Cd playback
 

I am burning CD's off Nero, and it is saying that it is successfully completed, although it will not play on another music device. ie. our stereo, or portable player. Although, we can play back the CD on WMP? Can anyone help me?

Thanks
Lynda

make sure you are creating an audio CD

I am doing all the right things... I used to use Kaaza a few years ago, and haven't done any CD's since, so just signed up for Limewire, which is great, but only this one problem
Lynda

Limewire I know is not my problem, I am wondering if it has to do with downloading M3P's, does it automatically change on the CD , like does Nero change it? Am I making any sense?

Nero Burning doesn't auto convert mp3 to standard audio/ cda, etc. Plenty of Freeware available to change format types.
Nero Express 6, & above, 'Music', will give you a few choices of format styles to choose from, it may helps.

Would anyone know where I could find the freeware to download to help me? Thank you!!!!:confused:

audio or data disk? i'm confused.
 

Hi all. I've been sitting here for hours researching various forums trying to learn about burning music to a cd, as well as where to post this question/situation.

I love my wmp. I'm used to the layout. I can burn music through wmp, musicmatch jukebox, and i also have ahead nero, though have not used that in quite a while.

I dwnloaded music from LW, made music specific playlists in LW, then couldn't open or find them in the LW playlist. The titles were there when i pressed "open...", but nothing was in them. I added to the playlists a few times and probably renamed them. I did find the playlists days later in my limewire file, listed with the titles i had given the seperate playlists. (I did go to the shared folder by the way, but didn't find them there)

Anyway, when i thought i'd lost ALL MY HARD WORK, i decided to move them (or maybe i copied them - can't remember) to my wmp. I think i clicked "add to now playing list" or something like that and found they went into my media player library. Before doing this i don't think they'd play with media player, i guess because they have the jukebox icon. From there i burnt the playlist to a cd - don't know what kind other than to say i only had 78 min of room. I believe i just pressed the "burn" button.

The songs were all there, but when playing on my old stereo, there was much crackling going on. My son showed me how he burnt music using jukebox. His music sounded just fine on the old stereo, so i re-did mine his way. Again, the songs were all there, and i got excited when they sounded great, until about the middle of the cd, when the crackling came back, only worse than the first cd. I am only using R's, not RW's. Everything played clear when i used my cd walkman though, i'm glad for that.

Sorry, i'm rambling....THE REASON I POSTED HERE......When researching forums, it seems i got two different suggestions in terms of making or burning a music disk. One says do DATA ONLY, and you say to CREATE an AUDIO CD. I'm not computer savvy, not up with all the jargon either. What is the difference? Which one is the right one to get more than 78 min on one disk? I read somewhere that it's possible to get 12 hours on one disk? ANYONE KNOW HOW?

To whoever reads this, might i just say thanks for taking the time. It's hard when you don't know what you're doing, but it's great to know that someone out there cares.

Nero is perfect to burn audio cd's from your Mp3's
And i Think WMP and Musicmatch can do it as well alltough I have no experience with those last two.

The key to avoid Clicks and pops is to not set your burning speed to max, but use a slower burning speed, halfway is usually fine.

You allso might want to read this burning info.

A normal 700 Mb blank CD.r can only hold 80 mins of audio CD music.
If you make a data CD with Mp3's on it (Mp3 disc in NERO), then you can have a lot more music on your CD becouse Mp3's are basicly compressed wav files.
Lets assume an average Mp3 file is about 4Mb and has 3 mins playing time, that works out you can put 700Mb : 4Mb = 175 Files on a CD.
175 X 3 minutes = 525 Min playing time = 8hours and 45min .
Offcourse this DATA CD is not playable on a regular CD player.

Thanks RaaF
 

What version of Nero is that picture from that you added? I have Ahead Nero or Nero Express or Nero 5.5. It doesn't look like yours. Also, in terms of the burning speed, if I go to 'Ahead Nero', then 'Toolkit" is it CD speed or drive speed i need to "slow down"?

How do you guys insert those pictures into these forums? I'm sure you know which nero i'm talking about, but it would be nice to show you a pic.

So making an audio cd is your answer, thanks. I tried doing it from nero, but when i clicked "add", i couldn't locate my saved limewire playlists &/or they wouldn't open. What is the right way to do this so it works?

whatnow,

My version of Nero is 6.1.3.6

But it seems your version can convert Mp3 to Audio CD as well.
First of all, you got to know where your MP3 files (songs) are stored.
Normally this would be under:
C:\Documents and Settings\"your account name"\Shared
If it is not there, you have specified an other directory during Limewire install, and you should know where to find it.
If you can't remember, use the Limewire Library's Explore button to find it on your hard drive.
Or use the Windows search and search for a file you know is in your shared folder.

I have taken some screenshots of Nero burning rom.


