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  dvdmike (dvdmike) 2-Debutant Username: dvdmike Post Number: 16 Registered: 4-2004 Posted From: 68.253.215.71 |
Hopefully, someone will be savvy enough to help me with this. I saved a lot of tracks from vinyl tracks to my hard drive and burned them to a CD. Problem is, several of the tracks did not pick up. They either skipped over completely or cut off after a minute or so of playing. I saved them as wave files. Can someone tell me exactly what to do as so not to have this problem? What is the best way to burn vinyl tracks to CD? I'm getting frustrated 'cause I've messed up about 5 CDs trying to do this thing. | ||
Juicefree20 (juicefree20) 4-Laureate Username: juicefree20 Post Number: 75 Registered: 4-2004 Posted From: 141.149.49.242 |
Hey Mike. You may have memory issues or other programs running in the background that is draining your memory. How much memory does your computer have & what operating system are you using? Juice | ||
dvdmike (dvdmike) 2-Debutant Username: dvdmike Post Number: 17 Registered: 4-2004 Posted From: 68.253.215.71 |
I have 160 RAM of memory and my OS is Windows 98 Second Edition. If I'm burning a CD, I never have anything else running. I've been using 80 minute CDs, but I'm always careful not to let the saved tracks overlap the time. | ||
Carl Dixon (carl_dixon) 1-Arriviste Username: carl_dixon Post Number: 5 Registered: 4-2004 Posted From: 82.44.203.80 |
Check the speed you are writing the CD! If you have older 'slower' burning CD's at say 4 speed and you burn at say, 8 speed (because you have a newer PC that can do it), you may have an issue. Close all programs running in the background (cntrl,alt, delete, or even use this: http://www.mlin.net/StartupCPL .shtml which is a nice little number and free.). With windows 98 you could right mouse click on 'my computer', then click 'performance' and see what your resources look like, and check 'file system', then 'hard disk' settings. Windows 98 can cope with 'network server' rather than 'desktop computer'. It allocates more resources and can cope with heavy duty work (which CD burning is). Even better try: http://www.outertech.com/index .php?_charisma_page=product&id =2 This even has a setting for 'CD burning'. It takes over Windows poor resource allocation and allows you to specify what your pc is used for. Some use it for games. I used my old Windows 98 for hard disk music recording and set Cacheman accordingly! I now use Windows 2000, which is very stable. I remember taking an audio demo CD to somebody. It started to skip in the middle of the tracks. The guy told me almost what speed I burnt the CD at!! Since then I burn no faster than 4. | ||
Ritchie (ritchie) 2-Debutant Username: ritchie Post Number: 30 Registered: 4-2004 Posted From: 62.254.0.32 |
I'd also suggest you might seriously consider upgrading to Windows XP, particularly as Win 98 is now officially "obsolete" (there won't be any further updates or patches issued, and there is no longer any tech support for this OS.) Personally speaking, I'm now running XP and its memory management definitely appears to be much improved - e.g. I can happily leave my BG programs running while burning CDs, even two at a time (I have two CD-writers on my system) with no ill effects. Since I installed XP in January, I've suffered one crash - which was actually my own fault, and I'm happy to report that neither of my CD burners has produced a single "coaster". (Of course, having 512 megs of memory tends to help too!) | ||
BassLand (bassland) 2-Debutant Username: bassland Post Number: 18 Registered: 4-2004 Posted From: 63.207.60.87 |
here is my 2 cents worth... Some CD software has the feature of creating fade out when you get close to the end of the track. it matters how you set that software to burn th CDs in question, Look very carefully at your settings and you may be able to solve your problem. Aside from that you might decide to record 2 seconds of silence or just insert it at the end of your tracks whioch might solve the problem if you can't find the setting. I would bet that you are using Nero software. If not what s/w are you using? BL | ||
Lady Mystique (ladymystique) 4-Laureate Username: ladymystique Post Number: 106 Registered: 4-2004 Posted From: 66.33.227.184 |
