dbminter

I was just going to say the same thing. I think most, if not all, Audio CD's don't have disc labels. Though it can't be done automatically, you could change the name of the target save file to, say, Beatles, and the appropriate extension for it and any extra files you're generating along with the image will have that name. Audio CD's are unique beasts. They were created like a decade before CD's started being used for data in PC's. So, they're proprietary hardware with a proprietary format on them that the CD player reads. PC's were later made to play audio CD's as part of the CD process as a selling point for the hardware. Data CD's, with disc labels, came along later. This is why you need unique software for ripping tracks off of audio CD's. It needs a specialized translating layer between the hardware and the "software" (the audio CD) to convert the raw data the CD can read into a container format.

You know? I have to give CMC credit where it's due. I generally only disparage CMC because they cost me like $2,000 troubleshooting issues before someone told me about them. Plus, they make so much junk. However, THUS far, with the DataLife Plus/AZO Verbatim and TY Pro, CMC has NOT switched manufacturing processes to maximize profit by slapping their good names on their junk media.

Funny thing was I felt worse with side effects from the COVID-19 vaccine than I did with the actual COVID! I was down for a day with severe cold like symptoms, much worse than the ones I had with the actual COVID. Plus a bout of really bad shakes for like 30 minutes about 12 hours after injection.

Yes, Blu-Ray killed special features on DVD, for the most part. The BBC Doctor Who DVD's still have the extras that are on the Blu-Ray releases, but the BBC is a standout in today's market. As a means of hopefully forcing people onto Blu-Ray, the studios released bare bones affairs of DVD's and put all the extras on the Blu-Ray releases. They hoped to force people into adopting Blu-Ray over DVD to sell again what they'd already sold people on once before; didn't work.

Since you eventually got the burns to complete after a few hours, though that shouldn't be the case, of course, it's not a CMC media issue. I'm surprised it eventually resumed and worked, though. TY is one of the top two manufacturers out there. The other is Verbatim when they don't farm out to CMC, even though CMC now OWNS Verbatm...

Yes, it depends on how much data you've written to these CD-R's. If it stayed at 24x and you wrote an entire CD-R full of data, I'd be wary. But, if you didn't fill an entire disc, it may only have reached 24x by the time it got to finishing writing data.

Your issue is probably this: I 02:08:32 Destination Media Type: CD-R (Disc ID: 97m26s66f, CMC Magnetics Corp.) CMC Magnetics makes the worst optical media out there. Over half the problems we see on this board are caused by it and generally miraculously cleared up when you don't use the junk media. I would guess some kind write issue occurred and the communication was dropped. This particularly happens with errors over USB. Write rate simply drops to 0 and nothing ever happens after that over USB. Your cheapest best is to try changing the USB cables and/or use a different port. The next thing I'd try is using better quality media. Try the AZO/DataLife Plus CD-R from Verbatim. NOT the Verbatim Life Series you find in stores. Those are the CMC junk You can generally only find the AZO/DataLife Plus stuff in online stores like Office Depot or Amazon.com.

If you did not use a DVD-RW, which you probably didn't because you said specifically you used DVD-R, then the files can't be erased. DVD-R is WORM media, which stands for Write Once, Read Many. So, you can only write to them once. IF you did use DVD-RW or even DVD+RW, you can just write to it again and those contents will be erased and replaced by the subsequent write.

I never found the higher quality of Blu-Ray worth the price. While, yes, it is higher than DVD, upscaling DVD players like the PS3 can also achieve similar quality, so why bother? My big beef is how Blu-Ray players don't navigate like DVD's. For instance, you're supposed to be able to resume playback of Blu-Rays, yet, more than half of them don't support this feature like DVD's do. On the PS3, the Enter button also serves as Pause during playback of DVD's. This does not work on Blu-Rays. You can copy a Blu-Ray that fits on a DVD to a DVD and get it to play, but you cannot copy a DVD to a Blu-Ray disc and get it to play. Ridiculous!

The BBC is still good at releasing new series Doctor Who and classic series animated reconstructions on DVD. I prefer DVD's to Blu-Ray because DVD's navigate easier than Blu-Rays do in Blu-Ray players.

Hank and Peggy were so full of themselves, and completely oblivious to the fact! Bobby was pretty much the most well adjusted one, but Hank never could see past what he thought were failures in his own son. Peggy, at least, tried to nurture him. I will only get things on physical media. I refuse to stream anything. Movies, songs, TV shows. I must own a physical copy or I won't pay. Steams can be taken away from you at any time the license expires or the rights holder simply doesn't want you to have it anymore, like if it becomes politically incorrect.

Still love King Of The Hill even after all this time, BTW. I miss the reruns on Adult Swim.

