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Bhawns · Posted - Tue Sep 18, 2001 6:06 pm

What causes a burnt CD not to track properly on a disk player? I recorded a CD using (NTI a great program) Mitsumi 4048 CDRW, about 17 songs, 6 track properly but the rest didn`t, MP3s, what going on or not going on here?

Graeme · Member Location: Spain

Presumably it works fine on the drive it was recorded on. Firstly, have you tried the disc on any other player?

If you have, and it still won't play properly, then there could be a number of reasons for this - a search through the recent archives will reveal some interesting discussions about compatablility between the various disc formats and players.

Since you are using MP3 format, I presume we are not talking about an ordinary domestic player here, but the same arguments probably hold true for MP3 players as for the other ones.

Bhawns · Posted - Wed Sep 19, 2001 7:08 pm

The CD plays the same way on other players, my Discman for example. I have tried 3sec silence to the end of each song and it worked, then i burned again but a few still wont track properly like the last 4 songs so I will try a 5sec silence gap between songs and see. Any additional advice?

beetle · Location: USA

A few questions:

1) Are you using Disc-At-Once or Track-At-Once for burning your CD-R?

2) What quality blanks are you using?

3) Are you sure your burner is operating OK?

4) Have you tried another burning software?

5) How are you burning those mp3s? Are you burning them directly, or are you converting them to the .wav format first?

6) what do you have running in the background of the computer? Screen savers? Antivirus software? Other? Are you surfing the web while burning the CD-R?

Bhawns · Posted - Thu Sep 20, 2001 4:01 am

1) Are you using Disc-At-Once or Track-At-Once for burning your CD-R?
(A)Disc-At-Ounce.

2) What quality blanks are you using?
(A)Pengo Digital Audio CD-R, good.

3) Are you sure your burner is operating OK?
(A)Yes.

4) Have you tried another burning software?
(A)No.

5) How are you burning those mp3s? Are you burning them directly, or are you converting them to the .wav format first?
(A)Directly.

6) what do you have running in the background of the computer? Screen savers? Antivirus software? Other? Are you surfing the web while burning the CD-R?
(A)Screen saver and Antivirus.

2Bdecided · Posted - Thu Sep 20, 2001 4:59 am

5) Convert to .wav first. Use Winamp. See here:
http://www.David.Robinson.org/mp3decoders/decoders_winamp.html#screen

Now, check they are all 44.1kHz PCM 16-bit stereo wave files. How? Load them into Cool Edit and look at the status line. If not, convert them to this format using Transform:Convert Sample Type. Then save them as Microsoft Windows PCM .wav files.

6) Disable both when writing to CD.

Good luck.

Cheers,
David.
http://www.replaygain.org/
EDIT
http://www.David.Robinson.org/mp3decoders/faq.html#cd

Edited by - 2Bdecided on 09/20/2001 05:00:41 AM

jdechant · Posted - Thu Sep 20, 2001 10:13 am

I think before we tell him to convert his Mp3's to Wav, we should find out what burning software he is using, because alot of them support converting Mp3 to Wav on the fly when burning an audio CD...

beetle · Location: USA

You don't have to turn off your anti-virus because unless you have it set to scann all files at certain intervals, I highly suspest the screen saver since his problems always start at a certain point.

Ave also read that Pengo are NOT good blanks but that shouldn't have any impact on your problem.

Edited by - beetle on 09/20/2001 1:06:26 PM