WAVE via CUE to CD

[Pallieter]

Either I am very unlucky or I do not understand what is going on:

 

- I have a .wav file (a stereo wave file created by Cubase)

- I use ImgBurn to create a CUE file and than burn the CUE file to a CD (Philips)

- I than play the CD and it sounds very different from when I play the WAVE file (using the same software: VLC)

 

I tried doing the same on another computer (with the latest ImgBurn):

 

- move WAVE file from PC A to PC B

- test the WAVE file (sounded good)

- burn (using the same steps: tools, CUE, burn)

 

The quality is bad/malformed. So I reimported (using iTunes) the bad track from the CD, created a playlist in iTunes with both the imported bad track and the original (good) WAVE file. Used iTunes to burn an audio CD, put that CD in a normal CD player and it had 1 good sounding track and 1 bad.

 

Took a nap, tried again (this time I burned the a different .wav file recreated with Cubase with both ImgBurn and Nero), same result: ImgBurn mangled the sound, Nero did it right.

[LIGHTNING UK!]

ImgBurn has no say in how your file is decoded. It simply provides DirectShow/ACM with the source and destination formats. DirectShow/ACM then control the actual conversion and so any issues with the resulting file are down to them and not ImgBurn.

 

You've probably got a bad DirectShow filter driver installed that's messing things up. Try opening the file in GraphEdit and see which filters get pulled into the graph.

 

Codec packs and ffdshow often cause these types of issues.

[Pallieter]

Excellent, now it makes perfect sense: the .wav files should be in PCM format using 16-bit and 44100Hz (also known as CDA or Compact Disc Audio).