Ditto here, like Anahata. My demos and also my early run albums are on CDRs, and once I persuaded Zorg to replace his 197something CD player with a newer one (joke), no further playability complaints received.

The thing is, Lynne, it is the availability of CDR technology for small batch production that has enabled so many artists to produce demos, and even their first few albums. Pressing CDs from a glass master (the "proper way", if you like) only becomes viable for batches of 1,000+; and only the top 10 or so gigging artists in the UK folk circuit can hope to clear such quantities in anything like a year. The remaining ordinary mortals are happy if they can shift a few hundred copies of their album. So, to avoid taking up space in the loft with unsold albums (and investing money they can't hope to see again any time soon), they turn to CDR technology. Hail the CDR, I say, that has allowed me to enjoy Mary and Anahata, Les Sullivan, Cloudstreet, Ruth & Kate, Jim Fauper, Chris Flegg etc - the list is endless.

So you'll have to use a newer player, that can cope with CDRs. Your PC should cope in any case.