so i'm trying to burn a cd, when i use nero the songs all show up as like 30 second songs so thats no good. and when i use roxio it keeps dying in the middle of the process telling me there were errors during the recording.
anyone know whats up with this?>

are you trying to burn an mp3 disc, make a normal audio cd from mp3s, or copying an album?

make a normal audio cd from mp3s

uh turns out i dont have roxio anymore to check, and i have nero but never used it as im using Sonic instead

you sir are a hell of a guy!

Try Burrrn. It's easy to use and free.

that was bizarre, i dl'ed burrn, it ejected the disc at about 90% but the program kept on going as if nothing was wrong and even said it was successful at 100%, so i opened up wmp to test it out and all the songs were cut down to a minute or 2

Have you tried just downloading iTunes and burning with that?

I know a lot of people hate it, but I don't really know why. Supposedly it fucks up some PCs, but it's never happened to me. I've used it on several different machines pretty much without incident.

you got hardware issues, my man

or gnomes or somethin

sounds like something's foobar with your burner.

This is the correct answer, methinks.

shitty buzz, anyway thanks

Burners are cheap. Could be worse.

Have you tried upgrading the firmware for your burner (if an upgrade is available)? It does sound like your burner is fubar, but it's worth a shot.

heh i've never even heard of that

Go to the website for the company that makes your burner. Check "Support" or "Downloads" or whatever will get you to the firmware section. Based on the fact that you've "never even heard of that," I'm going to guess that your firmware is not up-to-date.

I'm having problems with Roxio, too. I have a very old version I got w/ my Dell. It just recently started fucking up. They want too much to upgrade, so I went to OfficeMax and got Burn & Go X for $30. It was extremely easy to use, right up until it came to burn the disc. Then it wouldn't work, either.

So, I've resorted to using Windows Media Player, which sucks, hard. Has anyone figured out how to make comps using this?? It will copy my discs, but I had to slow the burn speed wayyyy down.

Just got back from Staples & bought some CDR Music discs. I'll just use my stand-alone burner for now, I guess. Grrrr.

Good luck with your issues. Let us know what you figure out.

fp

Man, itunes has been so easy. And so free.

it must be your burner. roxio did that to me all the time.
i use recordnow

thanks a bunch, i had no idea of this stuff, ive had this burner since i bought my pc 4 or 5 years ago. the site didnt have an update for my model but i just dl'ed the live updater so i wont miss out on any in the future

or not
after the update nothing is recognizing my cd drive
rebooted, not back to normal but working nonetheless

sometimes burners are manufactured by third parties and the company that makes your computer won't have firmware updates for them--on a couple of older machines i've had to track down updates from the third party manufacturers. what model dell do you have?

dont have a dell, its an MDG, a canadian chain

oh, right on, well what model is it? i can hunt around for some firmware

You should check out Exact Audio Copy for your CD ripping needs. I've been using it for a couple years now. It is truly the best ripper for Windows users because it does make exact audio copies of CDs, even if your discs are damaged. Copying CD > CDR on the fly isn't really good because errors can be introduced in the process (reference). Ripping the WAV files to your computer and then burning them to CDR is best. Here is a website dedicated to setting-up and using Exact Audio Copy. EAC is not as complicated as that contents page makes it seem; the website is just very thorough.

And if you download LAME 3.97, you can select 'Copy' (or 'Test and Copy' if you've got a scratched disc) Compressed and EAC will compress the WAV files to MP3 (the default setting is VBR) as soon as they're ripped from your CD. I always use EAC(secure mode) + LAME 3.97 for ripping albums to my computer. It's quick and easy as pie!

Download and unzip EAC and LAME to your desktop. Run the Configuration Wizard; you'll need to keep a pressed CD, a blank CDR and one that is all scratched up handy for this. To set up the compression options, go to 'EAC' > 'Compression Options' > 'Program, including path, used for compression:' and locate lame.exe. Then go to 'EAC' > 'Compression Options' > 'Additional command line options:' and copy & paste this command line into the field: -V 1 --vbr-new --pad-id3v2 --ta "%a" --tt "%t" --tl "%g" --ty "%y" --tn "%n" %s %d. That is for LAME's highest quality VBR MP3 setting, which is what I currently use. Or you could change -V 1 in that command line to -V 2, -V 3 or -V 4. Depends how high you want the bitrate, naturally. I like using the -V 2 setting, too. Then all ya gotta do is put the CD you wanna rip in the drive, highlight the tracks and select 'Copy' (or, like I said before, 'Test and Copy' if the disc is damaged) > 'Compressed' to rip the album to your PC and compress it to MP3. Oh and if you're ripping a pressed silver CD, go 'Database' > 'Get CD Information from' > 'freedb' to get the album information for the track/filenames and ID3 tags before you rip the disc. All your MP3s created using EAC + LAME 3.97 will be tagged. It's great.

EAC can also be used to burn CDRs, but I've never actually used it for that 'cause I use Nero. Sorry you're having such a hard time with CD burning, Finch. Good luck with that.