Recently I have been having a hard time with my CD writer/burner. As it is now, I am not sure whether my problems are a result of software problems, or the CD writer itself. I suspect that it may be a problem with the actual drive.

I have tried to burn some music recently. I have been burning the discs at 1x speed to try and give them the best chance possible. I have also stopped working with my computer while the burning is in process. However, about 40% of the discs that I have burnt recently have had skipping and catching problems.

Also, before these recent audio CD's had failed, I had a few problems burning data CD's. I was transferring some music of mine that I had put into mp3's by writing the data to CD's. While reinstalling the mp3 data, I had trouble with some of the songs. Some of those also could not be reinstalled on the computer.

In all cases, when the skipping/catching problem arises, whether data, or audio, it stalls the entire drive and I have to manually eject the disc to close the drive window.

I have a dell inspiron 600m purchased in January of 2004. It runs on Windows XP. The CD drive is the original one sent with the computer.

Is there a way to test where the problem lies? What are my options? I really appreciate any help that anyone can give.

Thanks,
willie

Generally burning at such a slow speed gives no certaintity of a good burn.

You should use a decent brand of CD-R like Verbatim & not some of these unbranded discs that can be bought very cheaply.

Assuming the burner will burn as 40x & above then burning an Audio CD at 16x , with a 48/52x rated CD-R should give decent results.

I worked for the HP media group before. As far as I know most CD-RW's are optimized to burn at certain speeds. So setting a lower speed will not gain any advantages and sometimes actually reduces the reliability. The CD-R itself will also tell the CD-RW how to write to gain the best result. So if it's rated at 48x then it should be ok to write at 48x, not faster nor slower. I remember our vendors at the time, such as Lite-on, Sony, etc., showed us the report to prove their claims.

I work for a CD / DVD replication company now and we have to make copies for the glass mastering. We just burn the copies at the advertised rate of the media and never have any problems.

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As far as I know most CD-RW's are optimized to burn at certain speeds. So setting a lower speed will not gain any advantages and sometimes actually reduces the reliability. The CD-R itself will also tell the CD-RW how to write to gain the best result.


There is so much rubbish in your post, I don't know where to begin.

I'd love to hear the explanation?

hello there i'm only new to this so please forgive me
can anybody hel me please
i have burned an audio cd with nero and
when i checked to see what songs i had on the cd
all that i got was
track 1
track 2
track 3 and so on it did not list the songs
what can i use to burn an audio cd with my music from my hard drive
that tells you what songs you have on the cd
so i wont burn the same songs again???????
or is there a program that will write the titles of my songs instead of
track 1
track 2 and so on
Please help

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When you burn an Audio CD it's normal for your comp to list the tracks as track 1, track 2 etc, as they are in cda (audio) format not mp3 format (data).

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I am also having similiar problems with burning CDs.

I try to burn some of my NON protected WMA and MP3s to an Audio cd format like I have done hundreds of times before. But now with my new system running Vista Home Premium, when I burn an audio CD it shows that it was successfull, but it is not playable on any other player. It looks like it puts shortcuts to the CD songs instead.

It shows:
Track 1 44bits
Track 2 44bits
Track 3 44bits
and on and on...

I have tried using many different methods. I have tried using Nero Ultra, Zune Software, Windows Media Player 11, and also Easy Media Creator 9.... With the same results on all..

Can anyone help with this?!