I tried to put a collection of tracks (Wave files) that my friend sent me through email onto a CD-R. The tracks play fine on my computer, but when I burned them to a CD-R, each track sounds like static followed by silence, until the next track starts with the static again, etc. Any advice?
hi there ! what programme are you using to encode/burn ? it sounds like you just burnt the "cda" file. i use Nero to firstly save the tracks as PCM Wave files to hard drive. they should be about 30 megs in size for a 3 minute song. check the size of your burnt cd and you will probably find they are only 40 or 50 bytes. regards jay4
Thanks for responsing. I'm using a program called Sonic Recordnow DX Wizard that is within Sonic Mydvd to burn CDs. The files themselves are already in the Wav format and range between 6 and 18MB each. I can play them fine and clear through the real player on my computer but after burning them to CD, they are turned into static and dead silence, yet the length of each track is in tact. I haven't had this problem before.
actually, under the properties of my burnt cd, it says 0 bytes, as if nothing recorded at all. On the back of the CD where it usually appears as a solid block where it has information, it looks like rings.
It sounds as if they are not CD-Audio files at all, but something else entirely. They could possibly be DTS-WAV, or AC3-WAV instead. Or something entirely different of course. You say that they play okay on the PC - what app are they playing in, and what info is there about them please?
They are playing fine in both the Real Player and the Windows Media Player. The properties list them as Wav files and the format under the ID Tag says MPEG Layer 3.
Then there is a serious issue here. They cannot be both MP3 and WAV files at the same time. What is the bitrate as given in both media player, and in properties please? And the sample rate
Make sure you're burning the files as audio CD and not a data CD (sometimes I forget obvious things like this). Another approach would be using iTunes (free from http://www.apple.com/itunes ) to open and burn the files. iTunes will do all of the work (figuring out what format the file is and figuring out what it should be) for you. Again, make sure that iTunes is set to burn audio CDs and not data CDs.
