CD Burning (hell) Help!

[Soton Seagull]

Having had a new CD (MP3) player fitted in my car in Monday I spent 3 hours last night saving about 140 of my favourite tracks to 'my music' (on XP) using real player. Burned a CD, but cannot be read by anything other than the pc. Tried again today, no luck. As I used Real Player all the file names end rmp, instructions (yes a man reading instructions - in desperation I add!) for my car CD say it will only recognise file ending MP3.

Any idea how my technical inept/inertness can be tranformed to in car musical glory?

I have spent the past hour and a half and wasted 2 disks already!

 

[Cian]

Don't use RealPlayer. You've got XP, so use its built in ASPI layer - just drop the files onto the blank disk and click "Burn" in the sidebar

RealPlayer is satan incarnate.

 

[Soton Seagull]

Does that mean I have to spend another 3 hours copying them to another part of the pc?

 

[Cian]

You don't need to copy them anywhere for any operation. Drop them onto the CD drive Explorer window and it'll do the rest from there

Or get a real CD-burning app like Nero

Or stop using Windows.

 

[Soton Seagull]

Just downloaded Nero, dragged file in to it, burned CD, didn't work. ANother disk meets the bin!

 

[Hiney]

Is it a CD-RW disk (as opposed to a CD-R) cos they won't work in anything other than PCs when you burn them

 

[Soton Seagull]

CD-R disk so it says on the sleeve. I have burned normal CDs for friends and they work on CD players. Typical. I buy a bit of tecnology and it doesn't work.

Back to wind up radio for me!

 

[moggy]

use nero 6.0 platinum.
by far the best for copying and converting mp3 & audio.
also it'll do your dvd writing if you have a dvd burner. i use shrink first to encode it then burn the dvd back with nero. works lovely.

nero is the best for music & dvd burning.

if you are running peer to peer software i.e. direct connect you can download it free from me.
just ask me for my ip address for access into my hub.

 

[US Seagull]

There's a plugin for winamp that will convert audio tracks into mp3 files. You could try that. Then any CD burning software ought to work.

 

[Barnet Seagull]

or get Soundforge.

 

[tinx]

So lets get this straight you have ripped your CDs onto your PC in real audio format?

You will have to convert them or they will never work. The problem is converting them will lose quality. I tihnk your best bet is to rip them again and this time rip them with something that will but them into mp3 format.

 

[Soton Seagull]

So lets get this straight you have ripped your CDs onto your PC in real audio format?

You will have to convert them or they will never work. The problem is converting them will lose quality. I tihnk your best bet is to rip them again and this time rip them with something that will but them into mp3 format.

Exactly what I have done! Just not switched on with this geek stuff! Driving me mad

 

[Marc]

Just not switched on with this geek stuff! Driving me mad

Serves you right for bying a CD/MP3 player then does'nt it


oh and do as Tinx says and you'll be fine.

 

[Marshy]

Alternatively by the original Cds......novel idea i know.

 

[Faldo]

I burned a load of cds a while back, and out of my numerous cd players, they only worked on half. Could it be down as much to the quality of the CD R?

 

[FG aka Football Genius.]

windows media player simple but like anything suggest try one first before going onto record your entire collection!!!

 

[tinx]

windows media player rips the files to wma and some mp3 players won't play them in that format.

 

[Soton Seagull]

Alternatively by the original Cds......novel idea i know.

I have! They are mine, I just want to convert to MP3 so that I can have loads of good music on 1 CD, saves changing it whilst driving, anD inadvertantly killing someone!

 

[Marshy]

I have! They are mine, I just want to convert to MP3 so that I can have loads of good music on 1 CD, saves changing it whilst driving, anD inadvertantly killing someone!

A very smart move.

 

[aftershavedave]

windows media player rips the files to wma and some mp3 players won't play them in that format.

by far the best option i've found is to rip from cd using freerip (or eac which i couldn't configure) and ripping in wav (ie near cd quality). both freerip and eac are free to download. then you can use nero to burn onto blank, gives you cd quality rather than crap mp3 or wma formats. as noted elsewhere nero is the best burning software.

only drawback is that tons of memory used up, so rip, copy and delete.

the end product sounds as good as the original on my b&o system.