CD-Text corruption

[Hergest]

I usually burn Audio CDs with CD-Text information, and I've never had a problem, until now.

I popped my CDR into my HiFi, which reads CD-Text info, and the album title has been corrupted - there's lots of spurious accented characters instead of the text I entered.

The first half of the track titles seem to be okay, but the last half are corrupted too.

The disk plays okay, and I can't hear anything wrong with the audio. Could it just be a dodgy burn?

I'm using Nero Burning ROM 6.3.1.6, with a Plextor 708A. Media is Discrite White 80min, burnt at 40x.

I have burnt loads of disks before at this speed in the same drive. This is the first burn with v6.3.1.6 though.

[CCampbell]

Very likely yes. I've seen this on occasion with some media, when used with certain Recorders.

Try a slower write speed, and see if that resolves the issue.

Or see if there is a firmware upgrade for your recorder. As this may come with a new Read/Write strategy for that brand of media to be used with that recorder.

Regards,

Craig