Dud CD

Phil_aka_Pip

Somebody burned a CD for me. It sounds like an off-tune radio station. background noise that pulsates in & out behind the music, that kind of thing.

What's gone wrong?

Hootsmon

much prefer Peter Cook

Fortheloveofguitar

They call it Dubstep

TTony

Are you playing it at 33 or 45?

Paul_C

is it really an old AOL cd?

richardhomer

I asked my 12 year old son who's really good with technology and he asked me,"What's a CD?"

Rocker

They only work "right way up" in those old CD player machine thingies...

Antique_Guitars

You can't play cds on record players chief!

PolarityMan

I would guess that issue is with the source since if the cd was corrupted, being a digital medium i would expect stuttering and dropouts rather than background nose.

Lixarto

A CeeDee?

Phil_aka_Pip

PolarityMan said:

I would guess that issue is with the source since if the cd was corrupted, being a digital medium i would expect stuttering and dropouts rather than background nose.

I believe the source was analogue. There is a small amount of stuttering occasionally.

Could it be one of those CDs with a thicker (thinner?) layer between the surface and the recording layer?

not_the_dj

Lixarto said:

A CeeDee?

Damn, he beat me to it!

Rocker

Think the OP might have discovered why the CD was in the charity shop....

Phil_aka_Pip

It wasn't in a charity shop. It was burned by someone I used to drink with from (unknown) analogue sources, probably bootlegs.