Hi, I tend to burn a lot of cds, for music, data, etc. I have nero which is supposedly the best, but when i burn a music cd on it, it doesnt work on all cd players…in your opinion what is the best burning program? and could you give me the name of a program that can burn cds that will play on ANY cd player. thanks alot!
You are probably choosing the wrong format to burn. I doubt it has much to do with Nero.
Some CD players can read CD’s with MP3 formats and others. These CD’s can hold 150 songs or so depending on the bit rate you choose.
If you want to play the CD in a plain vanilla CD player, you have to burn the music in its uncompressed native format and the CD will only hold 15 songs or so.
Of course, if you are doing that already, the issue could be with your CD burner or the CD player itself. Some older CD players don’t read the writeable formats well. There is little to be done on that issue except get another play.
I don’t believe it is a software issue.
Opinions are best gotten from the forum called IMHO.
I’ll move this one for you.
samclem General Questions Moderator
Failure to play burned CDs on standard audio equipment needn’t be blamed on the burning program. I’ve had no problems with Nero in the past, but I always used Taiyo-Yuden discs (with the cyan dye, perhaps easier for the lasers in home audio systems to read) instead of the cheaper CD-Rs. But don’t take my word for it; try some different media yourself.
from the CD-Recordable FAQ
I agree, sometimes the problem is the dye, sometimes, it’s various type identification codes embedded in the media; some players are just more fussy about what they will accept than others.
Anyway, for burning CDs and DVDs, I’ve tried numerous offerings, including Nero (which I didn’t like), NTI CDMaker and various free ones, including CDBurnerXP, which is reasonable.
But I use the free version of DeepBurner; it’s fast, simple and it hasn’t ever let me down.
I’ve made thousands and thousands of CD-Rs with Roxio Easy CD Creator. I’m using version 6 now, but I just got the OEM of version 7 with my new DVD writer. The only times I’ve encountered CD-Rs that would not play on home CD players is because the player was old. Before a certain time, they did not build CD players with the ability to read CD-Rs, so on older machines, they may not find the start of the track, or skip at random, or fail to read at all. Any CD player made in this century will no doubt have the kind of optical pickup calibrated for reading CD-Rs of any dye type, and also CDRWs.
As the others have said, it’s not the burning program, it’s the machines you’re playing the discs on, possibly compounded by the type of dye in the disc.
How do you know that the CDs you’ve purchased were manufactured by Taiyo-Yuden and were made with the cyan dye? The CDs I’ve purchased are labeled as TDK, Memorex, Imation, etc., and I don’t believe the type of dye is labeled.
With a properly configured installation of cdrecord, load the blank disc and type at the console:
cdrecord -atip dev=/dev/cdrom
Alternatively, buy the Taiyo-Yuden discs in bulk through vendors such as All Media Outlet.
Blank recordable media are not completely empty; they contain something called an ATIP track which provides information about various disc writing parameters, such as timing and maximum recording speed, but also identifying the manufacturer and dye type.
Different types of dyes may require, for example, different levels of gain for the pickup laser - so the CD player will often have a set range of responses to the anticipated values. Trouble is that when a new dye type comes along, the appropriate response may simply not be defined in the firmware of the CD player and it may flatly refuse to recognise the disc as playable at all, or it may attempt to play it with some kind of default settings that just don’t work in that particular case.
Yes, but how do you know which CDs to purchase while standing in the store? Or do you simply mail order them as biqu suggested?
Unless its specified on the pack, or if you know that a given manufacturer favours a certain dye, you can’t really be sure. I personally buy them online from a store that posts user feedback against its product descriptions; very often one of these feedbacks will identify the dye (in the context of a comment about the number, or absence of ‘coasters’).
I normally burn my CD’s on Realplayer- it’s extremely quick, and I haven’t had any problems so far.
You can download the latest version on www.realplayer.com
Sorry, but Realplayer is not allowed on my computer. Some spyware getting on my computer is inevitable, I won’t go installing any on purpose.