Creating an audio CD

[Jleagle]

Hi, i have been told ImgBurn has this feature but whenever i try to create a CD it wont play on my old CD player which definitely doesn't support MP3s. Am i doing something wrong? Thanks.

[volvofl10]

Imgburn will burn an audio CD for you from MP3 files see the GUIDE HERE

 

or if you have a player that WILL play MP3 files, then just make a data disc of MP3's .

 

The discs you made, do they play on your correctly on your PC ?

[Jleagle]

Cheers for the guide, i must have been searching for the wrong things!

 

The CDs worked fine on my PC so i guess they were data CDs...

[Jleagle]

Cheers for the guide, i must have been searching for the wrong things!

 

The CDs worked fine on my PC so i guess they were data CDs...

 

Okay i tried this and it doesnt seem to be creatign the CUE file correctly which is not letting it burn. This is the contents of the file, surely every song cant be "INDEX 01 00:00:00".

 

 

FILE "C:\Documents and Settings\Windows\My Documents\My Music\ABBA\Greatest Hits\01 Dancing Queen.mp3" MP3
 TRACK 01 AUDIO
INDEX 01 00:00:00
FILE "C:\Documents and Settings\Windows\My Documents\My Music\ABBA\Greatest Hits\02 Knowing Me, Knowing You.mp3" MP3
 TRACK 02 AUDIO
INDEX 01 00:00:00
FILE "C:\Documents and Settings\Windows\My Documents\My Music\ABBA\Greatest Hits\03 Take A Chance On Me.mp3" MP3
 TRACK 03 AUDIO
INDEX 01 00:00:00
FILE "C:\Documents and Settings\Windows\My Documents\My Music\ABBA\Greatest Hits\04 Mamma Mia.mp3" MP3
 TRACK 04 AUDIO
INDEX 01 00:00:00
FILE "C:\Documents and Settings\Windows\My Documents\My Music\ABBA\Greatest Hits\05 Lay All Your Love On Me.mp3" MP3
 TRACK 05 AUDIO
INDEX 01 00:00:00
FILE "C:\Documents and Settings\Windows\My Documents\My Music\ABBA\Greatest Hits\06 Super Trouper.mp3" MP3
 TRACK 06 AUDIO
INDEX 01 00:00:00
FILE "C:\Documents and Settings\Windows\My Documents\My Music\ABBA\Greatest Hits\07 I Have A Dream.mp3" MP3
 TRACK 07 AUDIO
INDEX 01 00:00:00
FILE "C:\Documents and Settings\Windows\My Documents\My Music\ABBA\Greatest Hits\08 The Winner Takes It All.mp3" MP3
 TRACK 08 AUDIO
INDEX 01 00:00:00
FILE "C:\Documents and Settings\Windows\My Documents\My Music\ABBA\Greatest Hits\09 Money, Money, Money.mp3" MP3
 TRACK 09 AUDIO
INDEX 01 00:00:00
FILE "C:\Documents and Settings\Windows\My Documents\My Music\ABBA\Greatest Hits\10 S.O.S..mp3" MP3
 TRACK 10 AUDIO
INDEX 01 00:00:00
FILE "C:\Documents and Settings\Windows\My Documents\My Music\ABBA\Greatest Hits\11 Chiquitita.mp3" MP3
 TRACK 11 AUDIO
INDEX 01 00:00:00
FILE "C:\Documents and Settings\Windows\My Documents\My Music\ABBA\Greatest Hits\12 Fernando.mp3" MP3
 TRACK 12 AUDIO
INDEX 01 00:00:00
FILE "C:\Documents and Settings\Windows\My Documents\My Music\ABBA\Greatest Hits\13 Voulez-Vous.mp3" MP3
 TRACK 13 AUDIO
INDEX 01 00:00:00
FILE "C:\Documents and Settings\Windows\My Documents\My Music\ABBA\Greatest Hits\14 Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight).mp3" MP3
 TRACK 14 AUDIO
INDEX 01 00:00:00
FILE "C:\Documents and Settings\Windows\My Documents\My Music\ABBA\Greatest Hits\15 Does Your Mother Know.mp3" MP3
 TRACK 15 AUDIO
INDEX 01 00:00:00
FILE "C:\Documents and Settings\Windows\My Documents\My Music\ABBA\Greatest Hits\16 One Of Us.mp3" MP3
 TRACK 16 AUDIO
INDEX 01 00:00:00
FILE "C:\Documents and Settings\Windows\My Documents\My Music\ABBA\Greatest Hits\17 The Name Of The Game.mp3" MP3
 TRACK 17 AUDIO
INDEX 01 00:00:00
FILE "C:\Documents and Settings\Windows\My Documents\My Music\ABBA\Greatest Hits\18 Thank You For The Music.mp3" MP3
 TRACK 18 AUDIO
INDEX 01 00:00:00
FILE "C:\Documents and Settings\Windows\My Documents\My Music\ABBA\Greatest Hits\19 Waterloo.mp3" MP3
 TRACK 19 AUDIO
INDEX 01 00:00:00

