CDRs Dead?
Many CD transports have a low tolerance to reading CDRs and CD-RW, interestingly an old Philips swingarm will play them no problem due to a very high tolerance design. Can’t say I’ve had degradation issues, but then I always burned at quad speed max.
As mentioned another way around it is to re-rip the CDRs and use M-Disc media.
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