After startup of Nero:

1 Choose Audio CD
2 Click New
3 Go to your Limewire shared map
4 Drag the songs you want to burn to the screen on the
Left (5)
5 your CD compilation (pay atention to the time slider at the bottom of your screen)
6 Click BURN (the match)
>>The burn Compilation screen pops up<<
7 Adjust the write speed
8 Click BURN

Hope this helps.

http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c8...torialnrs2.jpg

Thanks RaaF
 

I managed to do a burn using my version of Nero. I even made a cover for my new music cd. YOu can't do that in Musicmatch.

I'm in the process of upgrading to Nero 7. I hope this is free. I also hope i don't get too confused as to how to use it. I just get used to using one version, then they come out with another one and mess with my head. It's all good though.

I use Sonic RecordNow and when I burn a CD it converts the mp3's into CD audio files. Now I'm in the process of looking for a program that converts CD audio files back into mp3's!:D

CDex would be a excellent choice.
And it gets even better when you use a newer
LAME Mp3 encoder

But DON'T convert a Audio CD that was made of Mp3's back to Mp3.
You'll get horrible quality Mp3's.

Hi CS. iTunes converts Audio CD to mp3 fine for me:)

I should give these a try. Thanks for suggesting them!;)

Raaf, in response to my jan 1 post...
 

I'd mentioned i was downloading a new version of nero (7). After it was all done, it said it was only a trial version. I assume this is normal????? (nothing in life is free, right).

If i end up liking it, where do i go to get the full version? Does anyone know how much it costs compared to Nero 6 for eg?

In terms of liking it...i've found one thing i dislike so far. I went to burn a cd (which i have yet to listen to to make sure it worked), i wanted to make a cover after...like i always did in nero express. It was so great there...i didn't have to enter all the song #'s, names, artist, etc. It just appeared. WHY DIDN'T THIS HAPPEN IN NERO 7? (in case this makes a difference, i pulled the songs from the limewire media player or shared file.) Before i hit burn, all the songs were listed in front of me, and i even edited them to look the way i wanted. Where did it go and why didn't it pop up automatically?

Re: Raaf, in response to my jan 1 post...
 

http://www.nero.com/eng/Nero_7_Premium_InfoPage.html

The place for all your Nero upgrading and buying questions.

But if you had a good working version of Nero, why upgrade ?

mp3 Files Nero Express Multi-session CDs Playlists
 

I think I am having a similar problem...I'm not sure it's the same as yours...but it's worth noting.
I am trying to make a CD of .mp3 files (using Nero Express).
First, I converted the ".cda" files from my "conventional" CDs. to .mp3 format. Nero Express (NE) has an "Convert Audio CDs to Audio Files" tool for this conversion.
(The tool also allows you to convert the .cda files to .wma, for use with Windows Media Player. )
Both .mp3 and .wma provide significant compression of the size of the .cda music files. For example, you may put a total of about 20 .cda tracks onto one CD; but alternatively, you might fit 200 tracks of mp3-compressed music onto one CD.

Problem of Unreadable CDs

1- An "old-style" CD player will play ONLY .cda files; but, there are newer CD players that ALSO play .mp3 & .wma files.
Check the file extensions for the music files on your computer.
If the files on your computer are in .mp3 or .wma (compressed) formats, they cannot play on an old-style CD player; but, they COULD play on a newer one.

2- Also, there seems to be a "catch" when burning compressed files onto a CD using Nero Express: NE can make a "multi-session" CD!
Multi-session CDs are good because you can continue to add files after the first group is burned; i.e., you can burn a second group, later, onto the original multi-session CD!
But, they are also bad because the CD player will not be able to play ANY of the compressed files on a multi-session CD. There seems to be no way to "Close" (or Finalize) a multi-session CD; you can only use them for compiling the files you want to later burn to another (non-multi-session) CD.
Under the "More" button on the Make Mp3 CD tool, it allows you to check a "Finalize" box. If you want to play the CD, make sure this box is checked! (If you do want to make a multi-session CD, leave the box unchecked).
I have found that the compressed music files on a CLOSED CD WILL play on the .mp3 & .wma compatible CD player .

Difficulty with Making mp3 "Playlists"

I believe I have encountered a second "catch". Nero Express (or Windows) seems to reorganize the .mp3 tracks in alphabetical order by Filename, and there seems to be no feature for re-arranging the compressed files into a particular order (playlist) for burning.
I have been setting the "File Name Creation Method" box in the "Audio CD to Audio Files" Conversion Tool to arrange my .mp3 files by Track #. I set the File Naming Creation Method box to "User Defined", then add "%N" before "%F". This automatically adds the track # before the .cda file title. Nero Express then lets me sort by file name to get the mp3 files in order of Track #.

This seems like a poor, inflexible work-around!
Is there a better way?
Any suggestions?