Well, just as I've had to pretty much retire my beloved Rotel CD player (from the mid 80s) due to the problems with CDRs, you may need to do something similar with your player. There's just so much CDR-only music out there that to me (and admittedly, my situation is different because I have no way to avoid listening to CDR demos and HSS releases and test masters and so on) it's important to have a player that will reliably play CDR discs.