You can always add USB 3.0 cards to your PCIe slots. Before I had a PC with USB 2.0 on it, I put in an expansion card to get USB 2.0 ports like 20 years ago.

That might explain why your USB BD drive is dropping communications, resulting in a semaphore timeout error. Semaphore timeout errors are a result of USB communication errors. USB 2.x is generally not fast enough to keep with the throughput required for a BD drive, which need USB 3.0 enclosures. But, you said you were burning fine before, so that's probably not the case.

Also, how long have you been using this Pioneer BD drive? You said you were burning BD-R fine and then it started acting up, which leads me to believe it's most likely the drive at fault. While Pioneer used to make the longest lasting drive I ever had (A BD that lasted for 2.5 years.) Pioneer's quality control has fallen off a cliff. Now you get about the usual 7 months lines span of something like, say, an LG BD drive. Not to mention the nagging 8x Ritek DVD+RW formatting failures that have plagued the firmware for the past 5 years and Pioneer refuses to do anything about, despite my repeated telling them the problem and how to fix it.

Oh, you're probably right! I do have a job that loads automatically on start of ImgBurn to set all my default options. And I bet the job has the previous setting saved in it where I had that option checked before. That's why it keeps getting reset. I didn't think about that one.

Is there a way to permanently disable Add To Write Queue When Done? If you uncheck the box and close ImgBurn, the box is enabled again. I looked in the Settings and didn't find anything. Now, disabling Add To Write Queue When Done is the only way to get ImgBurn to shut up that I should have used the DVD file when creating BD sized ISO's now in Build Mode. Thanks!

What exactly triggers the production of MDS files when the option is selected? For instance, for DVD-5 ISO's, no MDS is made, but for DVD-9's it is. MDS is also generated for any "CD sized" ISO files made from DVD's that are "CD sized." I am guessing MDS might be generated for DVD-9 to store layer break information? But, what about the "CD sized" ISO's? Thanks!

8 months is about on average from what I've seen before a drive needs replacing. It varies. I've seen things from 2 months to 2 and a half years. If you search your ImgBurn log, you'll see references to a Disc ID. MCC is part of that DID string. MCC stands for Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation, which means Mitsubishi made those discs for Verbatim. Mitsubishi MCC is the best stuff out there. Not be confused with CMC, which stands for CMC Magnetics, the worst optical disc manufacturer out there. Of course, now, CMC, OWNS Verbatim, just to confuse things!

I checked the log. You're using the AZO/DataLife Plus discs from Verbatim, which are the best stuff out there, so that's not the problem. Since it fails at precisely the same spot on different players on the same disc, it's most likely the media that's the problem, which means, in this case, it's probably the drive not writing properly to them. Have you always used this same ASUS drive back when the burns were working? Now, it could be a running change in the manufacturing process of the MCC's. For instance, on the LG WH16NS60, the MCC's had a change in the manufacturing process where firmware 1.02 no longer properly wrote to them. A firmware update, 1.03, apparently fixed it; I'm still testing it. Your best bet is to isolate the drive. Do as you intend and replace the drive. See where it goes from there. Verify, as far as I've seen, is really only for catastrophic failures. Data can still be "read" but not necessarily on the first try. And what reads on one hardware may not on another. Plus, PC drives are far more "forgiving" of read issues than things like standalone DVD players. As to my first point in the paragraph, I've seen, many times, DVD+RW that will pass a Verify, but will not play when put in a PS3 because it had actually reached the end of its life span. Never could figure that one out.

Yes, the Log will most likely tell us what I think is the problem. You're probably using something like the Verbatim Life Series DVD's, not the DataLife Plus/AZO series, you bought in a brick and mortar store. Those will be the CMC junk which may complete a burn and Verify, but have playback issues with many devices.

You'll probably be better off in the long run using those Verbatim. Even if your drive/cables/ports turn out to be the issue when you sort it out, you'll be better off using the quality discs from Verbatim. They'll last longer and have fewer disc playback compatibility problems.

I also did some Googling on the drive you're using. You're using an LG USB BD burner I've had a few times in the past a few years back. I didn't have problems with those Verbatim BD-R I linked before with that drive.

Yeah, those are most likely the CMC junk. HP has made little but junk since 2000 and HP does not make its own optical discs. They farm out to other manufacturers, particularly CMC. Since you linked Amazon.com, I'm going to guess you're ordering from America, like I do. Here's what I've been using for almost 10 years: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00GSQ4DBM/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1 I've had a 99.9% success rate with these. These are the quality Verbatim BD-R. If you have failures with those, then the problem is the drive you're using or the USB cable or port.

If the BD-RE work, what BD-R were you using? I use the Verbatim VERBAT-IM media, but, depending on where you live in the world, Verbatim may only make CMC BD-R. Ah, I see there's a majorly updated forum software release.