Ummm, I'm guessing Burner is Pooched??

WolfgangPC · Post by **WolfgangPC** » Fri Aug 06, 2004 10:59 pm

Got a laptop, from a buddy to look at says he has a ****ed burner, anyways he is Using Nero Ultra, and it seems to do the process fine, however when you play the discs back in ANY stereo, it is all snap, crackle, pop...Any ideas?

ssjDoh · Post by **ssjDoh** » Sat Aug 07, 2004 3:05 pm

Try different CD-R's are burn at a slower speed. This happens to me if I use cheap media with fast speeds. The fastest I burn music CDs is 12X, but I usually go even slower at times.

Might want to check if the burner has a newer firmware aswell.

ghost · Post by **ghost** » Tue Aug 10, 2004 10:15 pm

Try burning a data disk at a slow speed and see if you can read it. If the drive is hosed, you can't.

I've had 24x drives that were going and would only burn at something slow, like 2/4/8x. Anything faster wouldn't work. Let us know what you find out.

WolfgangPC · Post by **WolfgangPC** » Sun Aug 15, 2004 3:39 pm

Ok, I burned a Data disk, and it worked fine, still if I do any type of music CD it will play the music with a TON of crackling and static over top, the drive is a TEAC CD-W28E...Any ideas?

YARDofSTUF · Post by **YARDofSTUF** » Sun Aug 15, 2004 4:21 pm

Is there alot of junk running in the background, or anything using alot of cpu power?

WolfgangPC · Post by **WolfgangPC** » Sun Aug 15, 2004 7:10 pm

Is there alot of junk running in the background, or anything using alot of cpu power?

No, the only thing running was the burning software, it's the same software I put in all of the systems, another thing though in the bottom right corner of the task bar, the "safely remove hardware" icon is always on, and when I click on it it always shows the Burner?? I took it out of the Laptop and put it back in, but that shows at the bottom no matter what? any ideas??

cyberskye · Post by **cyberskye** » Sun Aug 15, 2004 8:14 pm

WHat are the source files? Burning from MP3 direct to audio should be done at slow speeds - it has to perform an extra conversion step.

I always burn audio at 4x - never have a problem. When I have tried at faster speeds it displayed the behavior you describe.

So I'd either dump to WAV (or some otehr raw format first) or burn straight from MP3 at slower speeds.

WolfgangPC · Post by **WolfgangPC** » Sun Aug 15, 2004 9:43 pm

I always burn audio at 4x - never have a problem. When I have tried at faster speeds it displayed the behavior you describe

That's what I have been doing, using the slowest speeds possible and it still gives off this crackling noise, I don't get it, I have never seen this before.

downhill · Post by **downhill** » Sun Aug 15, 2004 9:46 pm

cyberskye wrote:WHat are the source files? Burning from MP3 direct to audio should be done at slow speeds - it has to perform an extra conversion step.

I always burn audio at 4x - never have a problem. When I have tried at faster speeds it displayed the behavior you describe.

So I'd either dump to WAV (or some otehr raw format first) or burn straight from MP3 at slower speeds.

Yep, converting to wav first is probably your best bet. Data CD's use checksums to make sure the data is correct. Redbook for audio doesn't have that overhead. Redbook relies on the DAC in your player to correct the errors...However, if your cd if full of them, that's what you get. Snap crackle pop...Burning straight from the HD vs converting on the fly will probably get the job done for you.

Also like the above already said, do a slower burn. Sometimes that can help.

BaLa · Post by **BaLa** » Sun Aug 15, 2004 10:41 pm

cyberskye wrote:I always burn audio at 4x - never have a problem. When I have tried at faster speeds it displayed the behavior you describe.

odd..

I burn my CDs ALL at 52x..never once had a problem ever...

most of the Audio CDs I burn are mp3 files being converted on the fly.