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kher
New member
I have done an audio recording using Sound Forge 7.0 and have it saved in Sound Forge Project File. I have it burned on a CD but I can't play it on a regular CD player. How should I go about it? Thanks
apl
Stand Up Comity
Your Sound Forge should create a file that ends in .wav that is your song. You probably have a CD burning software like Nero or CD Creator.
Start your CD burning software. Tell it you want to create an AUDIO CD. It should have a list for you to tell it what you want on the CD. Put your .wav file on the list and burn.
If you put a .wav file on a DATA CD it will not play in a CD player, but it will play on a computer.
If Sound Forge is calling it an Audio CD, it should work.
Check the CD you made with Sound Forge. Are the files on the CD .wav or .cda ?
If they are .cda you did create an audio CD.
If it plays on your computer then there may be a problem with your CD player reading CD-Rs.
Start your CD burning software. Tell it you want to create an AUDIO CD. It should have a list for you to tell it what you want on the CD. Put your .wav file on the list and burn.
If you put a .wav file on a DATA CD it will not play in a CD player, but it will play on a computer.
If Sound Forge is calling it an Audio CD, it should work.
Check the CD you made with Sound Forge. Are the files on the CD .wav or .cda ?
If they are .cda you did create an audio CD.
If it plays on your computer then there may be a problem with your CD player reading CD-Rs.
thane1200
Medicated Member
Direct burn?
A while ago I had problems "direct burning" from Sound Forge. I don't know if you are doing this or transferring recording to another burning program, but I would advise you to make sure you are taking a .WAV file and burnig it to an AUDIO CD format. Also check what kind of disks you are using, when burning from a computer (as I understand it) you should be using DATA Recordable CDs, not MUSIC Recordables.....those are for stand-alone CD Recorders.
A while ago I had problems "direct burning" from Sound Forge. I don't know if you are doing this or transferring recording to another burning program, but I would advise you to make sure you are taking a .WAV file and burnig it to an AUDIO CD format. Also check what kind of disks you are using, when burning from a computer (as I understand it) you should be using DATA Recordable CDs, not MUSIC Recordables.....those are for stand-alone CD Recorders.
apl
Stand Up Comity
thane1200 said:
I don't believe there's an actual difference between these besides the label.
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glimmer_doll
New member
sounds like you just saved the sound forge data file to the cd....at least, that's what it sounds like from the description you gave...
you need to render the project to a .wav file and burn that as an audio cd.
you need to render the project to a .wav file and burn that as an audio cd.
thane1200
Medicated Member
apl said:
I know for a fact that DATA cds will not work on SONY stand-alone (home stereo style) recorders.
apl
Stand Up Comity
thane1200 said:
Yeah, there are some strange exceptions. Is it that the Sony won't read an 80 minute CD?
gtrman_66
New member
apl said:
No, the consumer audio recorders require a disc that is made for them, "for consumer" cds or something like that. I believe there is a little speck of code on them that tells the machine a copyright royalty fee of some sort has been paid for that disc.
I had one of the earliest Phillips consumer burners, CDR 870 I think it was. You could load the "consumer audio" disc in the machine and wait for it to identify the disc, then pull the drawer out with your hand and swap it for a regular cdr. The machine had no clue what it was burning on then. they fixed the "problem" in the next model by putting a microswitch on the cd drawer.
Rokket
Trailing Behind Again
Hey, this guy has asked this question in two different threads... I hope he got his answer, considering both of them are giving him the same answers... 
thane1200
Medicated Member
Alas................I too have double posted. Please forgive me.
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kher
New member
I have tried all of your suggestions from both threads, yet it is still not working. Probably it's my CD player. I will try it on other CD players. Anyway thank you all for your info and knowledge.
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Birdhouse
New member
Check the bit rate. Easiest mistake to make when burning CD's. 16 bit NOT 24. Burn one at 24 bit and it won't play.
CDR's are all the same as far as I have determined by buying some DATA CDR's and burning CD's on them with a junk 3rd part burner AND with an HP 9300 series burner. I haven't found a CDR that DOESN'T work yet.
I say watch out for those $1 each "Music CD" packs. It's a bullshit riopoff in my opinion.
