CDR Corruption (Game plays fine, but sound files damaged)

stilz · Oct 23, 2004

Hello,
Some of the games that I have backed on CDR uses uncompressed tracks (what do you call those? I mean you can just play them on regular stereos) for in game music. After a year or two, the sound tracks start to corrupt even though the games play just fine. By 'corrupt', I mean they are perfectly accessible but they would skip around within the song. The medias I use are: Memorex and Imation.
What I'm trying to ask is this: are uncompressed music files more suspectable to CDR corruption than data files? Are there any ways to correct this problem?
Thanks.

proger · Oct 23, 2004

You can pay 'em in recuar cd players, probally a cda file.

Player-X · Oct 24, 2004

Wrong proger CDrs tend to get corrupted if the shiny side is exposed to light (especialy sunlight) for an extended period of time, keep your CDr in a dark enviroment (Like a black jewl case) when not in ues

proger · Oct 24, 2004

I was explaining what the audio format was..!

stilz · Oct 24, 2004

None of the CDs were exposed to sunlight since they were all kept inside my room.

Player-X · Oct 24, 2004

Sometimes crappy CDrs would "rot" and get corupted, the game runs fine probily because it runs off our hdd instalation as for the audio runs from your partialy corrupt CDs

Cid Highwind · Oct 24, 2004

It seems that CDr's tend to have a shorter life span than CD's which were bought in stores. Because the blank cdr's do not have some data protection layers.

Do you happen to know how old those discs are?

2 Proger: Yes you explained what CDA was, but that was not his question

stilz · Oct 24, 2004

Player-X: I did fresh installations; there was nothing left on my HD. There's one instance where even the .exe file was corrupt.

Cid: They are about 2 years old on avg. But I *thought* Imation and Memorex discs are at least able to last longer than that.

Proger: Ah, I see.

Thanks everyone.

Player-X · Oct 24, 2004

The last 200 years thing was tested in a simulated enviroment that "simulates" 200 years in a "perfect" enviroment, in the real world the lifespan is around one year

Cid Highwind · Oct 24, 2004

Well I've had some Imation discs burned by my cousin, and AFAIK they aren't that good anymore either.... and they are about 2 years old as well. I never bought that brand myself, for that reason.

Foxfyre · Oct 24, 2004

Well, I've never had a problem with memorex, but STAY AWAY from imation. THEY ARE CRAP!!!!

Player-X · Oct 25, 2004

I use Verbatim discs

stilz · Oct 25, 2004

My problems happen on both Memorex and Imation discs though.

proger · Oct 25, 2004

My cheap circuit city cds work great, iv ehad some for 3+ years!

CDR Corruption (Game plays fine, but sound files damaged)

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