I know this is dumb question and probably the wrong place to ask but--I made copies of some audio CD's (non copyright) and sent to my aunt up state. I put them in a bubble wrap envelope with do not bend stamped all over. The cd's would play on every player I have yet my aunt says the cd's are not playable even on her friends player. Other cds I have sent her in the past has worked. This puzzles me and am wondering if somehow the post office scanned with a magnetic device or did something else to cause this? Has anyone else had this problem?
LOL well as far as I know, there is no conspiracy between the RIAA and USPS to destroy copied CDs, and running CDRs through a magnetic field should have no effect on them, as CDRs don't have any metal in them. However blasting them with high doses of radiation probably would. When you sent the CD, was it in a sleeve or case, or just a plain disc by itself? My guess would be the CD got either scratched or the top coating that hold the data maybe got scraped off. Have you asked her to check for scratches? IDK man, maybe have her send it back so you can check it out yourself and see it plays...there's also the possibility that you maybe made a mistake and sent her a blank CD? (I only say this because I myself have done this in the past.....)
djscoop: I sent 5 cd's with each one in a sandwich bag and then all 5 in a bubble wrap envelope. I've sent at least 50 this way in the past with good luck & this is the 1st time this has happened. I told her to try several other players & if same thing happens to send them back to me. If it was just one that wouldn't work, I could understand but all 5! I'm also going to the PO tomorrow and see if there was a problem.
A bit off the topic, but maybe you or your family member is on the FBI watch list I think that it would be quite possible that if your package got X-rayed for some reason could quite well destroy the CDs.
