jonathanku

Well, the CDs seem a bit better - they are verifying properly now - even if I use a mono wav file as a source. However, in my car CD player, I'm still getting TOC Error on occasions (even with a stereo wav file input. I would blame that on my CD player because it's 6 or 7 years old, but most other CDs play in it fine, including CD-Rs. This other CD drive I'm using is reporting as Optiarc.

It's a Packard Bell pc with a second-hand LG DVD drive. I bought a new Pioneer drive the other day, but my first attempt resulted in a bad disk, so I whipped it out and returned it to the shop, assuming that it wasn't a hardware issue (but that was with a mono-wave file, not stereo). I'll try again with another newer drive I have... once these updates finish downloading and installing.

HL-DT-ST RW/DVD GCC-4480B 1.00 (ATA) Current Profile: CD-R Disc Information: Status: Empty Erasable: No Free Sectors: 359,847 Free Space: 736,966,656 bytes Free Time: 79:59:72 (MM:SS:FF) ATIP Information: Disc ID: 97m27s18f Manufacturer: Plasmon Data Systems Start Time of LeadIn: 97m27s18f Last Possible Start Time of LeadOut: 79m59s74f I'm guessing the status: empty could indicate a problem. Does that indicate a problem drive? This PC is normally stand-alone in a building without internet - hence the old software. I've actually just bought a network card today and am currently updating the PC with AV and SP3 etc.

OK, thanks. This time I tried a stereo track (16-bit, 44.1kHz). It seemed to write ok, but gave an error as soon as it tried to verify - "Layouts do not match". I'll attach that error, plus info from GraphEdit and the log and cue files if you'd be willing to have a look these for me. meeting-stereo.cue ImgBurn-LayoutMatch-error.log

That WAV file was a single channel 16-bit 44.1k wav. I was hoping ImgBurn might handle the conversion to stereo for me; if not, we'll work round that. I'll try this once I fix another issue which has appeared - the motherboard battery has died, so the bios isn't happy. Can't even boot up just now.

GraphEdit shows the following: Meeting.wav feeds into "Wave Parser" which feeds into Default DirectSound Device. Properties on that last box are attached as a screenshot if that tells us anything? Thanks for your patience.

Ah ha! I assumed GraphEdit was a feature of ImageBurn (found in file menu). Didn't realise it was another piece of software. Thanks again.

Sorry guys, I'm trying to go between the Imgburn pc with no internet, and the one in my house. So I didn't remember the exact instructions. LUK, sorry, I didn't even see your first post as I was reading it on my phone. DVD Info Pro was required by the two "graph" choices in the file menu- I'll give it a better shot tomorrow! I'll get on google as suggested. -JK

Can you explain further how to see any filter information in DVD InfoPro? I can't see this anywhere. Should I test disabling some codecs or anything - might that help?

Thanks... chose that option (then downloaded a trial version of DVD Info Pro) then tried the option again. I couldn't see any info on filters, but I only had a quick look. I'll search again (it's on another PC). In the mean time here's the contents of one of the IBG files... could this help me? IBGD ;PLEASE READ THE LICENSE AGREEMENT BEFORE USING THIS FILE ;BY USING THIS FILE, YOU AGREE TO BE BOUND BY ITS TERMS [sTART_CONFIGURATION] IBGD_VERSION=2 DATE=29/08/2010 12:59:21 SAMPLE_RATE=100 DEVICE=[1:1:0] HL-DT-ST RW/DVD GCC-4480B 1.00 (D:) (ATA) DEVICE_ADDRESS=1:1:0 DEVICE_MAKEMODEL=HL-DT-ST RW/DVD GCC-4480B DEVICE_FIRMWAREVERSION=1.00 DEVICE_DRIVELETTER=D DEVICE_BUSTYPE=ATA MEDIA_TYPE=CD-R MEDIA_BOOKTYPE=CD-R MEDIA_ID=97m26s66f MEDIA_TRACKPATH=PTP MEDIA_SPEEDS=N/A MEDIA_CAPACITY=359844 MEDIA_LAYER_BREAK=0 DATA_IMAGEFILE=C:\Temp\AudioRecording20100815.cue DATA_SECTORS=29897 DATA_TYPE=AUDIO/2352 DATA_VOLUMEIDENTIFIER= WRITE_TEST_MODE=False WRITE_SPEED_SELECTED=MAX WRITE_SPEED_START=14.40 WRITE_SPEED_END=16.27 WRITE_SPEED_AVERAGE=12.86 WRITE_SPEED_MAX=16.27 WRITE_TIME_TAKEN=82 [END_CONFIGURATION] HRPC=True [sTART_WRITE_GRAPH_VALUES] 18.18,999,99,0.00,0.00 7.20,1053,100,0.00,0.00 0.00,1053,100,0.00,0.00 0.00,1053,100,0.00,0.00 ....numbers continue for a while....

Hi folks, got a problem with audio cds and am looking for some help. I'm using a PC to record talks then transfer them to audio CD, but the CDs are pretty much always bad - either causing TOC errors in CD players or playing with crackles and pops. The recording comes through the PC soundcard to Audacity where we export as WAV. We then create a CUE file in ImgBurn and add the WAV to that. I've tried burning at a slower speed, but I normally see something like "tried for xxx kb/s (4x), got yyy kb/s (32x)" or something to that effect. I've tried a couple of different CD-R brands, and I've also bought a new Pioneer drive, but neither change has made any improvement. I've also tried enabling/disabling CD-TEXT - no difference. I started looking at advanced options for the drive, but I don't understand the implications of most of it. Any suggestions? p.s. I did read one post recently about a codec pack which can cause issues, is it possible to determine if that's also my problem? (I'm not 100% sure what's installed on this PC)