MP3's won't write to CD?

segadreamcast

Argh, my mp3's (both the ones I bought via itunes and the ones I converted myself from my own cd's) won't write to CD's suddenly! They say I don't have the necessary codec to convert them, and I keep getting the following error in WMP:

C00D1199

Any ideas folks? I need to be able to make CD playlists on the fly as part of my job, and this really ****ed me over tonight. I'm pretty f*cking furious, considering I paid for these songs and they are my property...

P.S. Just a footnote, I have wrote many of these to CD before - though never more than once. And this is a uniform problem, across every MP3 I own... so I'm presuming it's nothing really to do with DRM.

White Rabbit

I-Tunes?

If so then they're AAC files not MP3 and if your bought them online then they're DRM'ed up the Khyber.

Google for convertion solutions but be aware that they may be illegal as you are breaking the licence agreement.

No you do not own the music, you simply bought the right to listen to it in the form it was supplied. Bend over and take it.

segadreamcast

Not all - infact, most aren't. As I said, many of them were ripped from CD's using an mp3 extractor and aren't DRM'd at all... so I'm really at a loss as to what's causing this?

Smurfpiss

this is just speculation and i'm probably wrong but i know if you burn different video files to dvd you get nasty codec problems. could it be that you are burning a combo of mp3 and AAC?
like i say it might not matter but then again it might.

sceptre

C00D1199 is the generic WMP code that basically means "we can't play the file and we haven't got much of a bull's-ass notion why". Wonderfully useful. It usually means that WMP thinks it doesn't have the codec to play the file, which doesn't tell you any more than you already know. Doubly useful when you're not trying to play the file in the first place.

So do they play in windowsmedia?

ChRoMe

NoelRock wrote:

Any ideas folks? I need to be able to make CD playlists on the fly as part of my job, and this really ****ed me over tonight. I'm pretty f*cking furious, considering I paid for these songs and they are my property...

Two points.

1. You do not own the songs you got off itunes. You have paid a licence fee to use the songs. Thats the legal work around so they can still use DRM. Oh and just to add you paid for those songs to get a personal licence for them. So the fact you are creating cd's for what I presume is for someone else or maybe some type of public performance means you are breaking the agreement.

2. If creating cd playlists on the fly are part of your job you should really really investigate using a different piece of software other than that piece of crap WMP. It will save you time (and hair!) in the long run

segadreamcast

Smurfpiss wrote:

this is just speculation and i'm probably wrong but i know if you burn different video files to dvd you get nasty codec problems. could it be that you are burning a combo of mp3 and AAC?
like i say it might not matter but then again it might.

Hm. This was how the problem first arose indeed. I was trying to burn a combination of one aac file and nine mp3's. You might be on the right track there. Subsequently, for my next 20+ attempts though, I dropped the aac as - much like you - I presumed there might've been some conflict.

Sceptre - heh, in all my frustration, I never actually had time to play a track. In fact, I didn't even think of playing a track. Peculiarly enough, since I've started playing them, most of the tracks are now converting and seem to be ready to burn - though one or two are still posing mysterious problems.

ChRoMe: Technically, you're right on both points. However, most (all but one) of these songs are my own, just copied from CD's and put on custom CD's to make my day easier.

On the second point, yeah, I really should. I need to clean this PC up badly.

zilog_jones

Yeah what chrome said - just don't use WMP - it's a waste of space! I'd use Nero for burning audio CDs myself, but if you don't have that (it ain't free) I think iTunes has some similar function.

segadreamcast

zilog_jones wrote:

Yeah what chrome said - just don't use WMP - it's a waste of space! I'd use Nero for burning audio CDs myself, but if you don't have that (it ain't free) I think iTunes has some similar function.

Howdy,

Yeah I do have Nero...for some reason I never set it to default and, generally, I tend to forget about it until problems start occuring. Gonna give it a bash now.

Thanks for all the help everybody - I'll let you know how it goes.