Home burnt CDs

[FatDan]

I have a 6CD changer in the car containing a mixture of home-made a shop bought cd.  All standard audio CDs.

The home made ones are very skippy and can only really be listened to when driving on very smooth motorways.  The shop bought CDs play fine regardless of how bumpy the road is.  The home made CDs are cheapies from Tesco.  So my question is,  could I reduce this sensitivity to knocks by using more expensive discs or are home recorded discs always more sensitive than 'pre-recorded' ?

[Dudley]

I had the same problem with cheaper CDs costing around 25 pence each so I changed to TDK disks costing 90 pence each and clearly marked 'Audio'. I have had no further problems. Maybe the cheaper ones are designed mainly for data.

[PunkDaddy]

Also I have found that writing Audio CD's at a high speed makes them more likely to skip. When writing them at 1x it improved.

[BillyNoMates]

You may find that the cheaper variety of CD-Rs are less reflective than manufactured CDs. As a result your in-car CD player has a problem with them.

A manufactured CD is very silver/gold in colour and CD-Rs tend to be quite blue. Try a different brand as has been suggested and all should be well. The laser power in an in-car CD player is usually less than a home CD player so the in-car players don't always cope too well.