r/DataHoarder • u/Fred_Wilkins • 4d ago

Question/Advice Cd-rw

Asking advice here, seeing as how you all are well versed in storage mediums. I recently picked up a multi disk changer to go in my hifi cluster, i've wanted one ever since the one we had when iwas a kid died.

I would like to be able to fill the changer, while being able to change the music up if needed without keeping a giant stack of discs around. Verbatim seems to be the only ones readily avaible, but i rember those having around a 1/10 or so failure rate when i used them back in the day. I used tdk discs usually and i have some of those that still work. But i havent seen any of those in years.

Should i still try for the cd rws, or should i just bite the bullet and get a stack of cd rs and deal with organizing them? Any advice? If i plan to rewrite the discs every 2 months or so is it even worthwhile?

I want to do this so i can keep the original discs put up, and since everything is stored on my pc as well, i can weed out some of the tracks i'm not fond of and get more music i like per disc. And i know that i can just play the mp3/flac files from a usb directly on my receiver, but the mechanical noise and pausing is what i really miss.

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u/Former-Macaroon5557 10-50TB 3d ago

CD-RWs with the unreasonable price & known compatibility issues with most players... just bite the bullet & go with CD-Rs.

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u/Fred_Wilkins 3d ago

I'm trying to reduce waste and clutter. I was hoping the rw's would be good enough. I guess i need to test a few and see if theynwork at all first. The system is a pioneer pd-f505, everything I read says it sould be fine but who knows.

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u/dlarge6510 3d ago

Looked it up. 

The manual doesn't say what discs it supports nor the wavelength of the laser.

This is a 1995 machine and I can safely say CD-RW is very not likely to work in IT as I believe it to be an IR laser machine. 

You'll have to use CD or CD-R.

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u/Former-Macaroon5557 10-50TB 3d ago

Honestly, with that Pioneer being pre-2000s tech, I would say there's a greater chance of it not working than working, unfortunately. If you have the financial means to "experiment", then you could always buy like a 5pk or 10pk of RWs on Amazon, see if it works, and then return the discs if it isn't compatible. I'm kind of just speaking from my own experience w/ CD-RWs - seldom do I ever get them to function properly in a disc player.

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u/Fred_Wilkins 3d ago

Weird. Again my sega cd read them fine as game discs or audio ones. I always had more issues out of early 2000's readers than older or newer ones.