Max CD-R size for iMPs?

[riverrock]

Hi all, anyone using 90 or 99 min CD-R with their iMP?

Can anyone confirm or deny that these discs are read by the player?

If you have had some success with these, please post length in mins, brand of disc, burning software and iMP models.

Thanks!

[Adam]

I have used a 99 min CD-R for my iMP-350, but I ran into problems with tracks at the start and end of the CD. They still played, but the player was struggling to read it, and it couldn't be good for the battery with all the seeking....

However, with a 90 min CD-R, I had more reliable results, but with a 80 min, it was 100%.

[Odie]

I agree, 90/99 minute cdrs will be quite hard to read on the imp's, but I had no problems at all with slightly overburned 80 minute discs with the imp-550.

- Odie

[riverrock]

Is it even remotely possible that support for these discs could be introduced through a firmware update?

[Odie]

It's probably unlikely, I think it's all dependent on the laser assembly, and how far that lets the laser read.

I remember back when people released 80 minute cdrs, there was one or two cd players that couldn't even play them!

- Odie

[riverrock]

Ah well, thats a pity, but if its hardware related there's not much to expect.

If a portable disc player with DVD+/-R/RW compatibility is ever released by iriver I think I'll have to have it!

[FlameGrilled]

To be quite frank about it, the only supported CD-R/CD-RW types for the whole iMP series up to the 550 is 700Mb (80mins).

So having probs with 90/99 mins stuff is only to be expected - as this really will only work (after a fashion) for some decks that happen to be super sharp in their tolerences.

And dont forget, burning speed is an issue to account for as much the need for good media when you want the best read performance out the decks.

You could say, along with my anti-shock testing and also abusing iMP's as compressed audio sources for supplying on demand audio in broadcasting, i've kinda been there and done it with the tolerence discover of the older iMP's (250 being the benchmark where ASP was considered to be spot on for performance and early 350's likewise).

FG

*notorious imp killer .. may his fur fall out as a pennace for such crimes*