Yeah...and make sure you have BUFFER PROTECTION and ERROR CORRECTION checked or on in the PROPERTIES. That helps alot also! | ||
dvdmike (dvdmike) 2-Debutant Username: dvdmike Post Number: 19 Registered: 4-2004 Posted From: 68.253.218.94 |
Yes, Bassland, I have been using Nero, but I also have Iomega as well NTI CD-Maker, MusicMatch Jukebox and Real Player 10. | ||
Juicefree20 (juicefree20) 4-Laureate Username: juicefree20 Post Number: 80 Registered: 4-2004 Posted From: 141.149.49.242 |
Mike, the first thing that I would suggest is to upgrade your memory. CD burning takes up a lot of system resources. 160 MB of Ram is really pushing it. With that amount of memory, you can run into problems with buffer overruns. When your CDs are finished, do you get any error messages? You say that you don't have any programs running, but there are always some processes running in the background, whether you have programs running or not. In Windows 98, sometimes when you have several different types of CD burning software, you can run into driver problems. These programs are very jealous & demamding little creatures. Each one wants to be the ONLY ONE. I've found XP to be far superior. The only headache with XP is that if you add a significant amout of new software or hardware, you are prompted to reactivate XP, as your system has significantly changed. In addition, my motherboard burned out & I completely redid my system. Again, I was prompted to reactivate XP, as XP believes that you are trying to use it on another computer. Other than that, it hardly ever crashes & is very stable. LadyM makes a good point about the buffers. Carl makes an excellent point regarding the recording speed. If you check your Blank CD case, you'll see that there is a max recording speed. Even though I've got 1.25 GB of DDR Memory, If I try to max out the speed, I get overruns & coasters. I usually burn no higher than 16X. Finally, have you defragged your harddrive lately? Sometimes files are scattered across your hard drive. That can lead to problems, as the program works harder to retrieve needed files. Peace! Juice | ||
dvdmike (dvdmike) 2-Debutant Username: dvdmike Post Number: 20 Registered: 4-2004 Posted From: 68.253.218.94 |
I tried a little experiment this morning. I used my MusicMatch Jukebox to run a test. I imported the saved LP tracks from the MusicMatch Music Library into the MusicMatch Burner Plus for the test write and it tested with no problem. Then I tried a burn and so far it's worked. I'll keep my fingers crossed for the next ones. It did not test well on my Nero. ?????? | ||
Ritchie (ritchie) 3-Pundit Username: ritchie Post Number: 32 Registered: 4-2004 Posted From: 62.254.0.32 |
Which version of Nero are you using? Some of the earlier editions were a little buggy, but they progressed, ironed out the glitches and ended up with a decent program. Nero 6.3 is the version I'm using, and I'm very happy with it  | ||
SOULBOY (soulboy) 1-Arriviste Username: soulboy Post Number: 5 Registered: 4-2004 Posted From: 213.105.224.5 |
I have had a similar problem ,the CD writers seem very resource hungry,and if you are running applications in the background then i found it tended to fail on 95% completion. One of the most frustrating things about win98 is the fact that the only way that you can be really aware of the applications running is to press ctrl-alt-delete, and only then you can close the programs that you do not require. I do not know if XP is any better in this respect but i certainly intend to upgrade in the near future | ||
Ritchie (ritchie) 3-Pundit Username: ritchie Post Number: 34 Registered: 4-2004 Posted From: 62.254.0.32 |
Win XP is much better - believe me. I hardly ever curse Bill Gates these days! | ||
Juicefree20 (juicefree20) 4-Laureate Username: juicefree20 Post Number: 84 Registered: 4-2004 Posted From: 141.149.49.242 |
I agree with Ritchie, XP is far superior. No more blue screens of death. Also, when you bring up Task Manager, you see exactly what's going on. XP is great! Mike, I hope that you have continued success!!! Peace Juice | ||
Lady Mystique (ladymystique) 4-Laureate Username: ladymystique Post Number: 115 Registered: 4-2004 Posted From: 66.33.227.184 |
Yeah...XP is it! Much easier than the other OSes. Death to DOS! |
