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Thread ID: 28973	2003-01-06 22:28:00	CD RW burn - noise on music CDs	stuy (2929)	Press F1

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111516	2003-01-06 22:28:00	Needing some help to determine if my CD burner is at fault here. The problem is that often when I burn music CDs I get either a random collection of pops and similar scattered through tracks (not a lot but enough to be too annoying to listen to), or, recently, a scratchy repetitive noise underneath the music (he repetitiveness might be at the speed of the CD rotation?), generally in the final tracks of a disk. Sometimes this progresses to jumpy and then unplayable near the end of the disk. These two noises may or may not be related - they certainly don't appear to have anything in common. Its not that consistent - sometimes I get a playable disk, sometimes a horrible one. I use Ricoh 40x CDR media (nero sees them as max 32x), usually burnt at 24x Generally I burn with very little else running. I mainly burn mp3's - initially thought these might have been ripped poorly, but have done the mp3 - wav conversion manually and they sound fine played from the computer, but same problem when burnt. Also get the same problem using my own wavs. Needless to say, the music all sounds fine when played on the computer. Hardware - - LG 48 16 48 burner (got a good review on one of the CD burner review sites) - AMD 1200 256M ram 40G and 20 G Seagate drives (at least 2.5G of space on C drive) - Matrox G200 video card (yeah, yeah - it does the job) - 300W power supply Software: - win 98SE - Nero (have tried 5.5.x and a newer version)	stuy (2929)
111517	2003-01-06 23:21:00	Nero mention this in their help file - FAQ. Try slower burn speed - some people say, that Audio should be burnt at 1X Bye	Peter H (220)
111518	2003-01-07 00:30:00	I have found a similar problem even though I burn them as slow as possible. Some of my cd's are well used and I reckon this is part of the problem. I think that the error correction process is causing a problem when writing. I do not have a solution although I was going to try a "proper" cd player as my source.	Dolby Digital (160)
111519	2003-01-07 02:12:00	if you are making your own cd's from mp3's take you ammount down to around 72 minutes on a 80 min cd as nero will sometime cruch the mp3's to fit them on your cd if you are just copying cd-cd burn at 4 speed i find that is best its not quick but you get a better end result well that is what i have found anyway	phylip (1886)
111520	2003-01-07 04:03:00	I think I've had the problem with CDs under 70 mins too, but I'll try a burn, keeping them under 72 minutes - some of the burning programs are too smart for their own good - Nero seems to default to "normalise tracks" and I've found that can introduce noise too. On another note, Nero also doesn't appear to be able to remember the setup if you change track spacings from the default 2 seconds - next time you open that saved burn session, the track spacings are back at default.	stuy (2929)
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