Maxell Music 80x / 700MB CD-R Media for Audio, 30 Pack Spindle

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Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 5.5 x 5.5 x 3.3 inches ; 2 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• Note: Gift-wrapping is not available for this item.
• ASIN: B00006IAAN
• Item model number: 625335
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
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• Date first available at Amazon.com: July 2, 2007

Product Description

Product Description
The music CDR is for audio recording only in CDR recorders. Once written, the information is permanent and can never be altered. When recording is complete, these CDRs can be played back on CD players, car CD systems, home stereo CD players and computer CDROM drives. These CDs conform to Orange Book Part II specifications. Manufacturers full lifetime warranty.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars all right by me !!!, March 7, 2008

By	Matthew G. Sherwin (last seen screaming at Amazon customer service) - See all my reviews (TOP 50 REVIEWER)

Maxell makes a very reliable blank CD-R that can handle up to 80 minutes of music or 700 megabytes of data. Moreover, these blank CD-Rs are capable of recording data at high speeds. I have used these as data discs and discs to record audio. I almost never got a coaster. Great!

The CD-R discs are compact and easy to store. While the discs are still blank, store them in the circular case on the spindle that they came in. After your burn data or music onto them, I would recommend storing them in slim jewel cases instead of paper sleeves. It's just better protection for your CD-Rs that have anything stored on them. Don't store these discs, burnt or blank, in rooms that become very hot; this causes damage to any brand of this type of disc and you could lose data over time.

There are two caveats that many other people note about any brand of this product: when you are burning the data onto the blank disc, don't be surprised if you see that the data is burning at a rate slower than the packaging advertises. This can happen if your burner doesn't have the capacity to burn faster, or it may be a quirk. I am not a professional so I cannot be certain of precisely what causes this phenomenon; but I assure you that the extra minute or two (tops) that you wait to get your CD-R completed is worth the wait. In addition, DON'T write on these using Sharpie ink pens. The ink can seep through the top coating of the CD-R disc and slowly but surely compromise your data--and you wouldn't want that, now would you? If you need to label the discs, label its jewel case using a post-it note.

Overall, Maxell blank CD-R discs store data very reliably and I believe that an extra minute or so to burn the data onto the blank disc is well worth it just in case it doesn't actually burn at the very highest speed advertised.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Don't waste your time or money, June 13, 2007

By	DKW (Island Lake, IL United States) - See all my reviews

Of all of the CD-R Music media I have used, Maxell has been by far the worst. Out of a spindle of 30 I have had to throw at least half of them away (and a number of the CD's that "worked" I burned pictures to, so it wasn't just a music issue).

When I contacted Maxell they agreed based on my feedback that I was using the discs correctly and asked for information from the packaging (which had been discarded; there is nothing of note on the packaging beyond what is on the shrink wrap). Then they asked me to send the bad discs in for replacement (and since I generally don't sit down to burn 30 discs at a time, most of these had again, been discarded as the problems occurred).

I think that Maxell will work with you if you save all of the "garbage" (shrink-wrap, bad discs) - but it seems unlikely that someone is going to save/collect these things over the course of using the entire spindle.

5.0 out of 5 stars Maxell Music CDs, April 27, 2009

By	J. Norton "NANA" (Alabama) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

These CDs are great. They are the only ones I have found that will work in my Sony CD Recorder.