Black CD's -

[Maloo]

Hi All - I'm a long time lurker and have been ripping my CD's to FLAC for many years. Today I purchased this:

https://www.discogs.com/release/2207076-Slayer-Soundtrack-To-The-Apocalypse

The CD's have a black playable surface and when placed into my ASUS external optical drive SBW-06D2x-U all CD's fail to read at all. They do play in my Marantz cd player so I have some comfort they 'work'.

I'm running dbpoweramp Release 16.6.

Does anyone have any experience ripping with black disc surface? Any settings for the drive I can tweak or actual drive recommendations that you have ripping black discs. Anyone have success and can provide the model number of their drive? Ive thrown 1000's of discs at the ASUS an its read everything perfectly.

Cheers

[ForSerious]

I remember some black CDRs we got back in 2007. I don't remember them having any issues back then. I don't seem to have kept any of them, so I can't test it now.
Unless you don't have a way to power and read data from it, your best and cheapest option is to buy a computer case at a thrift store with an old optical drive in it. They usually only cost a few bucks.

[Maloo]

Thanks ForSerious, I feel like I just have the wrong drive - they are so finicky. Ive got an old LG internal BD Rom ill try and hook up to another pc to see if it reads there.

If anyone else has any other ideas........HELP

[Maloo]

The old LG internal BD ROM was a success - I hooked it up via internal SATA connections and it ripped the 4 discs I required seamlessly. Is it the internal drive is providing more power over the external ASUS which is USB powered ????