No sound on CD with Pro Tools LE 8

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Bought my son an MBox 2 that cames with Pro Tools LE 8. After Finally getting it installed and working my son saved a couple of guitar riffs and now wants to burn them to CD. It goes through the process, the whole CD Wizard thing and tells us when it's done, but there's no sound on the CD on playback.

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What procedure did you use to bounce the tracks before burning? What are you playing the CD back on?
 
what i would try

save your file/song, then go into file menu, select bounce to/disk , file type windows media, and bounce, select folder you want to save the newly rendered file into, then just go into your cd burning software and use the wma files you created to convert them to cd track files. i use ahead nero. always way i have done it. if i am in the wrong and theres a superior way, i would love to know as well guys. but that is how i have always done it.
 
RueMorgueRecord said:
save your file/song, then go into file menu, select bounce to/disk , file type windows media, and bounce, select folder you want to save the newly rendered file into, then just go into your cd burning software and use the wma files you created to convert them to cd track files. i use ahead nero. always way i have done it. if i am in the wrong and theres a superior way, i would love to know as well guys. but that is how i have always done it.
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I try to convert the audio the least amount of times possible. I usually the first bounce is the mixdown, and the second bounce is the mastered track.

Instead of bouncing to .wma, why not just bounce to the standard 44.1/16 WAV, and you can burn that directly without having to worry about any degradation of audio, or added digital artifact during the WMA to WAV conversion? Just a thought...
 
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nickg said:
I try to convert the audio the least amount of times possible. I usually the first bounce is the mixdown, and the second bounce is the mastered track.

Instead of bouncing to .wma, why not just bounce to the standard 44.1/16 WAV, and you can burn that directly without having to worry about any degradation of audio, or added digital artifact during the WMA to WAV conversion? Just a thought...
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ok so i am losing by bouncing from PT into a wma, then dragging that into ahead nero when creating a cd then? isnt that the same as wav. i would simply drag the wav's into nero just the same and wouldnt lose any steps. would be same amount for me.
 
RueMorgueRecord said:
ok so i am losing by bouncing from PT into a wma, then dragging that into ahead nero when creating a cd then? isnt that the same as wav. i would simply drag the wav's into nero just the same and wouldnt lose any steps. would be same amount for me.
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My understanding is that WMA is Microsoft's version of Apple's AAC files. They are both compressed (aka "lossy") audio formats, much like MP3's. Formats like WAV and FLAC are loss-less, and uncompressed.

Second to that, not all CD players support playback of .mp3, .aac or .wma files, as they do .wav. But my guess is that you're burning your music as an audio CD from nero, in which case, I'm pretty sure it's converted into a standard audio format CD.
 
just went and tried wav

and it wouldnt burn or even read the wav files. said was unsupported format! i guess i am sticking with pts to wma to cd
 
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