After mixing down, and burning to a cd...it wont play in my car...whats the dealio.

[BSharp810]

Okay, let me begin by giving you the step by step: I would record the tracks, Mix Down in Reaper ( to the best of my ability...) as a wav file, and burn it to a CD.

The problem is that when i put it in my car CD player, it wont even read the disc.

Can anyone give me some insight on why this may be happening?

Let me state that the CD works on other computers, just not my car. And I know for a fact that the audio isnt clipping.

 

[bouldersoundguy]

Are you burning it as an audio disk or as a CD-ROM data disk? For most audio CD players it has to be burned as an audio disk or it won't play. Computers will have no problem reading a WAV file on a CD-ROM. Most CD burning software can burn it either way but you have to tell it if you want an audio disk rather than a CD-ROM data disk.

 

[mcmetal]

Make sure you've mixed it down as a 16 bit 44.1k wav file.If you still have it at 24 bit 96k it'll play on a computer but most cd players can't read it.The 16 /44.1 is the default for most stand alone cd players.Even if you have a mp3/cd/wma cd player it still probably won't read it.Also some cd players won't read cdr or rewritable cds.My boom box and home stereo will play cdr but won't play a rewritable disc.

 

[BSharp810]

thanks man, that was the answer i was looking for, i have my projects set so that they are always at 24, rather than 16. I will go change that, thanks alot for helping me out.

 

[bouldersoundguy]

thanks man, that was the answer i was looking for, i have my projects set so that they are always at 24, rather than 16. I will go change that, thanks alot for helping me out.

Except that most players still won't play a data disk, regardless of the format of the WAV file. You still need to burn a playable audio disk to listen to your music on many devices. Standard audio CDs are always 16 bit/44.1kHz, and the software will either convert another format or tell you to convert it before importing into a burn project.

 

[ido1957]

Old Windows Media wouldn't play 24 bit either - does in IE9 though.....

 

[offcenter2005]

You really always want to keep your project at 24 bit until you render for disc burning right? That is if your original project was recorded in 24 bit i assume.

 

[mcmetal]

thanks man, that was the answer i was looking for, i have my projects set so that they are always at 24, rather than 16. I will go change that, thanks alot for helping me out.

No problem that's what we're here for.Like Boulder said make sure you burn it as an audio disc.

You really always want to keep your project at 24 bit until you render for disc burning right? That is if your original project was recorded in 24 bit i assume.

That's the suggested route.Keep it at the highest quality you can til it's time to burn it.The dithering process has something to do with it but i'm not real knowledgable on that stuff.

I keep it at 24/96 throughout the recording and mixing process and then save that mix as a 24/96 stereo sound file.Then i'll import that file into my stereo mastering template and apply the so called home mastering to bring up the volume some and put a touch of eq on the mix if it's needed.Then i'll save it at 16/44.1 to burn it to disc.