Audio tracks start in middle of song

videobruce · Mar 18, 2003

Using Nero, audio tracks start in middle of song

Using Nero V5.5.10 and a Samsung 48x16x48, the audio tracks from mp3 files converted to CDA audio playback at the middle of the selection!
Any ideas? I'm running 2k w/sp3 if that matters.

The-poacher · Mar 18, 2003

Try Other S/ware & or re install Nero to try again are the MP3 OK when U play em

videobruce · Mar 19, 2003

No they aren't, that's why the thread. When you play the tracks back, they start somewhere in the middle of the song!

scarecrow · Mar 19, 2003

This can happen with MP3 files with bad headers (usually of Kazaa or Donkey origin). You should try to decompress those ones before burning, by using either the MAD or the Speek decoder. In cases of exhessive frameclipping (50,000 frames are about one second of music) you have either to use an MP3 repair tool, or trash the MP3's (to my taste both these options are absolutely identical).

videobruce · Mar 19, 2003

This is with all the selections, not just a few. It just started happening with this new burner. My other burner, a TDK 12x was fine on a older system. Data CD's are ok.

If this helps, the buffer gauge cycles between 10 and 70 to 80% as oppose to staying around 95% as in the past.

Update on the problem:

When I play the first track only the last 90 seconds is played. If I let it continue, the next track palys within what shopuld be the first track! When I play the last track, the last 90 seconds of that track is played and then there is silence for what should be the rest of the selection. Almost as the CD is out of sync with the start and end of each track!

scarecrow · Mar 19, 2003

Are you sure you have not "altered" the Nero MP3 plugin?

daveml · Mar 19, 2003

Did u create the mp3s yourself?

videobruce · Mar 20, 2003

No to both questions.

I just made 4 CD's from the same files on my older box with the TDK 12x.

I'm also getting buffer underruns big time with these files. Data files seem to burn ok.

scarecrow · Mar 20, 2003

It may then be Nero's new "automatic crossfading" feature, which is activated even if the user doesn't want so...

videobruce · Mar 20, 2003

Then why is it ok with the TDK?

scarecrow · Mar 20, 2003

Wrong device driver, probably, as Ahead uses device specific drivers and not strictly MMC based ones. In fact only the company can give a full explanation on that.

videobruce · Mar 21, 2003

scarecrow said:
Are you sure you have not "altered" the Nero MP3 plugin?

No, and I wouldn't know how to do it either!

Update:

I swapped the drives between the two boxes and the Samsung worked perfect in the KT133 MB! The record buffer stayed at 97% all the way with the same tracks!
The TDK in the nForce2 MB did burn the same set of tracks ok, but it was a struggle! The record buffer and the used buffer fluctuated between 6 and 98% all the time!

Wrong device driver, probably, as Ahead uses device specific drivers and not strictly MMC based ones. In fact only the company can give a full explanation on that.

Device driver for what? The CD burner or the HDD's or what?

scarecrow · Mar 21, 2003

@ videobruce: Burner driver, that is. Do you use the same Nero version on the KT133 machine?

videobruce · Mar 21, 2003

Re: Re: Using Nero, audio tracks start in middle of song

When I burn something I always check the disc in another player to see if it burned ok!

Yes, it is the same version of Nero.

I'm going to reload 2k w/sp3 slipstreamed with only the video driver and see what happens.

videobruce · Mar 21, 2003

Just what it says; I use another CD drive to check the burned disc to see if it is ok. It should play back on it's own drive it was burned from, it's all the others you have to worry about.

Update on the update:

Well, I tried it in the clean drive with only 2k and the video driver and the same thing happens another coaster, BUT I ran a benchmark program in bothe drives (again both are bootable in the same box) and the CPU usage is 90% durning the CD speed test, where it is 0% in the other drive (with everything loaded)!

So, it's NOT the nForce2 drivers!

Now what?

BTW; I did check the cable and it is ok.

roadworker · Mar 21, 2003

Did you try it on another ide channel?

videobruce · Mar 21, 2003

There are only 2 and the HDD's are on the primary!

2 HDD's
2 CD's (one burner as slave)

That is the way I always set thing up and it always worked!

roadworker · Mar 21, 2003

videobruce said:
That is the way I always set thing up and it always worked!

Maybe so,but some burners don't like to be connected on the same ide channel...especially as slave...

videobruce · Mar 21, 2003

The HD is on the primary,
the burner is on the secondary!
I'm burning from the HD!

What's the problem?

The-poacher · Mar 21, 2003

The Ideal setup I have found is

On One IDE (say primary)
Master <<>> Hard Drive (The One U burn images etc from)
Slave <<>> Your CDROM or DVD Rom

On your second IDE (say secondary)
Master <<>> your second Hard Drive
Slave <<>> your Burner (CDRW or DVDRW)

this allows data to flow from ROM/Hard Drive to Burner without interuption

I Have always used this & for example I can burn MP3 from a CD to a CDR Audio On the fly @ 48 speed.