CD Burning from a PC - I am new and baffled!

[admin_exported]

I hope someone can help me out. I'm pretty new to all this burning a cd from a pc but my first attempt worked but my second attempt hasn't. All the tracks burnt onto the CD however when I popped it into the CD player it registered all of the tracks on the CD but 3 of the tracks produced no sound. I'm not sure why? The only thing these 3 tracks have in common is their 'bitrate' is lower than the rest of the tracks on the CD. Could this be the problem? What is the solution? The other 10 tracks all have a 'bitrate' of 300+ whilst my 3 silent tracks are 259, 256 and 192. They are all MP3 files. Help!

 

[John Duncan]

Are you sure the blank CD is big enough (ie what are the combined track lengths of the selection - not file size are these will get bigger when burning to an audio CD)?

 

[Anonymous]

The blank CD is a 700MB 80 Min disc. The total track length is 68 mins and 31 secs.

 

[John Duncan]

Not that then. What's your ripping software (iTunes etc)? Does the CD play in the PC (or any other player) after you've burned it? Could simply have been a bad rip - don't go too mental on the rip speed. Also, stick to 74 minute ones if you can, some players can be picky with longer ones.

Finally, you could take a look at kprobe or cd-speed which can analyse the quality of your rips.

 

[laserman16]

John is right about ripping speed, also close other running applications on your PC whilst burning a disc.

 

[ElectroMan]

I think 'rip speed' should be 'burn speed'?

In my experience of burning DVDs, doing so at the highest speed (16x) even with good quality branded high-speed discs isn't too reliable. (I also read some advice in a photographic magazine about backing up/archiving digital pictures not to burn discs at maximum speed.) If you can set a lower burn speed on your CD burning software that might help.

However it doesn't really seem like a disc issue to me - if you didn't get any error messages or the disc stopped playing then I'd guess the disc itself is okay.

I would expect any disc-writing issues to result in error messages when playing the disc. As suggested by JohnDuncan you could try some software to check if the CD is corrupt (although simply trying to rip it back into your computer would also test it).

Knowing what software you're using would help - have you tried any alternative programs?

 

[Anonymous]

Thanks for all your help so far. I am using CDBurnerXP. I have tried burning to another new disc but it is the same 3 songs again. The disc will play in the CD player and it registers them as tracks but when it plays them no sound comes out yet the other 10 tracks all have sound.

I can listen to them on the PC and they sound fine - just no sound when they are burnt to a disc.

What other software do you recommend? cheers

 

[manicm]

confusedatthis:

Thanks for all your help so far. I am using CDBurnerXP. I have tried burning to another new disc but it is the same 3 songs again. The disc will play in the CD player and it registers them as tracks but when it plays them no sound comes out yet the other 10 tracks all have sound.

I can listen to them on the PC and they sound fine - just no sound when they are burnt to a disc.

What other software do you recommend? cheers

Sounds to me it may be a case of copyright protection.

I have a Roger Waters compilation CD I bought and had to use a felt-tip on the circumference to get it to play on PC.

I also have a Jane's Addiction CD with copyright control, and when ripping the first song sometimes had dropouts.

 

[Anonymous]

I would agree with manicm here, sounds like DRM. Are all the tracks from the same source i.e. CD? If not there are simple ways around it.