Help with burning

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I did a project in Sonar 5. Used 16 bits and exported as Wav file at 16 bits. Burned to CD with Nero which changed it to cda file on CD so it will play on stereo or boombox. All worked great.
Did a project at 24 bits. Exported as wav file at 16 bits and when I burned it it remained a wav file on the CD. So it won't play on stereo or boom box. Any ideas why that would be. I also tried converting whole project to 16 bits and exporting at 16 bit so it would be more like first project that burned correctly. What am I doing wrong. Thanks for any ideas for my newbie self.
 
It sounds as though you may have accidentally had Nero set to burn a "data" CD instead of a "music" or "audio" CD. Double-check your Nero settings to make sure you select "music" or "audio" CD and also double-check that your WAV files did indeed save as 16-bit and not 24-bit.

HTH,

G.
 
Thanks.
when I check it is 16 bit. With Nero if I use "CD Rom ISO" (which I don't know what that means) I can use multisession which would be good to create a CD. But that saves to wav format for some reason. If I use Audio CD, which is what you suggested, it works, but you can't add on to CD even if I have set to "Not Finalize". Strange, I guess I need to digg into Nero more. Maybe you know of a better way?
 
Albertm said:
Thanks.
when I check it is 16 bit. With Nero if I use "CD Rom ISO" (which I don't know what that means) I can use multisession which would be good to create a CD. But that saves to wav format for some reason. If I use Audio CD, which is what you suggested, it works, but you can't add on to CD even if I have set to "Not Finalize". Strange, I guess I need to digg into Nero more. Maybe you know of a better way?
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As Glen said... you've burned them to a data disc instead of audio. "CD ROM" = Data.

You always need to close a session on an audio disc before you can play the CDA files on a commercial hi-fi system. As far as I'm aware there is no way around this and "digging" more into Nero won't help this particular problem.

I could be wrong with the above statement and somebody will be along shortly to let me know I'm sure...
 
You're right, you can't burn to cda and leave the disc "open" . An ISO file is a disc image like if you wanted to back up a commercial bootable cd (like windows) it copies the cd to your hard drive to be re-burnt later.
If you were trying to leave the disc as a multisession than it won't work but I think if you took the same disc and closed it with nero it will work afterward
Hope this helps, I may have confused myself now :o
 
Thanks guys. I was hoping to burn a song, listen to it on different formats for mix reasons. Remix if I have to and reburn to same CD. Even if I leave "Don't Finalize Disc" in Nero, It won't let me reburn. So bascially I am going through the CD's. Maybe I'll do a few songs and burn all at the same time to check....
I'm surprised there is not a better audio burning program that will give you that freedom, anyone know of one? Thanks again.
 
I'm pretty sure though if you take one of the discs that you didn't finalize, put it in your computer, then finalize it it will work on your stereo after. It will however be closed and you won't be able to add anything else to the disc.
 
The problem with the "open" or "multisession" or "unfinalized" disk or whatever different programs call them is not with the software but with your home cd player. Open discs are formatted in a way that only your computer can play them back and home stereos can't. I've never heard of any software that can make an open disc play on a home stereo
 
That makes sense. I'll just plow through the CD's. Good thing there not big bucks. Just gets messy with CD's lying around. Would be easier to have one mix test CD that you could add to. FYI, seems the music plays whether I do or don't hit "Don't Finalize". It seems to finalize anyway.
 
Albertm said:
That makes sense. I'll just plow through the CD's. Good thing there not big bucks. Just gets messy with CD's lying around. Would be easier to have one mix test CD that you could add to. FYI, seems the music plays whether I do or don't hit "Don't Finalize". It seems to finalize anyway.
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I frequently just burn one track just for the purpose of checking a mix on my home system. Once I've used it I chuck it away... seems a waste but I don't think there's any way around this unless you consider hooking up your PC to the line in of your home system (... hmmmmm.... why haven't I thought of that before...)
 
Better than filling up a land fill with useless optical drink coasters, just use almost any DVD player built in the last 2-3 years to play them back. For $39 bucks you can buy a DVD player that'll hook up to your home stereo that will play audio CDs, CD-Rs and (often) CD-rewritables in both music and data format, often finalized or not. Oh, and you can play DVDs too :)

G.
 
Albertm said:
I'm surprised there is not a better audio burning program that will give you that freedom, anyone know of one? Thanks again.
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Sounds like you need a CD-RW, I belive most players out there since 2001 can handle them, right? And anways, what are CD's, 2 cents?
 
SouthSIDE Glen said:
Better than filling up a land fill with useless optical drink coasters, just use almost any DVD player built in the last 2-3 years to play them back. For $39 bucks you can buy a DVD player that'll hook up to your home stereo that will play audio CDs, CD-Rs and (often) CD-rewritables in both music and data format, often finalized or not. Oh, and you can play DVDs too :)

G.
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Great idea... I'll have to check that out on my cheapo DVD player :D
 
But using the DVD doesn't solve the finalize of CD question. Seems the CD finalizes anyway and you have to send to land fill as Southside said. Good thing there just 2 cents. Thought I didnt try CD-RW. But maybe that can get noisy after a few mix tests???????
 
Albertm said:
But using the DVD doesn't solve the finalize of CD question. Seems the CD finalizes anyway and you have to send to land fill as Southside said. Good thing there just 2 cents. Thought I didnt try CD-RW. But maybe that can get noisy after a few mix tests???????
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An audio CD will "finalize", but you can create an open data CD with the final mixdown WAV files on it that *will* play on most modern DVD players.

The alternative, like you say is to use CD-RW. I'm not sure how compatable many DVD players are with CD-RW. Noise should not be an issue with CD-RW (it's not like tape that gets noiser upon re-use), however, compatability can be. Some computers don't even like CD-RWs.

Blank CDs may be cheap, but garbage is not. These things will probably still be in that land fill or garbage dump long after your children have died a natural death, and when they do decompose, they decompose into materials that are not exactly approved by mother nature.

G.
 
Oh, I see what you mean. I'll try that. Your right, don't want to make a bigger chemical mess than is already out there. I imagine the growing of IPOD users will help cut that mess down to nothing also.
 
Synkrotron said:
... I don't think there's any way around this unless you consider hooking up your PC to the line in of your home system (... hmmmmm.... why haven't I thought of that before...)
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I do that with my laptop, connect it to my stereo. Once I have a song mixed and converted from analog to a digital wav file (on the hard drive), I just play it with Windows Media Player to see how it sounds through the stereo in my living room. That way I can hear the digital mix before I start burning CDs.

I'm a true "home recorder", so this may be below all the professionals that frequent this page. But it works. Why waste CDs?

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