/vr/ - Retro Games

Hi, /vr/. Please explain something to me. I want to burn some Audio-CDs and play them on my PS2. It's a Slim 90000. AFAIK Audio-CDs have no DRM, so there shouldn't be a way for any device to tell commercial discs from burned ones. I tried burning a few CDs, but none of them work on my PS2. It tries to read them a few times while it's stuck on the bootup screen, I can hear the laser head moving. But then it just fails and goes into the red "Insert disc" screen. At one point I was sure that the CD laser was broken, but then I tried playing this very old scratched-up Audio-CD. As you can see, there is a see-through spot on it, which should probably disqualify it from playing properly on anything, never mind PS2. But this is the only burned CD that I have that my console unit can read with no issues. It detects it instantly and goes to the track selection screen with colored cubes. The tracks play properly (well, at least some and at least for the beginnings of the songs, because that's as far as I checked). So what the hell is going on here? I've burned my CDs using ImgBurn. Should I use another program for this? I burned them at x10 speed because that's the lowest my multiburner could go at that point, but I've since found another one that can do x4. Should I just try burning another CD at x4 using ImgBurn and hope that it works? Sure, they are cheap, but it's still a complete waste to me if I get another one that doesn't work. Please help.

>inb4 go to /g/ or /mu/
I think they'd just laugh at me for trying to play music on a PS2 in 2024 instead of helping. This board is the most likely to be knowledgeable on this topic, and what I'm asking about could probably also be applied to burning and playing PS1 backups on a modchipped/mechapwned PS2 because it's virtually the same format as Audio-CD, tracks from PS1 discs can just also encode data.