Hi, all. I have a problem when burning CD's. I can't seem to successfully burn an audio CD to a CD-R disc.

I can however burn data successfully to a CD-R, I can also burn audio to a CD-R/W disc.

I've tried burning at a slower rate, and with a different program with no success. Any suggestions? Or do I need to

just change brands?

What program are you using?

What error message do you get ?

What program are you using?

What error message do you get ?

Hi, I used RecordNow! and also Media Player 10.

It just suggested I try burning at a slower speed.

I think some software may have problems with certain brands of cd , there are so many out there.

The fact that you can write audio to CD-RW may point to the brand of CD, unless the CD-RW and CD-r are the same brand!

Have you tried the slower speed that the program suggests ?

What speed do the CD-R's support ?

I use NERO 7 , so far no problems ( touches wood..... )

dude - if these are mp3s from the 'internetS' you have to burn as data. it wont matter unless you wantto play them in some players and if you burn the correct files/dirs it still wont matter.

i think the issue is with the naming conventions of the files - mp3s have loads of clutter and characters that are not allowed in proper file names # > / ~ + = etc... also the names may be too long. i dont know why they do this. i have to clean up 99% of my downloads and burn mp3s as data.

as noted can also be: software, buffer issue (but this would affect all burns), other hardware.

i would burn as data and see what you get. if you are not happy - try to understand the sw more and tweaking it out.

it could be the discs but everyone burns princo crap discs and some are coasters but they do burn fine, i dont think its disc. but you can go buy a quality one for b30 and elim that variable ez enuff.

If you use Media player 10 then it will convert any files to what it needs to burn. Never hada problem.

I can't seem to successfully burn an audio CD to a CD-R disc.

Hi, does that mean that you are trying to copy an audio CD to a CD-R? Audio CDs do not contain mp3 files.

I use Nero 7 and it has all of the options depending on what you want to do. It has never failed me yet.

dude - if these are mp3s from the 'internetS' you have to burn as data.

Nero 7 and a lot of CD burning sofware will automatically recode the data into whatever format you choose. Most music downloads are in MP3 format, you can choose to burn this onto a CD to be played by a CD player and it will convert for you. If you want these files in .wav format to be read by a MP3 player ( smaller files = more track capacity) you have these options too.