cd burning speed

Don't know about music, but I had to burn .NET at 2x speed. When I burned on 6x i had .ini file blank. Even after filling it out manually I had encountered further data inconsistancy during an application testing.
I think that music isn't less complicated than MSVS.NET and there may be certainly data losses depending on speed.

After a while I've burned quite a number of CDs from different formats and noticed that in my current workstation the speeds bellow 8x would stop burning due to the disk error. When I pull this CD out of tray I realize that it's not even half-full...

Marakanetz - I had bad copies using 8x DVD burner on 16x DVDs. Apple explains that problem might be related to limited range of power adjustment of the laser. Imagine writing 52x CDR with 2x speed. Burner adjusts laser power on a special track (assigned for that) but it might have hard time when moving slow (2x) while CDR is 52x (very sensitive photo-layer). Going much faster might be better but it requires faster computer operation and cause dropouts (buffer under-run). 16x seems like good speed - at least that's what my burning programs use in auto-mode.

I use Taiyo Yuden CDRs (they invented CDR) and burned over 500 of them without single coaster. Photo-layer is guaranteed to last 100 years.