Having Troubles Help! Pleeeze!
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My wife recently bought me an LG Super Multi DVD Writer which came bundled with B's Recorder gold 5 And I have been having all kinds of trouble getting the discs to play I have done some preliminary investigation on the net and found that some players are particular about the type of disc, the color of disc, the speed at which the disc is burned, the mode and so on I have so far tried Memorex CD-R 700 MB 80 Min 48X Discs and Verbatim Digtal vinyl CD-R I have tried burning at 24X, 8X, & 4X with varying degree of results I can't get them to play on my boom box CD Player(Lenorxx'Wal-Mart special) nor my car stereo which is a 2003 Cavalier with a Delco stereo But they will play on my portable player which is a GPX What I have been trying to burn is Mp3's I have tried converting them to wav format and still no luck It has been suggested that Nero is a superior software so I dowloaded it and here we are I don't want to spend a fortune buying discs to find one that will work Any help or suggestions would be appreciated
The Hitachi/LG multi DVD burner is a very decent drive... however I don't own it, so I don't really know its intricacies.
For burning audio disks, i strongly suggest using silver/silver or gold/silver pthalocynanine dye CD's- best compatibility with standalones. media i can recommend without any hestation are Mitsui Gold (number one for audio, PERIOD!), Mitsui SG, Mitsubishi grade2, Tayio Yuden branded or not (top notch for data, but a few standalones don't like azo dye...), and from the cheapos Prodisk.
Sorry, but I have no real experience with the B's software (tried it but did not like it), for audio I would suggest ripping and encoding with Exact Audio Copy (next to NONE), and burning with Burrrn! or Burnatonce. Since I don't have your burner i don't know how well it works with their burning engine (CDRDAO for both- exhellent freeware, but unfortunately discontinued due to licencing issues).
Else I can suggest RecordNowMax 4.5- superb program, but having poor burner support for the last 10 months or so.
For burning audio disks, i strongly suggest using silver/silver or gold/silver pthalocynanine dye CD's- best compatibility with standalones. media i can recommend without any hestation are Mitsui Gold (number one for audio, PERIOD!), Mitsui SG, Mitsubishi grade2, Tayio Yuden branded or not (top notch for data, but a few standalones don't like azo dye...), and from the cheapos Prodisk.
Sorry, but I have no real experience with the B's software (tried it but did not like it), for audio I would suggest ripping and encoding with Exact Audio Copy (next to NONE), and burning with Burrrn! or Burnatonce. Since I don't have your burner i don't know how well it works with their burning engine (CDRDAO for both- exhellent freeware, but unfortunately discontinued due to licencing issues).
Else I can suggest RecordNowMax 4.5- superb program, but having poor burner support for the last 10 months or so.
A couple of quick questions From what I understand the software that I have used B's Recorder Gold5 and Nero6 both automatically convert mp3's to .CDA does this sound correct
Do most softwares such as the ones mentioned above automatically close the disc after recording when using CD-R's
Do most softwares such as the ones mentioned above automatically close the disc after recording when using CD-R's
yes.........
1. cda is not something existing- it is just a link to an audioCD track, which is not a real file- just a datastream. .cda is a link, this is why all .cda "files" are equally sized ( a few bytes). The actual convertion trhat's done automatically is MP3 gto WAV.Winfall said:
2. According to the red book standard an audioCD DOES have gto be burned in disk-at-once mode. This does not necessarily mean tthat a CD burned in TAO mode won't play in a standalone CD player, but you will miss some things like CD-Text, ISRC/UPC codes and pregap trimming.
My First reply, n Sorry i no Introduce meself yet........
If you are Ripping from Music CD to Hard Disk, get "dBpowerAmp" (of course there are loads of others out there besides this un) if you already got your Music in MP3 format then All you gota do is use the Wizard in "Nero" n chose "Audio" then find your Music Album in left window n open it..next window you can highlight all files n drag & drop into Right window, then click Burn.....AUDIO for Music & DATA for MP3s....Easy in it...
If you are Ripping from Music CD to Hard Disk, get "dBpowerAmp" (of course there are loads of others out there besides this un) if you already got your Music in MP3 format then All you gota do is use the Wizard in "Nero" n chose "Audio" then find your Music Album in left window n open it..next window you can highlight all files n drag & drop into Right window, then click Burn.....AUDIO for Music & DATA for MP3s....Easy in it...
Finding a media that works well in CD-R intolerant players is a bit of an art - ISTR Princo CD-R media having a better than average success rate in that area.
My own "fussy player" combination (better than any so far) is a tub of rotten old Fornet media
http://www.cdspeed2000.com/go.php3?link=cdrdetails.php3&n=53
Yes, they are CRAP, they ARE ropey after about 60min, and useless at 70, but burned at 2x, they show floor-level error rates until that point, and I've not found a player that doesn't like them - what I do when they run out, I don't know.
On a faster drive than mine, I wouldn't expect it to be well tuned at 2x, but 4x or 8x often makes a better burn for audio.
My own "fussy player" combination (better than any so far) is a tub of rotten old Fornet media
http://www.cdspeed2000.com/go.php3?link=cdrdetails.php3&n=53
Yes, they are CRAP, they ARE ropey after about 60min, and useless at 70, but burned at 2x, they show floor-level error rates until that point, and I've not found a player that doesn't like them - what I do when they run out, I don't know.
On a faster drive than mine, I wouldn't expect it to be well tuned at 2x, but 4x or 8x often makes a better burn for audio.