[mmalves]

That CUE file is right, so what's the problem now? By the way if you moved the MP3s out of that folder then it won't work, since that CUE file has full pathnames pointing to the MP3s.

[Jleagle]

[mmalves]

Are you using the latest ImgBurn available? Please make sure you are

 

Install ffdshow and, in the installer, choose to have it decode audio only (i.e. untick decode video formats). After it's installed try burning your CD again

[Jleagle]

I did a simple upgrade to the latest version and it seemed to get rid of the errors. I burnt the CUE but the resulting CD didn't work on my CD player or my PC.

 

I have the K-Lite Codec Pack which includes:

ffdshow audio decoder

ffdshow VFW interface

ffdshow video decoder

[mmalves]

Codec packs are bad because they install a lot of filters you'll never use. Anyway, does that CD play on a standalone DVD player or other players?

[Jleagle]

I just tried on my DVD player and it didn't work.

[dontasciime]

can you not try it in a dedicated cd player or car stereo /ghetto blaster mini hifi thingie

[LIGHTNING UK!]

Does it actually burn + verify ok?

 

Post the full log please.

[Jleagle]

Does it actually burn + verify ok?

 

Post the full log please.

 

I 20:15:58 ImgBurn Version 2.4.2.0 started!

I 20:15:58 Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition (5.1, Build 2600 : Service Pack 3)

I 20:15:58 Total Physical Memory: 1,047,856 KB - Available: 597,384 KB

I 20:15:59 Initialising SPTI...

I 20:15:59 Searching for SCSI / ATAPI devices...

I 20:16:09 Found 1 DVD-ROM, 1 DVD+RW and 1 DVD

[dontasciime]

Test mode yes, try writing something to the disc instead of pretending to

[Guzeppi]

Test mode yes, try writing something to the disc instead of pretending to

 

 

Edited August 26, 2008 by Guzeppi

[Jleagle]

Dont i feel stupid!

 

So, i tried again and the CD went okay and played on my PC but not at all on my CD players. Said "No Disc".

[dontasciime]

you got a dvd player you could try the cd in as well and can you try adding making your own .cue for some mp3 files and make audio cd from those and try

[LIGHTNING UK!]

You might like to try slowing the burn speed down to 16x or 24x too. It'll produce a better burn.

 

Taiyo Yuden seem to make the best CDR's too. I ditched Verbatims (normally great for optical media) in favour of them a while ago and I've never looked back.

[Jleagle]

you got a dvd player you could try the cd in as well and can you try adding making your own .cue for some mp3 files and make audio cd from those and try

 

Just tried the CD in my DVD player and the CD light lit up but it wouldn't play any music.

 

You might like to try slowing the burn speed down to 16x or 24x too. It'll produce a better burn.

 

Taiyo Yuden seem to make the best CDR's too. I ditched Verbatims (normally great for optical media) in favour of them a while ago and I've never looked back.

 

I am using cheap CDs but i didn't think it would stop the CDs from playing altogether, when i used to use iTunes to burn the same CDs they worked perfectly every time.

[LIGHTNING UK!]

If the drive can't read the disc it'll stop them from playing.

 

Drives aren't able to read discs if the disc is just generally crap or burn quality wasn't any good - and that's totally down to the drive/media/firmware.

 

If the PC is able to see it as an audio cd then there's nothing actually wrong with the way it was created.

 

As mentioned in my previous post, try burning at 16x or 24x. That should improve the quality of the burn and maybe your more picky players will be able to initialise the disc properly and play it.

[Jleagle]

Thanks for your help! From now on i will burn everything slower. I have also just bought a new CD player and it seems to play all the CDs that my old one wouldn't, so i wont be having any issue with this anymore.