System of a Down CD! Help PLEASE!!

[SunTzu]

Ok i bought the new SOAD CD, TOXICITY, and it won't play any music on my stereo or anything it just says theres one track with 58minutes of music but doesn't play any music. Whats the matter with it!?

 

[starlifter]

The way a CD works it the issue. Different manufacturers use different laser calibrations, and read certain data on the hub. If you have a CDRW, try using it to play the CD. The BIOS in most newer CDRWs is very flexible, and will adjust the laser to compensate for a very wide variety of disks and conditions.

If you have a CDRW, let me know and I can send or maybe post a free program that will examine the manufacturer and properties of the disk, and might provide useflu info, esp. if the disk is a CDR or CDRW. If it is a pressed cd (e.g., mass produced; silver on bottom, and not R or RW), then the info on the disk is mechanically transferred at time of manufacture from a physical template. If certain data in the hub or lead in is damaged, the disk will be unuseable for most people.

The most vulnerable part of a CD is the TOP, not the BOTTOM (read side). Even a pressure in the wrong spot can ruin any CD (pressed, R, or RW). This is because the data is stored very close to the label side. The bottom side can even be scratched with no data defect... especially if the scratch is radial and not circular relative to the hub.

So... test the disk in another machine. Recover the data and transfer it, if possible, and make a new CD.

 

[H Tower]

it might be that the disc has some computer stuff on it, and that's what your stereo is trying to read, skip to the next track and see if that plays

 

[starlifter]

I'm uploading the free program. It will probably only help if the disk is a CDR. Either way, either the disk is defective (but may be recoverable), or there is an issue with the player. If you can play other CDs, then look to the disk itself. I recommend just using CDRwin, Nero, or CloneCD to copy the whole thing to a CD-R. CDRwin can likely fix the largest range of errors at copy time, but it is the most complex to use and I don't know how technical you are.

 

[SunTzu]

I don't have a CD-RW

 

[SunTzu]

bump

 

[BlueMonday]

How old is your CD player? It may not be able to recognize multi-media data from audio data. The audio is 44 minutes long -not 58. I think your CD player is reading the Multi-media as audio. However, it might also be something with the disc itself, so grab your reciept and the CD and go get a replacement from wherever you bought it from.

 

[scorch]

man. nobody has thought of the obvios.


Take it back to the shop.