I was somewhat surprised to learn that Windows no longer will copy an audio cd. I tried two free utilities - buggy, didn’t work.
I normally work with mp3’s, but this music cd is all cross-fades from track to track. Gapless playback of mp3’s depends more upon the mp3 player than how the tracks were ripped.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!
That is odd, i have windows 10 creators update, and i can copy CD’s in media player like always.
I can also literally drag and drop the track files as well, if i wanted to.
Nero is a pretty good disc authoring suite if you need something else.
Have you looked at exact audio copy? It’s what I used “back in the day” when I actually bought physical discs.
Alternatively, both VLC and winamp allow you to redirect their output as a file. This is probably the best solution for what you’re trying to do. Check out How to master VLC, the ultimate Windows media player for power users | PCWorld for direction on doing this with VLC.
To eliminate gaps between gapless songs, I’ve typically spliced them together with a program named Audacity. This is more than an idiosyncratic choice, since I often do want to hear them back to back by default (such as when I am playing them all on shuffle).
I’ve generally gotten good results with Exact Audio Copy for the CD copying and MP3Tag for the metadata editing.
Its possible your burner has a firmware issue related to burning CDDA.
There might be a firmware update for the drive.
I used imgburn back in the day, a little bit, anyway. Otherwise, I use Brasero on my Ubuntu desktop, one-click copying, easy.