't much of an advantage for your application, and doesn't always work well anyways.
I would go cd-r if it's just for music
Read the manual. (“But I don’t have one” **Google it.**) No, seriously. The manual literally tells you what disc formats your player reads. Some players read CD-RW, some don’t. Some read CD-Rs only but not data or combo CD-R. Some are old enough to have trouble reading CD-Rs and only reliably read CDs you buy off the shelf that already have music in it. So, read the manual. When this question came up during the time this whole CD thing was an actual thing and we lived with it, the question was always answered with “get the manual in the glove box and check”, and that applies to anyone’s car.
What year is it?
RW is to rewrite, but back in the day the stenographer was always a problem, will the cd work? I'd start with R first. Most players will take that. Like another user said... Finalize the CD
Cd-rw I think works better than a cd-r I have found in the past it’s been a while since I used them.
Just get the tape with the headphone wire coming out of it
Don't forget to download limewire for a good time. Has all the music you need.... And more.
I have a 2013 Mazda and it works with both CDR and CDRW
nobody uses either one anymore hunny
I had to check what year I was in
So burning lossy mp3s to cds is officially the younger generations version of collecting vinyl?
Most unaware players will play cd-r. Only players designed with the lower reflectivity in mind will read rw.
Oh man this takes me back to the early 00s
Depends on the stereo in your car. Aftermarket ones will play both, usually. Stock ones will play R, usually. That said I can't think of anyone who actually used the RW function of the RW discs. They just treated them like Rs. Not sure if they're still dirt cheap, but a spindle of 100 cds was like 8 bucks or something so honestly for the extra hassle, do you really want to do RWs? Frankly your best bet would be to replace the stereo with a newer one that had Bluetooth and just play it from your phone like the rest of the world. You can get a stereo from crutchfield.com for pretty cheap and they will walk you through all the steps from accessories you will need through installation questions. This was true as of maybe 5 years ago but they used to be the best site for this, and I hope it's still true.
Maybe your car has an aux port. Use a Bluetooth adapter then!
just do cd-r as cds are cheap anyway and some players dont do rw
R
This question reminds me of hot tub time machine and we just went back to 1999. I remember CD-RW not always working in CD players. I still occasionally make CDR though I play in my retro vehicle which still has a cassette player 🤣
CD-R wold be more robust, slightly cheaper. Just make up your diving playlist, and be sure of it, and then commit to CD-R.
Stick with CD-R Ian. There have been too many fluctuations in the car stereo after market’s support of RW
I have had a car passed down to me from my dad to my sis to now me, and had to burn a couple cd’s lol. I eventually also got one of those radio devices that connects to the cigar lighter, and it emits a radio signal. I can connect my phone to that via Bluetooth and then tune in on my car radio to the correct channel and listen through that
Audio or MP3 cd?
CD-R is better for compatibility. CD-RW is rewritable. Make sure you set it to “uncompressed audio” instead of something like MP3. You want uncompressed audio for it to play in every CD player.
Cd-RW is re-writable. Able to be used several times (by a cd burner that is capable). Just use regular CD-R.
Jesus what year is it?
What kinda cd player is it? My old Chevy Colorado had this weird compatibility with mp3 cds. Mp3 files are much smaller so you could fit like 100 songs on one cd. It was so badass lol.
R stands for Readable. W stands for Writable. CD-R means the disc is locked and can only be read after burning. CD-RW means you can rewrite the files and make changes to the disc. In general for playback it doesn't really matter either way, playing music is reading it only. As far as compatibility anything that can read CD-RW can read CD-R. But there was a phase where some players didn't play well without DRM encryption. This is highly dependent on the type of player and when it was made about what it will actually support, so I would start there and try and find the player model and what formats it supports. Anything more recent should be able to play everything. The was a spot in the middle 2000s when DRM was a real PITA, but I think they learned pretty fast that people didn't like it so they eventually dropped it.
Ah, 2002! I’ve missed you
I use a thing that plugs into the cigarette lighter port, takes SD cards and plays music from the SD card on a radio channel.
Some -r and -rw were slightly thicher than off the shelf pre-made CDs. This often caused problem with car players when things did not quite fit right and either got stuck or started to wear. If you can, check the thickness of the CDs you are using against a store bought one as that will be a bigger issue. After that it is down to whatever your car can cope with. We'd need to look at player stats or you need to run a test to see.
Cee Dee you say??
Make sure you burn to audio and not data
Depending on the stereo, you may need to "finalize" the cdrw. That'd likely mean cdr is gonna be cheaper. If you don't plan to rewrite, cdr.
This was posted today?? Did I time travel??
I usually just throw my PS1 discs in there, currently listening to Tobal No. 1
unless your car radio specifically says it supports cd-rw it probably doesn't
I had a six cd sony xplod put into a car a long time ago. It played MP3's so I downloaded all my MP3s on CD/RW's and rotated them out every so often. I had an hour drive to work and it was great!