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CD buring tips.
Akrovah
Ranger
in Zocalo v2.0
I'm wondering if anyone can help with this. It seems that anytime I try and create an Audio CD it never works right. Anything from the Final Fantasy7 soundtrak to the ITF track to a mix CD to play in the car, everything either fails, skips, or has weird distorted chirping noises when I play it.
I'm using 52x compatible CDs on a 24x burner, but i've lowered my write speed down to 16x. I'm not touching the computer when I'm doing it and I've even disabled my screen saver. Can anyone give my any advise on how to write a clean CD?
I'm using 52x compatible CDs on a 24x burner, but i've lowered my write speed down to 16x. I'm not touching the computer when I'm doing it and I've even disabled my screen saver. Can anyone give my any advise on how to write a clean CD?
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does it play well on a different CD Player?
Try 8x, 4x, and then finally 1x.
Audio CD's run a 1x when playing. With highspeed burning the CD unit you created it in should be able to play and read them, but a standard issue low tolerance audio CD drive may have trouble keeping on track and stuff...
;)
Can you read your data CDs on other computers?
Some (especially the verry cheap ones) are of low quality, and can cause problems while reading. Sometines the laser can't read a section correctely.
With data-discs that doesn't matter since the CD-rom will simply go back and read the section again. You won't even notice that it happened, but on an audio disc the music will skip every time that happens.
For instance, I burned a copy of the Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron soundtrack (LEGALLY, I have a store-bought copy.) and it plays fine on my DVD player, in my stereo, but refuses to play past the first couple of tracks in my mother's stereo.
I'd burn it at about 4 - 8x maximum. You could also try looking for some old 650MB CDs. Some players have trouble reading the 700MB kind.
[B]The spacing changes at different burn speeds? I don't think that's right. That would imply that burning faster would allow you to fit more data on the disc. What changes at different burn speeds is the intensity of the change in the dye in the disc, which is why writers that can burn faster and discs that can be burnt faster rely on faster-changing dye. When you put a disc burnt fast into a stereo (for example) it often won't be able to read it because the dye change isn't enough for its laser to handle. [/B][/QUOTE]
...and burning the music at slower speeds does help in this situation.
Edit: originally I said i selected 5x
your burning software is ?
whats your Harddrive spindle speed ?
In fact, may I suggest you list all your hardware, perhaps thier is a glithc that will show when you do.
remember also that a simple ordinary CD burner is ludicrously cheap... if you have a spare bay... it may be worth it to get a second burner. Having two optical drives is great in my machine, I 'tag team' install software from multipile discs etc... its all good
[B]do you burn from a CD image ?
your burning software is ?
whats your Harddrive spindle speed ?
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Um, lets see
no, I'm attempting at the moment to burn the ITF track to CD
Easy CD Creator (came with burner)
7200 RPMs.
This is actually my fiance's computer because my burner doesn't even finish a cd let alone one with errors.
ok,
Dragon MoBo P4 lite
Pentium 4 2.4GHz with 512 cache
samsung DVD-ROM/CD-RW combo drive
512 megs of memory, PC 2700 I think
ATI 7500
Sound blaster live 5.1
WD 80 gig harddrive. I think it has the 8 megs cache, I don't remember to clearly.
I think thats it
Different kind of blanks for that unit might do the trick.
:)
[B]Easy CD Creator (came with burner)[/B][/QUOTE]
Crap... crap... (not enough features)
But what CD-Rs you use?
There's very big differences between them.
If you can, buy Plextor's those are one of the best.
Also Werbatim Datalife [b]Plus[/b] should be pretty good. (without Plus and it's made in B-class factory)
You can check factory with CD-R Identifier.
[url]http://www.cdmediaworld.com/hardware/cdrom/cd_utils_2.shtml[/url]
Here's good, but little old page:
[url]http://www.cdmediaworld.com/hardware/cdrom/cd_quality.shtml[/url]
Unfortunately Kodak quited making CD-Rs.
I honsestly think it's not a read error, but the distoritons are actually being burnt onto the disc. I played it back in the burner I used to create it with and got the same chirps and bllips in the same places I did in other CD players. I'll have to try a different medium when I get the Chance. I did get these discs for like 5 bucks for 50 at an Office Max sale.
[QUOTE][I]Originally posted by E.T. [/I]
[B]But what CD-Rs you use?
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They are Memorex by the way