problem with my CD burner

[notbradsohner]

I have one of those old phillips standalone cd recorders, which I mix down to. Anyone familiar?

anyway, while I am recording everything works fine, clock ticks, etc, but when I am done, it says that there is 79 minutes and 59 seconds of stuff on the cd, so I can not "finalize" it. Any ideas, bad disc brand mabye?

 

[Dracon]

I have one of those old phillips standalone cd recorders, which I mix down to. Anyone familiar?

anyway, while I am recording everything works fine, clock ticks, etc, but when I am done, it says that there is 79 minutes and 59 seconds of stuff on the cd, so I can not "finalize" it. Any ideas, bad disc brand mabye?

I'm assuming this happened with only one CD burn?
What version of Roxio are you using? I guess I should've asked what software of CD-burning are you using. I used to used the old Roxio version (a about three years ago), and it would give me a hard time when I was 'burning' and doing something else at the same time.
The CD burning software would get 'confused' and either didn't know what it had done so it would see the burned CD as empty or as full when it was empty.

The moral of the story! If you have old software, upgrade get a newer software or something. The other thing to do, is (if you have space) save the image of the 'burn' to the Hard Drive. That way you have a sudo 'back-up' copy in-case the burn fails. Hope that helps.

 

[ez_willis]

I'm assuming this happened with only one CD burn?
What version of Roxio are you using? I guess I should've asked what software of CD-burning are you using. I used to used the old Roxio version (a about three years ago), and it would give me a hard time when I was 'burning' and doing something else at the same time.
The CD burning software would get 'confused' and either didn't know what it had done so it would see the burned CD as empty or as full when it was empty.

The moral of the story! If you have old software, upgrade get a newer software or something. The other thing to do, is (if you have space) save the image of the 'burn' to the Hard Drive. That way you have a sudo 'back-up' copy in-case the burn fails. Hope that helps.

I think he has a stand-alone cd burner, looks like a stereo component.

Is it a cdr770?

 

[Dracon]

When he said stand alone, I thought he meant one of the external CD Burners. I don't know a thing about stand alone CD Burners.

 

[DJL]

I have one of those old phillips standalone cd recorders, which I mix down to. Anyone familiar?

anyway, while I am recording everything works fine, clock ticks, etc, but when I am done, it says that there is 79 minutes and 59 seconds of stuff on the cd, so I can not "finalize" it. Any ideas, bad disc brand mabye?

Maybe the TOC was lost... maybe a pwr surge or something... but, most likely just a bad disc. Also... FYI, you may want to clean your CD lazer lens if you haven't done so recently.