Why doesn't my audio
CD play in my home or car CD Player?
CD Burning is not always an exact science, especially
when equipment older than 2 years is involved. Here are some hints
for ensuring your audio CDs created by Replay Radio are able to
play in your CD player.
- Use CD-R discs, and not CD-RW discs. Older
CD Players may have a hard time reading CD-RW discs.
- Ensure you have set up the Replay Radio CD
Burner with the proper speed setting. Settings a speed higher
than the disc is rated for may cause an unreadable CD to be created.
Select Settings, Setup CD Burner in the Replay
Radio software to configure your CD. If the disc says "4x",
then record at 4x, or slower. Some media works better at 1x,
2x, or 4x than it does at other speeds. You may find that slowing
down or speeding up the recorder helps.
- Ensure your CD Burner is supported by Replay
Radio (see below).
- Not all players get along with all brands of
CD-R media. You need to find a combination of recorder, media,
and player that get along. Sometimes, using a different brand
of media or a different CD player may produce better results.
What's the difference
between CD-R and CD-RW?
CD-R is short for "CD-Recordable". Recordable
CDs are WORM (Write Once, Read Multiple) media that work just like
standard CDs. The advantage of CD-R over other types of optical
media is that you can use the discs with a standard CD player.
The disadvantage is that you can't reuse a disc.
A related technology called CD-Rewritable (CD-RW)
allows you to erase discs and reuse them, but the CD-RW media doesn't
work in all players. CD-Rewritable drives are able to write both
CD-R and CD-RW discs.
Which CD Burners are supported
by Replay Radio?
The CDR/W drives listed below have been tested
and verified for compatibility with Replay Radio. This is only
a partial list, according to our research, currently over 800 drives
should be supported (we have not listed vendors we have not tested),
and we are adding these to our database as we can verify compatibility.
Listed farther down the page, is a list of unsupported drives.
We may add support for these LEGACY drives in the future, but at
this time, we do not support them due to the overhead of old proprietary
command sets.
REMEMBER: If a drive is not listed as supported,
but is not in the unsupported list, it is most likely a compatible
drive. If you find a compatible drive not listed, let us know so
we can verify it and add it to the list.
Replay Radio will ignore (not detect) unsupported
devices. If a drive is detected by Replay Radio, and you are having
technical issues, check your system settings first. Improper system
configuration is the biggest support issue with CDR devices.
FYI - If the list below does not contain specific
models, but instead says "All Current Models", we know:
- The vendor is using OEM versions of other
compatible drives.
- We have tested all of the current models.
Acer -
All Current Models
CRW-1832A
CRW-1032A
CRW-2010A
CRW-1208A
CRW-2410A
CRW-1610A
CRW-4432A
CRW-6432A
CRW-8432A
Addonics -
All Current Models
AOpen -
All Current Models
CRW2040
CRW1632
CRW1232 Series
CRW2440
BTC -
All Current Models
BCE 3212IM
BCE 1610IM
BCE 3212IM
BCE 128IE
BCE 2410IM
Buslink -
All Current Models
CDRW241040/RW2440
CDRW121032/RW1232
CDRW161040/RW1640
Creative -
All Current Models
CD-RW RW121032/E
Cyndyne
All Current Models
Digital Research -
All Current Models
DRCDRW241040
Hi-Val -
All Current Models
H241040A-15R
H161040A-15R
H121032A-15R
H321040A-15R
HP -
All Current Models
8000
9200
9600SE
8290
8230E
8200
8100
9100
7200
DVD-100i (CDR Functionality ONLY)
Imation -
All Current Models
IMW121032IAB
I/O MAGIC -
All Current Models
Iomega -
All Current Models
ZIPCD 650
ZIPCD
LG (Goldstar) -
All Current Models
CED-8080B
GCE-8080N
CED-8083
GCE-8160B
Lite-On -
All Current Models
LTR-12101B
LTR-24102B
LTR-16102B
LTR-24102M
Memorex
All Current Models
BBQ200
MicroSolutions
BackPack-All Current Models
Mitsumi
CR-4805TE
CR-4804TE
CR-4802TE
CR-48X8TE
NEC -
NR-7700A
Philips -
All Current Models
CDD4801
PCRW804
Pioneer -
DVR-A03 (Soon!)
Plextor -
All Current Models
PX-W124TS
PX-W124TA
PX-W2410TA
PX-W1210TA
PXR412C
QPS -
All Current Models
QPCDRW241040I
CRD-BP1500P
Ricoh -
RW8040A
RW7040A
MP7163A
Samsung -
All Current Models
SW-224
SM-308B
Smart & Friendly -
CD Rocket Mach 12X
Sony -
All Current Models
CRX100E/X2
CRX140E
CRX160E
CRX1611
DRU110A (CDR Functionality ONLY)
TDK -
All Current Models
Velo-CD 8X
Velo-CD 12X
Velo-CD 16X
Velo-CD 24X
Teac -
All Current Models
CD-W516EB
CD-W54E
CD-R58S
CD-W524E
CD-W58E
Toshiba -
DVD-ROM SD-R2002
Yamaha -
All Current Models
CRW2100XX
CRW2200XX
CRW3200XX
CRW4416SX
CRW6416S
CRW8824S
CRW6416S
CDR400t
CRW4261
Which CD Burners are definitely
NOT supported by Replay Radio?
These drives have proprietary command sets and
are not currently supported by Replay Radio. They also are typically
very old and are very limited in capabilities compared to today's
newer drives. We recommend replacing these drives, as they do not
always work well with the new Windows operating systems. Don't
worry, the list is short. Also keep in mind that these drives have
not been in production for some time, and many are duplicate OEM
drives - e.g. Some legacy Smart & Friendly drives (below) are
OEM versions of the legacy Sony drives (below).