CDR's are all the same as far as I have determined by buying some DATA CDR's and burning CD's on them with a junk 3rd part burner AND with an HP 9300 series burner. I haven't found a CDR that DOESN'T work yet.
I say watch out for those $1 each "Music CD" packs. It's a bullshit riopoff in my opinion.
SPINSTERWUN
Active member
kher, give us a detailed "step-by-step" of your process, from the beginning to the ending....
It seems to me that you are saving the file in the wrong format, saving the file with the wrong bit-depth, you are burning the wrong file, and/or your CD player doesn't play CD-R's.
Those three (3) possibilites have been stated previously by some of our members here at HR.COM.
Therefore, it is necessary to problem solve this situation, one step at a time.
Collectively, we will be able to solve your dilema.
It seems to me that you are saving the file in the wrong format, saving the file with the wrong bit-depth, you are burning the wrong file, and/or your CD player doesn't play CD-R's.
Those three (3) possibilites have been stated previously by some of our members here at HR.COM.
Therefore, it is necessary to problem solve this situation, one step at a time.
Collectively, we will be able to solve your dilema.
Blue Bear Sound
New member
Sorry - that's WORD SIZE or BIT DEPTH, not "bit rate"......Birdhouse said:
Bit rate only applies to lossy compression formats such as MPEG and MP3s and describes the transfer rate of bits per second.
Wordsize is a component of the digital recording format and is completely unrelated to bitrate.
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kher
New member
How it all started
I did audio recording using Sound Forge and saved it as Sound Forge Project File(*frg) and I burnt it using Sound Forge's Burn Track-at-Once-Audio CD. I can play it on my computer without any hitch. But I can't play it on my CD player. Next I was advised in this forum to convert my recording into .wav and also changed it to 16 bit. I was also advised to burn my recording using separate burner instead of using from Sound Forge. So I copied my orignal recording that was saved in Sound Forge Project File (*frg) to a new page and saved it to Scott Studios(.wav) and I also tried to save it in Wave (Microsoft) (.wav) which are from Sound Forge. I burned them on both CD-RW and also CD-R as well. Still I can't play all the burned CDs on my CD player. I have't try them on other CD players yet.
I did audio recording using Sound Forge and saved it as Sound Forge Project File(*frg) and I burnt it using Sound Forge's Burn Track-at-Once-Audio CD. I can play it on my computer without any hitch. But I can't play it on my CD player. Next I was advised in this forum to convert my recording into .wav and also changed it to 16 bit. I was also advised to burn my recording using separate burner instead of using from Sound Forge. So I copied my orignal recording that was saved in Sound Forge Project File (*frg) to a new page and saved it to Scott Studios(.wav) and I also tried to save it in Wave (Microsoft) (.wav) which are from Sound Forge. I burned them on both CD-RW and also CD-R as well. Still I can't play all the burned CDs on my CD player. I have't try them on other CD players yet.
apl
Stand Up Comity
kher said:
Hey kher.
A CD to play on a CD player must have .cda type files on it.
A regular CD player WILL NOT PLAY .wav files.
Hope this helps.
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Birdhouse
New member
Blue Bear Sound said:
Hey I learned somethin!!! lol thanks.
altiris
New member
By the way how old is your cd player. I cant play the cds i burn on my older dvd player. I know if your using cheap CDRs they will not play very well with older electronics. Newer components are more forgiving of cheap CDR's
SPINSTERWUN
Active member
kher said:
Since we are trying to problem solve the situation, it will be necessary for you to reference the CD on another CD palyer.
You have already used a different program to burn the CD.
You have converted the SF file to WAV.
You have made sure that the WAV. file was converted to a CDA. file once it was burned.
You made sure that the file was 16 bit.
So...... the next thing to do is to reference the CD on a newer CD player (because as previously stated, older CD players can't/don't read CD-R).
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Grunk
New member
CDRs
In some cd burning softwarwe you have to do what is called closing or some other name to get the cd to play on other system's. In my cd burner using soundforge I go to tools then add file, after that I go back to tools in the menu and choose close disk , in order that the CDR can play on other systems'??????
In some cd burning softwarwe you have to do what is called closing or some other name to get the cd to play on other system's. In my cd burner using soundforge I go to tools then add file, after that I go back to tools in the menu and choose close disk , in order that the CDR can play on other systems'??????