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Have you disabled autoinsert / autoplay / autorun on your machine? Does the OS make any attempt to 'play' the disc once you've reinserted it?

I can implement a workaround for you but ideally I'd like to capture the entire 'disc information' structure for that. Do you have Opti Drive Control or DVDInfoPro at all? If you have ODC, just put a disc in and bring up the 'Disc Info' bit. Right click the pane where the disc info is displayed and save it as an html file. Zip that up and upload it on here for me please. If you only have DVDInfoPro, I'll have to detail how to send the correct custom command. (so please let me know )

It really doesn't. Proper Audio CDs use CD-TEXT, some sort of database lookup (online or otherwise), or nothing. Players might be able to read MP3 style data discs and extract the metadata from the files, but that's not what we're talking about here.

Windows Media Player will query an online database to get Album info. Online album info and CD-TEXT are two very different things Very few CDs actually contain CD-TEXT. You can tell the ones that do because they'll have a CD-TEXT logo on them (on the disc itself probably, rather than the case). The logo can be found on the right of this page - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CD-TEXT

The only one I can't rule out (because I don't have it in mine) is pxhlpa64. The rest are fine.

Well at least you've something to go on now. What does your filter driver list look like (Tools menu)? Perhaps try installing some intel chipset device software updates, putting the controller into ahci mode and installing the Intel Rapid Storage Tech drive (assuming it supports your chipset). Something is obviously messing things up somewhere along the line

Yeah, it's the burnermax bit that doesn't work. If you want to go that route, buy the correct hardware.

Your drive can't overburn DVD+R DL discs properly. btw, the firmware on your drive is out of date - SB03 is the latest version. http://www.firmwarehq.com/Samsung/SH-S223F/files.html

Windows Media Player doesn't show CD-TEXT info unless you install the WMPCDText plugin. http://bmproductions.fixnum.org/moreprogs/wmpcdtext.htm That screenshot was from the burnt disc in 'Read' mode and not from the image file in 'Write' mode yeah? I just want to double check Don't forget, if you can find a disc in your collection that *does* show the Album Artist / Performer correctly in your car, please do what I mentioned in my previous post. I've no idea how you get a Disc ID, sorry. btw, there's a typo in the album name in the CUE - 'Variaous'.

Can you post the log please? As per the pink box up the top. At the moment it looks like your drive is having problems with the discs you're using.

I've already spoken to OpenCandy (several times) about the greyed out 'custom' button that some of the advertisers use and (as I understand it) they're in the process of offering us developers the chance to get rid of them (make it the 'normal' colour again). I'm not a big fish in OpenCandy's pond, but I do keep bringing it up with my contact there. All I know is that it's in progress and it'll (hopefully) be done when it's done. Where I've said things are against OpenCandy's policies, I'm pretty sure I'd have been talking about installing software without the user ever having seen any sort of prompt to opt-out of installing that software.

If you go into Read mode and click on the 'View Media Information' button in the Source box, does it list the correct Album Performer? If you can find a disc that shows the CD-TEXT album artist correctly on your player (in your car?), please read that disc to an image file using ImgBurn's 'Read' mode and then send me the *.cdt file it creates.

Please make sure you're actually verifying the disc as part of the burn. The 'writing' phase can appear to complete without error and the disc could still be unreadble. That's why verifying is important. As for the booktype stuff, it's already (automatically) being changed to DVD-ROM, so don't worry about it. Although your drive is branded as an LG, it's using a different chipset to all of their previous BD drive models. The usual LG booktype commands don't seem to be supported by these newer models.

It can't be firmware either, I've used the same drive as you and it works fine. There's no way 3 drives would return the same (identical) invalid data. They aren't even all the same chipset. Do the safe mode / other OS thing and get back to me please.

Does it burn and verify ok? If so, there's nothing more we can do. If it doesn't, post the log please so we can see what's what.

But aren't you having this issue with all of your BD discs? (Ignore DVDs, they're totally different) You've posted logs of BD-R, BD-RE now haven't you? They've all shown the same invalid bytes in the 'disc information' structure.

Ok, it really must be something else on your system then. Post a new log when you get round to trying it in safe mode. I'd even go so far as to boot into XP via Hiren's Boot CD or similar.

The device buffer isn't going to have anything to do with the problem you're having. It'll just be something your drive is doing. Post the log so we can see you burning and verifying the disc. If you burnt at what was supposedly the same speed on both apps and cyberlink took longer, it probably enabled defect management (so the drive verifies as it burns and remaps bad sectors).

If you don't have a drive that can actually over burn (where you then wouldn't be prompted at all), you should use the truncate option so the burn doesn't end with a failure to write beyond the end of the disc.

I think you've muddled up what it's telling you to do. The only build mode prompt for audio is an mp3 disc and it would recommend iso9650+Joliet for that. It does that because they're the most compatible in standalone players that support such discs. If you want to stop it prompting you, go into the settings and tell it not to.

You should have used truncate and left verify enabled. Then we could have seen what was going on.

Opting out works just fine, you must have missed something. OpenCandy's policies wouldn't have it any other way.

Because the installer uses the opencandy advertising platform to make product offerings during the install. You can read about opencandy here - http://www.opencandy.com/

Which error exactly? The buffer one? Stop using your machine quite so much when burning, your hdd can't keep up the demand for data.

The default settings work just fine. Buy Verbatim MKM-003-00 discs and enable the drive's 'Force HyperTuning' option. Then burn at 4x and it should work just fine - use the current version though.