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Your drive doesn't appear to like the discs you've got. Assuming none of the write speeds work, try some different ones.

Dig out the manual for your stereo and locate the pages telling you what it requires. Adjust the settings accordingly and burn on decent media. If the stereo flat out can't read the discs you're using, no amount of messing with settings is going to help. Post the log from you burning and verifying the disc please. As per the pink box up the top.

Your drive can't read the disc. Is it dirty / scratched? Try cleaning it. Try reading it in a different drive if you have access to one. Some are better at reading problem discs than others.

It's just fluke that sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't. There's no reason for it to work on one type of file and not another. The drive doesn't know or care about what it's burning, it just cares about the media you're using - it must not like RITEK-DR3 very much.

For whatever reason, directshow appears unable to convert the into the required format on your machine. Can you actually get them into the list on the create cue file window? If you can, what happens if you right click one of them and have the program display the directshow filter list?

It's unable to figure out how to burn (find the correct laser power for) the discs you're using. Try cleaning the drive with a cleaning disc. Try buying some completely different discs. Go for some Verbatim datalife plus ones that use the MCC dye (not CMC dye). Yes, you're using MCC dye now, but the fact it was sold under the Maxell name may well be the cause of your problems. They may not quite be up to the standard of the real Verbatim ones.

1. There's no way of automatically generating the destination image file name in Build mode. I believe you could make a batch file to do what you want though. So you'd drag your folder to the batch file and have that call up imgburn.exe with the right parameters. This may help... http://stackoverflow.com/questions/659647/how-to-get-folder-path-from-file-path-with-cmd and this may do the job... "%ProgramFiles(x86)%\ImgBurn\ImgBurn.exe" /MODE BUILD /BUILDMODE IMAGEFILE /SOURCE "%1" /DEST "%USERPROFILE%\Desktop\%~n1.iso" /START /CLOSESUCCESS The '/START' command line parameter will auto-start build mode without you have to press the Build button. 2. The only way to suppress the prompt at the end is to have the program close itself when it's finished. That'll stop it playing the success sound too though. That's done with '/CLOSESUCCESS'.

Couldn't find a guide? Did you try looking in the 'Guides' forum?! Admittedly, there's no CD-TEXT guide, but I think the 'Default' options should be covered in the settings one in there. The 'Default' options are what gets applied to each disc/track... without you having to do it manually. So if you always want the program to fill out the CD-TEXT fields with info from ID3 Tags (and variations of them), you'd choose 'Tag' for both of them. At 'Disc' level, you're filling out the album title / artist. At 'Track' level, you're filling out the track title / artist. Unless your files have the track number contained within the track name/title field in the tag, that info isn't going to be present in the corresponding field within CD-TEXT and I'm afraid there's no automatic way of doing that. To do it manually, have the program read the title from the files via its 'tag' and then switch to the 'custom' method (the info pulled from the 'tag' is retained). You can then prefix the title with the track number by typing it in. You'd have to do that for every individual track. If the GUI method feels too time consuming, save the CUE file, open it in notepad and then edit it directly.

They're detailed at the end of the readme.txt that's installed alongside the program exe.

That's just your interpretation of it. I'm happy with how it's worded - baring in mind it would need to be a small essay to be clear to everyone. Either way, it's not a 'bug'.

Ah, you're a bit stuck then. Stick to burning at 4x on BD media, your machine can't handle anything more than that. Is this a laptop?

You aren't reaching max speed there, so I have to wonder what the buffer level was like during the burn? (The software buffer, not the device one) Ignoring what ImgBurn says in the log about the drive running at USB 2.0 speeds, can you just double check it really is working at USB 3.0 and that windows doesn't say it 'could run faster' when you plug it in. If it's only running are USB 2.0 speeds, that may well be the issue here. Make it burn at 4x instead as 6x seems too much for your machine to handle. If it's running at USB 3.0 speeds, I don't really understand the reason for the write speed fluctuating so much when burning the first layer, but looking fine a little while after it. Were you using your machine quite heavily during the first half of the burn?

Often, this is perfectly normal, but I guess it depends on how much. Can you upload the graph data (IBG) file for us to check? Can you also post the log of you burning and verifying the disc please?

Who are you, company wise? What do you sell? Which products do you want to provide ImgBurn with? What's the purpose of said products (if not obvious) ? Links would be appreciated if this is on a website. You can PM me about this if you'd prefer it wasn't in a public forum.

The drive does the necessary lead-in stuff automatically, it's not done by the software. ImgBurn always closes tracks/sessions/discs when it burns and that can't be turned off. So, no, ImgBurn isn't going to help you.

Sorry, do you want to add files to a disc you've already burnt with ImgBurn? I'm afraid you can't, ImgBurn always closes the disc. If you're talking about adding extra files to the next disc you burn... why can't they just be added to the burn.txt list?

That's not something I do anyway.

If it burnt and verified ok, it should at least be readable / playable in that same pc / drive. So I'd say it must be an issue with your encoding/authoring software. Why don't you try something besides what you're using now? Try CloneDVD from Elaborate Bytes. Playback wise, media player classic home cinema or black edition should work fine. As should Videolan's VLC.

The default ones. Assuming you're using MKM-003 discs, set the write speed to 4x.

Sorry, it doesn't edit ISO files. The best you could do is rebuild it by mounting to a virtual drive, adding everything from said virtual drive into Build mode (I'd recommend 'Advanced' input mode here), adding your new/replacement files and then making it bootable (how you do that bit would depend on what sort of bootable disc it is).

You'll have to find another tool for the job. ImgBurn isn't what you need.

That's the program doing a dummy decode process on the file to get an accurate length of it. The disc can't be burnt without knowing such info. So no, it can't be disabled.

Did that sonic driver get removed when uninstalling the Roxio software?

Sorry, I'd forgotten about it being ok for a random amount of time after a restart... keeping in safe mode isn't exactly feasible! It is a very odd issue and I don't really know what to say. You'd pretty much just have to monitor it by opening the program every now and then as you're using your machine normally and see if you've done anything (used a certain program, bit of hardware or whatever) between things working normally and your drive I/O going really slowly. You don't actually need to want to burn anything, just load the program and close it again. Maybe you'll eventually narrow it down. Do you have anything listed in your 'filter driver load order' list? You can access that via the Tools menu. You can check event viewer if/when it goes slowly again too... see if there are any errors logged by the system.

Now try safe mode. It could also be something like the AV software you're running. It's just going to be trial and error on your part to get your system working as it should do.