mayo, butter, with out those things, what is there to live for, anyway ? Seems you're damned if you do, damned if you don't, bob.. So drink the red wine, take the branded, patented pink pill to lower your levels, after talking to your doctor, of course..

Anyway, sounds like you might have polished those CDs a bit too much on the grinder. I don't suggest taking any corrective course of action. Your poorly made CDs may actually benefit you in the long run, as your lame friend might stop mooching off you and get some waste-of-cash mp3 player.

You did use a green marker, right? They cut down on the laser reflections that make burning a quality CD hard.

Also, what was the source for the skipping tracks? If you're ripping them off an audio CD and you're not using EAC, you're an asshole.

The problem is compression. Mp3s already compress music (information) about 80 times. Cramming so many of them into a small space like your hard drive forces them to shrink even farther and then writing them onto a optical CD as mere photons compresses them yet again. You've created basically an informational black hole inside your CD player. The player can play the first few songs OK but as it begins to cross the event horizon into the hole, it becomes harder and harder for sound to escape. The pitch will drop until the speakers are emitting a perfectly low note for all eternity (or until you stop the CD, whichever comes first).

Don't compress so much and it should be fine.
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Before replying, please remember that I have a PhD.

I saw the dude once ... and he scared the living shit out of me.  You are just never prepared to meet that guy in person.  Of course, I may have been hallucinating.  I was pretty sleep deprived at the time.

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If you immediately know the candlelight is fire, the meal was cooked a long time ago. --- Oma Desala

I've had the skipping problems, I've purchased decent quality CDs and voila!  No more problems.  It's less to do with the OS than it is to do with the drive.  I have one drive (an old 54x thingy) that can burn scratched, faded, peanutbutter covered disks with no problem, and I have a new drive (dvd r/w + cdrw) that will only burn the nicest of nice blanks.

Get some "name brand" disks, and try, try again.
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Taken out of context I must seem so strange - Ani DiFranco

sure Bob the immigrant picks the veggies for a buck two 98, but the truck driver who hauls them to Huge Hawk in Ohio ( where it's still to cold to grow anything outside ) wants 50 an hour both ways.

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Blizzard of Death '06

I did buy salad today but I forgot to eat it with my dinner.

Perhaps I'll eat it now.

Thanks for the heads up, Bob.

I amd itn ecaptiaghle of drinking sthis d dar - Dr T

(Tut Motty on the language) I bought some oranges last night, and they're all sitting on the kitchen table instead of two of them being in my lunch box.

Mind you, six shillings for an orange?!?!?! When I were a lad, etc....