BAD BAD BAD

I made the mistake of labeling dozens of CD-R's in order to protect the top side against the elements and whatever else may pose a threat. I was using TY CD-R's of high quality. I still have unlabeled burns from 5 years ago that show very low c1 and a zero c2 error count when tested at max speed. CD's are flexible and do expand when warm and flex slightly in the drive from high centrifugal force. The smallest amount can cause the label to be pulled out of place very slightly and to blister, some obvious and some not so obvious blistering. I am getting the impression it also pulls some of the metallic coating on which the data is printed with it. If you are using discs with a coating on top this may not be an issue for you but I still do not use them. I mostly burn DVD-R's these days but with these old labeled cd-rs I have been going through hell getting data that exists toward the outside edge of the disc to copy off. On my DVD drive and 2 other CD drives it often will hang and eventually quit. Only my trusty black Mitsumi on an old P2 has been able to copy the data in these cases and only very slowly. The fact that discs from the same batch are doing good left unlabeled compared to the same huge yellow mountain of C2 error hell I get on the graph around the 60-80 min marks with the ones I did label makes me pretty sure it's the labels.