Struggling to burn CD for my tinnitus

FaceTurnedAway

As you're familiar with, the options are "burn an audio CD" or "burn files to disc" using windows explorer. After selecting the mp3 file, I click "start burn" and it displays "burning" with the % that's been burned. After a few minutes, the CD pops out, but when I put it back in, it's blank again! WTF! I've tried it on another PC too and the same happens! It's like as if it's pretending to burn a CD!

Funnily, I burned a CD successfully the other night, but in the morning it seemed to be blank again!

The CD brand is verbatim, & it also says "2CD-R 52x" on it. The below poster seemed to have the same question, which didn't get answered.

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055116751

Thank you

Digital Solitude

Have you tried using a program to burn to the CD? Not just Windows own one?

Does Windows Media Player still exist? Never had any hassle using it for files.

Atlantic Dawn

Is the CD showing as blank after the burn when you insert it?
When you look at the burn side of the CD does it look like data has been burned on it?
Have you tried other mp3 files to burn on a CD?
Is the file particularly large in size?
How long in minutes it the mp3 file?

FaceTurnedAway

Atlantic Dawn wrote: »

Is the CD showing as blank after the burn when you insert it?

yes

Atlantic Dawn wrote: »

Is the file particularly large in size?

yes, but it fits. It's an hr long track

Atlantic Dawn wrote: »

Have you tried other mp3 files to burn on a CD?

I'm also buring a short 1 minute file along with it.

Atlantic Dawn wrote: »

When you look at the burn side of the CD does it look like data has been burned on it?

you can actually tell!?

FanadMan

FaceTurnedAway wrote: »

you can actually tell!?

If you hold it up at an angle to the light and compare it to a real blank cd, you'll notice the difference in tracks.

Suckit

Try burning it with Imgburn

http://www.imgburn.com/

FaceTurnedAway

FanadMan wrote: »

If you hold it up at an angle to the light and compare it to a real blank cd, you'll notice the difference in tracks.

Well it doesn't play anything in a CD player!

AllForIt

Been years since I burned a CD on Windows using the in-built system rather than a 3rd party software but if memory serves somewhere along the process you have to select a tick box that says something like 'actually write these files to disk', cause if you don't it will go through some kind of faux writing process where nothing is actually written. So go though the process again and see if you can find this option.

And yes you can see the files written to disk by looking at it. On a new disk the files will be written from the center outwards and this process of writing with the laser will slightly discolor the original colour of the blank disk. So you will be able to see a contrast in color between the parts of the disk that are written too vs the blank part.

FaceTurnedAway

Just downloaded CDBurnerXP and it's the same story. Must be a curse!

FaceTurnedAway

AllForIt wrote: »

if memory serves somewhere along the process you have to select a tick box that says something like 'actually write these files to disk', cause if you don't it will go through some kind of faux writing process where nothing is actually written

I wonder who thought of that idea!

FaceTurnedAway

This time I ticked a box to have "disc data verified" and it said an error occured at the last moment

FaceTurnedAway

Is there business that offers this service? that I can just give them the files on USB?

FanadMan

FaceTurnedAway wrote: »

Is there business that offers this service? that I can just give them the files on USB?

If the mp3 is copyrighted then most reputable places wouldn't touch it.

Are you trying to burn an mp3 to play in a CD player? Does the CD player actually recognise mp3 files?

mordeith

Are both files mp3 format?

ED E

FaceTurnedAway wrote: »

Well it doesn't play anything in a CD player!

This is the key.

Some CD players can handle MP3-CDs, others cannot. If you put an MP3CD into the latter it appears blank to it.

- Audio CDs have a maximum length of 74 minutes due to the uncompressed wave file format.
- The compressed format allows MP3 CDs to hold 4 to 12 hours of audio files (depending on the bitrate--a large bitrate such as 320 kbps takes up more space than a lower bitrate such as 128 kbps).

If you author the disk with Windows Media Player it should create an audio CD for you.

FaceTurnedAway

FanadMan wrote: »

Does the CD player actually recognise mp3 files?

Well the first CD player I try it with is the laptop that I'd have jut used to burn it!

As mentioned, the laptop then acts as if it's blank!

FaceTurnedAway

mordeith wrote: »

Are both files mp3 format?

They weren't 1st time, but after correcting that, it still didn't work!

mordeith

FaceTurnedAway wrote: »

They weren't 1st time, but after correcting that, it still didn't work!

https://support.microsoft.com/en-ie/help/15062/windows-burn-rip-cds

Suckit

Try Audacity
You can edit/merge your sound files into one track and change the overall size etc.
You can also burn it to CD then when you are ready. It is very easy to use.

yoyo

If the burning software has an option to "Finalize CD", make sure that is checked. Some players will have difficulty without that option checked. Some older players I think work better with Audio CD-R discs, and may not accept CD-R ones. Make sure to choose the Audio CD and not MP3 CD option, as Audio CD option will convert songs to suitable audio format which standard CD players understand,

Nick

Skerries

you will have Windows Media Player on your PC so use the following guide to do it

https://www.lifewire.com/how-to-burn-audio-cd-with-windows-media-player-11-2438904