Can't play certain CD w/ape files

[rjc7394]

I have two DVD/CD drives that I have and I tried playing a CD that I burned a while back with 20 ape files and I don't get any response. In fact my Page File Usage went nuts and slowed my computer down. I don't have trouble playing ape/flac on my other discs. I may have played this particular disc maybe once over the last year, it is scratchless. I copied one of the ape files onto my HDD and tried converting it to WAV and my converter said "Could not be opened". What's wrong with these files? Why can't I convert them?

[stantheman1976]

Sounds like the files are corrupted. Just because there is not any physical damage to the disc they are stored on doesn't mean the information on there is preserved perfectly. CD/DVD burning is actually a pretty sloppy process and the discs can go bad eaier than you think.