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01-22-2007, 09:23 PM
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Pausing CDs and DVDs bad for disk? Is it true?
Okay~ I listen to a lot of audio books. I LISTEN to the books because I don't have time to sit down and read them. The fact that I'm working means I leave the room a lot. Most books have between 15-25 tracks. I prefer when I leave the room~ even for a couple hours~ just to pause the disk so that when I come back the book will be in the same place as when I left. My 17 year old know-it-all son insists this is REALLY BAD for the disks and that I am burning a track into the disk in the spot where I left the book paused.
Is this true?
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01-22-2007, 10:04 PM
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nope! the laser is not nearly powerful enough to harm the disk. its basically like shining a flashlight at the disk for days on end. now, it could MALFUNCTION and burn a line in the disk, but this is very very unlikely. the only time ive ever seen this happen was when somones PS2 laser malfunctioned. I have not seen it since.
Now, a burning laser ( Drive in a computer) CAN burn through the first layers on a CD-R/RW or DVD-R/RW and leave lines or Dots that you can see. I have seen this happen when somone has burned a CD too many times.. ( mind you thats nearly 1,000 writes and rewrites to a disk )
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01-22-2007, 10:05 PM
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Originally Posted by Mooing Tricycle
nope! the laser is not nearly powerful enough to harm the disk.
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I also say this based on the assumption that you are using a basic player to listen to the tracks?
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01-22-2007, 10:07 PM
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Thank you!
I was really hoping it wasn't true~ I hate trying to figure out where I was on a disk!
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01-22-2007, 10:08 PM
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I think it is harder on the drive itself than it is on the actual disc. If you are going to pause it for a short period of time (20 minutes or less) it is fine, but I wouldn't recommended it sitting for hours at a time.
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01-22-2007, 10:08 PM
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yes~ just a plain old player. In fact~ it so old it sometimes flakes out and I have to remove the disk and slap the player around to knock whatever controls the sound back into place!
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01-22-2007, 10:12 PM
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Originally Posted by Cheryl Marchek AKA JM
yes~ just a plain old player. In fact~ it so old it sometimes flakes out and I have to remove the disk and slap the player around to knock whatever controls the sound back into place!
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LOL time for a new one methinks! Theyre cheap... only like 20 bucks nowadays.... 
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