My Plextor PX760 drive died two years ago and thinking, perhaps foolishly, that most burner drives give essentially equal audio read and write performance-and because I hardly ever burn to disc-I used my Sony card points to buy this drive. CDRLabs.com - Performance - CD Read - Sony BWU-500S 12x Blu-ray Disc Writer - Reviews
Little did I imagine that, at least according to this review, its pressed audio CD read, extraction and CD-R and CD-RW burning performance seems questionable. Speed is not nearly as important as accuracy, and the review said that the drive did not create any errors. But what are the lead in and lead out sections of a CD? And how could the drive read the lead in but fail to read the lead out?
I use Exact Audio Copy for ripping CD audio tracks. Usually, I simply save them as uncompressed WAV files and play them through my DAC and out to my speakers. But I do need to burn some WAV and mp3 files to CD-R and/or CD-RW as CD tracks for someone’s standalone player to audition his speakers. Someone said that EAC can burn the files onto CD-R as CD tracks but that the process is not as simple and/or as error free as dedicated burning software. Please suggest software for audio CD burning which in your experience has proven to be error-free and easy to use.
Also, is it true that most standalone CD players will frequently not play audio CD tracks burned to CD-RW discs, even though the player’s owners manual claims compatibility? If yes, what is the usual reason (s) for this?
Little did I imagine that, at least according to this review, its pressed audio CD read, extraction and CD-R and CD-RW burning performance seems questionable. Speed is not nearly as important as accuracy, and the review said that the drive did not create any errors. But what are the lead in and lead out sections of a CD? And how could the drive read the lead in but fail to read the lead out?
I use Exact Audio Copy for ripping CD audio tracks. Usually, I simply save them as uncompressed WAV files and play them through my DAC and out to my speakers. But I do need to burn some WAV and mp3 files to CD-R and/or CD-RW as CD tracks for someone’s standalone player to audition his speakers. Someone said that EAC can burn the files onto CD-R as CD tracks but that the process is not as simple and/or as error free as dedicated burning software. Please suggest software for audio CD burning which in your experience has proven to be error-free and easy to use.
Also, is it true that most standalone CD players will frequently not play audio CD tracks burned to CD-RW discs, even though the player’s owners manual claims compatibility? If yes, what is the usual reason (s) for this?
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I sell quite a lot of software and just use Windows Explorer burner.
I just cut and paste files to the CDROM drive, do a right click and tell it to burn the files.
I just cut and paste files to the CDROM drive, do a right click and tell it to burn the files.
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Just make sure you select the CD/DVD player option when you burn the music files to the disk. (Assuming windows 10)
Many CD players will not play CD-RW disks, but almost all will play CD-R except for the earliest players. (None of mine including the car player will play CD-RW disks)
Many CD players will not play CD-RW disks, but almost all will play CD-R except for the earliest players. (None of mine including the car player will play CD-RW disks)
I use NERO to produce a Redbook CD-R(W). First make an image and then write as Disc-at-once. You will then have a disc that contains lead-in, program area and lead-out. The lead-out only contains time data and silence. It is placed after the last track to prevent the player getting lost when it reads beyond the last track.
I'm not sure the OP has NERO, I used to use this myself to burn disks, but in fact newer versions of windows will do it too. There will either be an option for audio disk or disk compatible with CD/DVD players depending on the version of windows. (J River Media Center is generally what I use in the rare case I need to make one these days.)
You just can't expect your old school CD player to playback mp3 or any other data file, it was never a part of the Redbook standard.
Might it be that it was the failure of the user and/or the burning software to create these lead-in and lead-out tracks of data which prevents many standalone players from reading CD tracks on CD-RW discs?
However, from what's said here while there may be playback problems with DVD drives due to laser wavelength incompatibilities, a regular CD player should surely have the required laser for playing CD-RWs. Understanding CD-R & CD-RW - Physical Compatibility But osta.org also says here that while drives designed to read and/or write CD-Rs and DVDs have dual lasers for this purpose, CD-RWs apparently have reflectivity and signal modulation too low for some (?) drives to read it.
Presumably, I've answered my own question. But in that case, why are users still buying CD-RW blank media? Could it be that CD-RWs are quite readable for things like "packet writing" but not for burning audio CD tracks to? Or it be that CD-RWs are actually often readable by many drives, but only if its burned in a Disc-at-once session, and not in a track or once or anything more than a one session job? And if so, doesn't a Disc-at-once session all but make the CD-RW disc essentially like a "write-once" CD-R?
No, I don't have Nero on my ancient Dell Pentium 4 desktop with XP Pro SP3. But I think I have it on my Sony Core 2 Duo T9500 laptop with Win 7 Home. I saw a folder for it in Explorer. I can try launching it and see if it installs. My laptop has a Pioneer DVRKD08 DVD drive.
But I thought that Nero, JRiver and most such software can format mp3 files as CD tracks, and thereby making them playable on most CD players. Indeed, those few mp3 files are really what I most need to copy to CD
media for this audition. I have pressed CDs of the rest of the music.
If they do they most likely decompress them to REDBOOK there is no provision for playing mp3's in RB just that some newer players play all kinds of files as they became popula, plenty of CD players play a disk full of mp3's. Plenty of free software to turn mp3 to 44.1/16 .wav too.
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I also use EAC quite a bit for ripping cds to wavs.
For auditioning, it makes sense to stick to either wav or flac (lossless) sources whenever possible.
For burning software I have had good results with Infrarecorder, free download at infrarecorder.org
For capturing/converting/manipulating audio files, Audacity is a very powerful, flexible and free open source application, Audacity®.
I use it to capture high quality audio from vinyl (that never made it to cd), and then convert to whatever format desired directly with Audacity.
CDRs are fairly inexpensive, and I have never had a playback issue with any player other than the very first ones that came out.
I do try to stick to brand name discs when possible though.
For auditioning, it makes sense to stick to either wav or flac (lossless) sources whenever possible.
For burning software I have had good results with Infrarecorder, free download at infrarecorder.org
For capturing/converting/manipulating audio files, Audacity is a very powerful, flexible and free open source application, Audacity®.
I use it to capture high quality audio from vinyl (that never made it to cd), and then convert to whatever format desired directly with Audacity.
CDRs are fairly inexpensive, and I have never had a playback issue with any player other than the very first ones that came out.
I do try to stick to brand name discs when possible though.
You can check with your computer to see if a disc is a CD-AUDIO or a CD-ROM that just happens to contains audio tracks.
I forgot that my copy of Samplitude Pro X DAW software should be able to do all of this. https://www.gearslutz.com/board/magix/samplitude-pro-x-g5053/
I’ll give this a try on CD-RW. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9YaKAzoa5ZI
If successful then I’ll do it on CD-R.
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