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Need some help on CD burning!!
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| feelgood |
Hey kids,
Im just wondering if anyone has any tips on how to burn CD's for professional DJ use.
I am currently using Nero 7 and am having trouble with some songs being burned.
Sometimes the following happens:
1- Only the first 10 seconds of a song is burned on to the CD and the remainder of the track is silent.
2- I get occasional beat skips and blips.
3- A track may not burn at all.
For what its worth, most of my tracks are 320kbps. They are all singles, that are free of blips and skips. They are all mp3 format, and are converted to .wav for the CD burning.
I burn at 24x speed on a burner that is capable of 52x speed.
My Computer is as follows:
Athlon 64 3800
3 gb ram
52x DVD rw LG drive
Lastly, what is the 'industry standard' CD burning software?
cheers,
Aaron |
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| jayxthekoolest |
nero 7 is a solid program and your songs probably aren't the problem.
the problem could easily be the fact that your optical cd/dvd drive may not be functioning correctly. if you're not able to burn any discs correctly, i'd say that's the problem.
edit: i've had an optical drive fail on me before to. by fail i mean it wouldn't burn cd's onto the computer correctly in the same matter you described. |
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| xtr3m |
Are you using CD-RW's? They aren't really supported by most CDJ's.
Also, what about the brand of your media?
You might find http://club.cdfreaks.com/ useful. |
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| skip |
if you're using an old version of nero 7, then the problem might lie in the mp3 decoder. nero 7 had some problems burning mp3s as audio CDs initially as the decoder ed up and made all those weird skips, blips etc.
or do you use some other program to convert the files to .wav first? if so, you should check the converted .wavs to see if they play fine. |
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| MERiDiAN5i2 |
Certainly is good to save the tracks to .WAV before burning. I usually open the MP3 up in Audition, adjust the peak level is just below 0 (digital "redline") and save to .WAV, burn with Nero.
If the audio source is already solid, properly leveled, etc I'll just decompress the MP3 with lame.exe --decode.
I don't recommend 24x... Even on a fast burner. I try to avoid burning CDDA audio past 8x, and never use CD-RWs (always use regular CD-Rs of high quality).
Some CDR drives are just piss-poor at burning audio discs. You might try another drive if you are still having troubles.
Another problem is you may have one of the various "anti-copyright-violation" pieces of malware on your machine. There are plenty of variants out there... It's been a long time since I've had to deal with these piece of shat, but they get bundled with alot of consumer audio software. They install themselves as "filter drivers" on your CD-R devices.
A simple little utility to see what filter drivers are being loaded, Filter Driver Load Order v1.0.009, is available from:
http://www.bustrace.com/downloads/free_utilities.htm
One example of anti-copyright-violation malware is the well-known Sony XCP piece, which is one of many that uses a filter driver.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extended_Copy_Protection |
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| feelgood |
| Thanks for the responses! |
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| cmay119 |
| quote: | Originally posted by xtr3m
Are you using CD-RW's? They aren't really supported by most CDJ's.
Also, what about the brand of your media?
You might find http://club.cdfreaks.com/ useful. |
I was thinking the same thing about the Media. If you've just bought some cheap brand CD-R's, they could be corrupting due to quality of the CD-R itself.
Taiyo Yuden manufactured CD-R's are usually the best (they're not a brand name, they outsource to other companies that stamp their brand name on it). To find CD-R's usually manufactured by Taiyo Yuden, look on the CD-R package saying 'Made In Japan' instead of saying 'Made in India' or 'Made in Taiwan'. |
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| Simcut |
| Very interesting thread, I've had some problems with burning CD's for the car, my burner freaks out whenever I try to burn a cd without 2 second gaps and with CD text, doesnt seem to like it :'( |
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| feelgood |
| quote: | Originally posted by cmay119
I was thinking the same thing about the Media. If you've just bought some cheap brand CD-R's, they could be corrupting due to quality of the CD-R itself.
Taiyo Yuden manufactured CD-R's are usually the best (they're not a brand name, they outsource to other companies that stamp their brand name on it). To find CD-R's usually manufactured by Taiyo Yuden, look on the CD-R package saying 'Made In Japan' instead of saying 'Made in India' or 'Made in Taiwan'. |
I have to buy a stack of CD's today. I'll keep that in mind.
thanks. |
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| MERiDiAN5i2 |
Right on, cmay, that sounds like good advise!
It always seems "Made in Japan" is a good bet :) Those folks know technology and quality. |
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