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There was a bonus disc with my cd which I assumed to be another cd, writing was very faint. After putting it in realized it was a dvd and now the cd player rarely works, was mostly working before. It’s probably the reason but just wanted to make sure

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    No, that wasn't the reason for sure. This is called a post hoc ergo propter hoc fallacy: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post_hoc_ergo_propter_hoc
    – ChanganAuto
    Commented Mar 16, 2023 at 23:05
  • @ChanganAuto I saw your comment and reread her question. I totally missed the fact she thought that was the reason. Amending my answer wit some more info.
    – Keltari
    Commented Mar 16, 2023 at 23:36
  • No, but doing it intentionally will.
    – Jim L.
    Commented Nov 4, 2023 at 3:18

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No, there is no harm in putting a DVD in a a standalone or computer based CD player. There are many newer types of optical media of the same size (like DVDs), but CD reader's lasers and their mechanisms inside are not capable of reading higher density formats. All that will happen is a failure to read.

I initially didnt notice you thought this was the reason for your CD player failing. Again, no. Something else is the cause of it not working properly. If this were true, virtually every CD player on the planet would be broken, as at some point everyone purposefully or accidentally put a DVD into a CD player/drive.

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No, it will just not be able to read it because the data is recorded in a different way, different sizes and colors on the disk layer.

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    Optipical media is called discs. With a C. Also, there are no "colors" stored on a disc.
    – Keltari
    Commented Mar 16, 2023 at 22:35
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    @Keltari - The nonsensical nature of this answer suggests it’s a OpenGPT generated answer. OpenGPT doesn’t understand context with regards to the colors that represent each layer on a disk.
    – Ramhound
    Commented Mar 16, 2023 at 23:35
  • @Ramhound I doubt it. I strongly feel modern AI is smart enough to know that optical media is called discs.
    – Keltari
    Commented Mar 16, 2023 at 23:43
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    I have detected that Ramhound is powered by OpenAI because he just kept calling it disk with a 'k' even after Keltari pointed out that optical discs are spelled with a 'c'. :-)
    – Spiff
    Commented Mar 17, 2023 at 0:30
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    @Spiff well if he learned something new... SkyNet begins.
    – Keltari
    Commented Mar 17, 2023 at 1:11

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