AOpen -
CRW620
HP -
4020
6020
IMS -
522
CDD2000
JVC -
R2626
XR-W2010
Kodak -
PCD-225
Matshita -
CW-7586
Panasonic -
7502
Philips -
CDD2000
CDD2600
CDD522
OMNIWRITER26
Ricoh -
MP6200
MP6201
Smart & Friendly -
CD-R2006PLUS
CD-R4012
CD-RW226
Sony -
CDU920W
CDU924
CDU948
Teac -
CD-R50
CD-R55
Traxdata-
CDR4120
Yamaha -
CDR100
CDR102
Wearnes -
4424
I'm still having trouble. What
else can I check?
AIN (Auto-Insert Notification) - Be aware that
other CD/DVD aware applications may
change the AIN settings burning issues. Please be aware of this issue. If AIN
is
turned on in the target system, audio and data discs may not close properly,
at all,
or possible hang the system. It is very important to turn this off. The settings
listed below will disable AIN.
Windows 95/98/ME Settings:
1) Open 'Control Panel' and click on 'System'.
2) Select 'Device Manager' tab.
3) Click on the CD-Rom icon
4) For every CD/DVD device in the list, do the following:
Select the Device.
Select 'Settings'.
Enable 'Disconnect'.
Enable 'Sync Data Transfer'.
Disable 'Auto Insert Notification'.
Enable 'DMA' (if available).
Click on 'OK'.
5) Repeat #4 for each device.
6) Reboot the system for settings to take effect.
Windows NT4/2000/XP Settings:
Windows NT4 must have Service Pack 6 installed.
Set the following registry value to disable Auto-Insert
Notification using RegEdit.exe:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SYSTEM/CurrentControlSet/Services/Cdrom/Autorun=0
It is recommended to have updated IDE/ATAPI drivers,
especially if you are using
the SCSI Pass-Through option instead of ASPI. Using SCSI Pass-Through is the
default
setting for Windows NT4/XP/2000 systems.
it may be necessary to have security rights to
use the CD/DVD drives. To give CD
rights to a non-administrative user, do the following:
1) Open 'Control Panel' and click on 'Administrative Tools'.
2) Double click on 'Local Security Policy'.
3) Double click on 'Security Options'.
4) Double click on 'Restrict CD-ROM access to locally logged-on users only'.
5) Click on Enabled.
NOTE: CD/DVD access is not currently possible for users with Non-Administrative
rights
for Windows XP Home Operating System. Microsoft does not provide a mechanism
to provide
access to this type of access. This limitation does not apply to the Windows
XP Professional
Operating System.
What about ASPI?
Our components do not rely on the ASPI layer for Windows NT4/XP/ 2000, but
can be
used optionally. Under Windows 9X/ME systems, we use the currently installed
ASPI
layer (Microsoft ships ASPI with these systems). The following information
is only
for developers who want to install updated ASPI drivers, or Developers who
choose
to use the ASPI option under Windows NT/XP/2000 systems.
Certain software products can install incompatible, non-standard ASPI drivers.
Users
may be experience compatibility issues if other software products have installed
non-standard drivers.
Windows 95/98/ME all ship with ASPI drivers from Microsoft which work very
well,
but if you want to update them (in the case that other software has installed
another
incompatible version of ASPI), you will need to obtain ASPI drivers under a
license
from Adaptec, Inc. NOTE: Our software will run well under Windows 95/98/ME
as long
as the ASPI layer has not been corrupted by a non-standard version. These are
recommended
steps to take in case you want to update the ASPI layer with the latest Adaptec
ASPI
layer. Unfortunately, the ASPI installation from Adaptec, may not modify the
system
registry correctly for error free performance, so you may need to modify the
registry
. Here are the registry settings which should be in place for your system to
run
smoothly with the newly installed ASPI layer. This is not related to our product,
just a couple of helpful hints if you decide to add this functionality:
WARNING: IF YOU ARE NOT COMFORTABLE CHANGING THESE SETTINGS - JUST DON'T DO
IT. IT
IS POSSIBLE TO CRASH YOUR SYSTEM IF YOU ARE NOT SURE WHAT YOU ARE DOING. WE
ARE NOT
RESPONSIBLE FOR THE EFFECTS CAUSED CHANGING THESE SETTINGS OR INSTALLING ANOTHER
VERSION OF ASPI- DO THIS AT YOUR OWN RISK!
Launch RegEdit.exe (from the Start-Run window) to access your Registry and
search
for the string "ExcludeMiniports". This also can be done through
your application
or installation program, but the implementation is up to you. If the values
are
not there, ASPI is probably not installed correctly. The settings are located
in
the following locations:
Under Windows NT4/2000/XP:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
SYSTEM
CurrentControlSet
Services
Aspi32
Parameters
ExcludeMiniports
Under Windows 95/98:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
SYSTEM
CurrentControlSet
Services
VxD
APIX
ExcludeMiniports
If "ExcludeMiniports" is present, it probably has "ATAPI" as
the value. Depending
on your system, this should either say either, "ATAPI" or be an empty
string. "ATAPI"
or an empty string are the only valid settings we are aware of. If you can't
find
it in your registry, your ASPI layer is probably not installed correctly or
corrupted.
The empty value seems to work on most systems, but there are cases where it
should
say "ATAPI". It is pretty much a cases by case basis. After you change
any of these
settings, make sure to reboot the system to make the changes take effect.
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