Jeffrey John Hall wrote:
> 
> Hello All,
>                 I know very little about wave formats and so am
>               puzzled by the fact that my CDs sometimes will not
>               be recognized by some CD players. This AM one failed to
>               be recognized in a friend's player, yet when I checked
>               the disk on Fischer, Sony, and JVC, sytems at a local
>               emporium, the CD played back fine. Consequently, I'm a
>               little befuddled. (I burn the CDs with a Windows.PCM.wav
>               format.)

Your friend's CD player might be old. As CD players get old and tired,
they get fussy, and don't read CD's that newer CD players might. My
Denon CD changer just can't play some CD's, and other CD's it has
problems switching tracks. Of course, it can't deal with scratched CD's
at all. See Big Black's CD, "The Rich Man's 8 Track," for more compact
disk goodies.