What do you use to make your CDs?

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Posted by desdel on May-07-2008 04:31:

What do you use to make your CDs?

I've been playing around with Windows Media Player and iTunes for weeks now, trying to figure out how to get my CDs to come out the way I want them to.

For some reason the order in which I list the files on the burner is completely irrelevant to how it comes out. I've looked at every angle from the order in which I drag the file into the drop-folder to the titles of the tracks (alphabetical order, etc). I'm pretty sure there is nothing I can do but get a different software program.

Furthermore, it seems that when I choose to make a data CD (so I can use .mp3 files) any .wav files I burn onto it as well won't be read by the deck. I'll have five .mp3s and four .wavs and it will read as /05. I don't know what that's about.

What I do know is that I have two CDJ1000mk3s sitting here which are absolutely useless if I can't get a burner that works properly. What am I to do?

Posted by ReclusNdangrmnt on May-07-2008 05:53:

I'm not sure if the CDJs read .wavs, but I could be wrong.
Just make an audio CD, or an all mp3 CD.

Posted by desdel on May-07-2008 06:00:

Yeah that's what I'll be doing from now on, but what about the whole organization issue =/

Posted by skip on May-07-2008 07:27:

i've always used nero. it's not that good anymore IMO but it's still loads better than windows media player.

Posted by Stu Cox on May-07-2008 08:41:

quote:
Originally posted by desdel
Yeah that's what I'll be doing from now on, but what about the whole organization issue =/

If you want both mp3s and wav-quality on a CD, you have to record a mixed mode CD with an audio section and a data section, the wavs burnt as audio and the mp3s burnt as data.

Although I don't know for certain if CDJ1000s will be able to deal with a mixed-mode CD - you're much better off either burning one or the other to a CD (so either do an audio CD with wavs or a data CD with mp3s).

You can normally only fit about 10 or 11 audio tracks on a CD, so organisation isn't really an issue, but you'll get that functionality with your mp3 CDs where you've got however many hundred on them.

Posted by Dj Gracjan on May-07-2008 11:07:

i also use nero because it's really easy and never had any problems. I do however burn one song on each cd. makes it ez for me to know exactly what song it is rather than have a gazillion songs all over.

Posted by nchs09 on May-07-2008 15:03:

I use nero and burn as many songs as i can fit (Usually 7 or 9) at normal speed and i have never had a problem.

Posted by DjWoody on May-07-2008 15:04:

I use iTunes.... It's easy and it works all the time.

1.- Make a playlist.
2.- Arrange the songs in the order you want them.
3.- Burn.

DONE!

Posted by Import on May-07-2008 16:24:

I use nero, it craps out all the time, i reinstalled and the same problem, so perhaps its not nero but my burner.

Regardless when it does work, it does exactly what i want it to, which is nice.

Posted by Scolomon on May-08-2008 05:11:

Agreed, Nero is easiest way to go

Posted by wesleysnipez on May-08-2008 06:06:

I have used Nero to for it but also have used. M audio Delta 1010 with Rack Digital Recording System with MIDI and Digital I/O a few times I borrow from a local studio.

Posted by n3lly on May-08-2008 10:47:

I use Toast.