Question: CD-R Strange Occurrence? I Burned a CD-R, (Imation), with 26 songs, (79' 34"), and put a label on it.  I played it in the car and It played fine until track 16.  Then it started skipping real bad and continued also on Track 17.   At this point I took it out and tried it in the computer and it played fine until Tr 20 and there it started skipping also.  So I figured it was a bad disk and burned another, and it plays fine anywhere.  Before I threw the original away, just for the heck of it, I removed the label and cleaned the surface with alcohol, (I did a real good job).  Then I tried playing it again and found without the label, it plays fine both on the computer and in the car.\n  \nQuestion: Is it possible there could be a problem with the label or the way it stuck on the disk?  I have used 30 or 40 of these labels and never had a problem before.\nStrange.......Any comments?

Answer: Label could have been off center enough to mess up the speed. Since the CDs have a reflective surface, the label couldn't interfere with the laser except through vibration caused by the off-center placement.
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