[LUG] OT: New CD Formats?

[Gemma Peter <gemma.peter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

About a year ago odd things started happening on my stereo, for some reason 
some of the newer music CDs wouldn't work, the stereo couldn't detect the 
tracks, however they played OK in a different CD player and on my laptop.

This would occur consistantly for a CD even if it was brand new (no scratches 
or dirt). Sometimes one disk out of a two disk set would play and the other 
wouldn't!

I tried burning a copy of an affected disk to see if it was a fault with the 
actual CD (CD-Rs normally play fine in the stereo). The copy has the same 
effect on the stereo as the original.

My stereo is quite old, have their been recent changes in CD formats that 
might account for this effect? Copy protection perhaps? Though I don't see 
why a company would go to the trouble to copy protect one disk of a set and 
not the other(s). Has anyone else encountered this?

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