Figured out my CD-R w/ cue burning problem!

[Galapidate]

Dunno if you guys remember, but I was annoyed over how a lot of times when I tried burning a set w/ a cue file the CD would skip and the audio was all distorted. I think the problem was that I left spaces between the tracks in the CUE. I tried closing the gaps and now I made a CD that works fine.

[asdf_admin]

what software were you using?

[Galapidate]

CDRWin...anyhow I just burned another same way with no problem.

[Galapidate]

Fuck, this third CD I burned isn't working now. Anyone have a clue what the problem could be? (Should I reinstall CDRwin? Something else?)

[asdf_admin]

do you have a different brand media? sometimes that is all it takes.

or if you have not ... try turning down your burn speed. that sometimes works.

[Galapidate]

do you have a different brand media? sometimes that is all it takes.

or if you have not ... try turning down your burn speed. that sometimes works.

Thing is I've always been using this same media...I don't know what problem could have started this now.

[Civic_Zen]

I was going to say the same as asdf. What brand of media do you buy? The crappy crap media thats really cheap is the worst investment you can ever make. Buy good media.

[KRANKHEAD]

Try downloading another version, i used to have that problem too, and got another version, and it works for me right now

[asdf_admin]

if you get a few bucks ... go buy a 5 pack or something like that. just try to get the "higher" brand.

just because it has worked once ... does not mean it should work all the time. so perhaps it can be a media issue ... or software ... or burner ... or creation ... just start some where and exhaust your resources. perhaps even another app ... o isn't troubleshooting fun? :wink:

[Civic_Zen]

Ya. As asdf says. I would first try better media (unless your already using god media) so let us know what your using. I have vast experience with CD-Rs and the different brands, and am pretty knowledgable on DVD-Rs now too. Then if you are using a good brand, or switch and it still occurs, try Alchohol 120% or Nero. Ahchohol is esp cool for images, which .cue files are. It burns cue, img, iso, and any other type of image file very well, and will lots of cool features. For all other CDs and DVDs I use Nero or DVD Decrypter. CDRWin was very good back in the day, but I don't like it in comparrison with the new utils. DVDRWin is total crap, maybe just me but I don't like it at all.

[superEGO72]

i have had issues with image burning where something about my burner was causing it to mess up. i never figured out precisely what it was messing up, but regardless of what media i used, it would produce the same error... and when a friend burned it for me, it worked fine.

what made it even wierder is that it was a legit winxp image straight from microsoft... and the error only came during the install.

[djkix]

i use EAC for my cue sheet CD burning. works like a charm.
the problem you're having might be from bad discs (meaning low quality discs), burning too fast, bad mp3/wav copy, bad LAME decoder, or buggy burning software.

if you're burning at say 48x, you might wanna take it down a notch to 24x so your harddrive could keep up.

in the past, i've seen all-distortion burns when my friend tried using an unsuccessfully-hacked cdr-win. for a legitimate copy of cdr-win, you'd have to enter the registration code but if you have a bad copy of the software, then you'd find out when you burn b/c it's all distortion.

hope this helps.

[Galapidate]

I'm using Memorex, which is what I've always had. Maybe I'll try reinstalling CDRWin or something.

[Galapidate]

Think I may now know the problem: I have two diff. types of Memorex CDs (one 48x read speed, one 52x read speed). I popped in a 48x one to burn a set and now it's fine. Maybe I just bought the wrong Memorex ones :P

[asdf_admin]

nice. "I told you so"