i FUCKING love optical media
„Optical media bad”
Oh yeah Mr. John Bringus? Fuck off! DVD-RAM fucking ROCKS and you can take your doodoo ass away JACKASS B))))
like look at these goofy goobers
mainly perfect for using music bought off bandcamp, shit rocks, cant wait to stick 'em in my cars stereo and make em :rotato-chip:
inb4 oh yeah zoomie, you never had to deal with bad writes :smuglord:
Sorry grandpa but Poland was technologically like 10 years behind the west in the 2000s. CD-Rs were my childhood maaaaaaan, and pirated DVD movies toooooo
I consider Blu-Ray new technology, and that shit came out in like 2006
Also Verbatim has some really cool stuff on their website it's really cool
I bought an mp3-CD audiobook so that I wouldn't have to deal with not really owning the DRM-infested download version (and uncertainty as to whether the state of the DRM arms race [and my limited technical skills] will allow me to liberate it before my purchase is clawed back [and no, I can't find it on the high seas or the library system]), but the CD-RW drive in my ancient laptop only seems to be able to read raw audio CDs correctly, it won't see data CDs.
Does any maker of external optical readers have a particular reputation for compatibility and reliability?
What the fuck? This must be a driver issue, it HAS to be able to read data CDs, there is no other way.
It mistakes them for blank CD-RWs and wont proceed without trying to format them
Might be that your drive is broken... Well an external Verbatim drive should be fine if you're looking for a new one I guess.
Oh and BTW I think Verbatim has ok drives for a good price, I've snatched a BD burner recently for 200zł B))))