How fast burn cd

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Steve Hoffman Music Forums. Does burning a CD slower make it less likely to skip? Location: New York, NY. I've always burned at a fast rate, 8x. Some have skipped in the car. If I switch to 2x, does that make it less likely to skip? Is that the advantage of burning slowly?

Any other reason? Location: Texas. In my experience, the slower the rate, the better the burn. I have burned thousands of cd-r's, at 1x on my last computer, and at 4x on the new one, because that is as slow as it will burn. Dave likes this. Location: Bristol, England. Maybe a decade or more ago, but these days neither the drives or the discs, excepting audio discs, are optimised to burn at 1x, best to burn at a much faster speed, somewhere in the range current drives and discs are designed for, 16x, 24x or 32x, I'd be very surprised if your skipping problem is down to the speed, unless it's too slow.

Dubmart , Oct 14, Grant likes this. Location: Sandbach, England. Burn at the fastest your setup will let you. Life's too short. John B Good and crispi like this. In my experience, every combination of CD-R type and burner has an optimum burn rate, which is often usually? I doubt the presence or absence of "skips" is the best way to determine that, though; you probably need to go through the painstaking process of some test burns and then comparing the results by listening.

Walter H likes this. If you change media or burner, you will again have to try all available speeds to find the best result. LIteOn 48x starts at 19x or 22x, depending on firmware and selected speed.

Another burner is likely to behave differently. Disregarding theory, there are many empirical reports that reduced writing speed frequently helps reading problems of players with marginal CDR reading capability.

Sticking to the rated speed of the media is not an unreasonable recommendation for a problem player. There are exceptions to nit-pick, but ratings are guidelines and can be conservatively used as such.