Posted by BetsyMI on 8/7/06 11:09am
Msg #137441

OT - Burning CD's

Totally off topic but I can't think of anyone else to ask so hopefully some of you techies out there can give me some guidance....

I used my Dell laptop to burn some music CD's for a friend. I have a program on my Dell that says "Burn CD's and DVD's". I clicked on it and the program comes up. I put the Source CD in my drive and click on "make exact copy". The program takes a few minutes as it's gathering the info off the original CD. It seems to be successful. I then, when prompted, take the original CD out and put a new blank Target CD in the drive, and click on OK. Again it seems to be transferring the files to the new CD and when finished tells me it has successfully transferred the files.

When I display the contents of the new CD on my laptop, I can see 12 or 13 files on the new CD.

However when I put the CD in my car or home CD player, it acts like there's no CD there at all and it skips the CD like it's not even there.

Any ideas what I've missed?

Thanks!

Reply by Ernest__CT on 8/7/06 11:21am
Msg #137446

Umm, probably not the answer you'd like.

If you are attempting to copy a commercial music CD (or portions thereof) you are violating copyright law. It's called piracy. Don't do it.

Assuming that you are attempting to copy material to which you have the rights, you should be aware that not all CDs and CD burners are created equal. What may play in a computer may not play in a CD player. It has to do with the format of the files and the metadata.

Sorry!

Reply by John_NorCal on 8/7/06 11:22am
Msg #137448

Did you finalize the disc? If not, it won't play.

Reply by BrendaTx on 8/7/06 11:42am
Msg #137456

Betsy,

I download music legally and burn through Real.com. In my experience, every time I burn a CD it has to be through Real.com. I did try to make a back up copy of my favorite one because I am so rough on them. I found out I could not do a copy to burn like you just described.

According to my own in-house techie child, if I want to do that, I will need a ripper. Rippers are programs which do some kind of magic stuff to make it all work. You rip, then you burn.

Do some research on cd rippers and you'll get the drift of it. I don't even go there. It's cheap enough through real.com to go ahead and download, burn again.

Reply by Korey Humphreys on 8/7/06 1:30pm
Msg #137473

For the sake of this discussion I'll say that I too download music legally **looking side to side with the evil eyes** I use Sonic to burn music and/or copies of CD's. It is simple to use and never gives me a problem. I don't recall if you mentioned what program you use, and if I hit the back button now, I'll loose what I have already typed .... so, what program are you using?

Reply by Mia on 8/7/06 1:41pm
Msg #137478

Was the CD that you were trying to copy from a company that starts with "S"
and ends in "Y" (with two letters in between)? If so, they are known to have
a lot of security features embedded (which would cause it not to copy).

I would try to copy the CD again (so your friend will have an extra copy... when
the little darling children destroy the original;-)) only try using a different CD,
something like Verbatim etc.

Reply by BrendaTx on 8/7/06 2:06pm
Msg #137489

So, let me get this straight...you don't need a ripper? What does the ripper do? Will someone please post a theoretical?

Reply by BrendaTx on 8/7/06 2:11pm
Msg #137491

BTW - a friend of my son's recently paid out $5000+ in a lawsuit. The suit was originally $10000+ She was sued.

I do NOT copy or download or file share illegally. I would highly recommended even if the "bastids" are makin' a killing off of us, they can find open shares and figure out if you are doing some of this.

I think sony's disks (for awhile) were putting some kind of trojan on your computer if you used it to copy their media disks and they had to stop that.

The record companies are getting craftier. Downloading music legally is the way to go and relatively inexpensive.

Reply by Ndwa on 8/7/06 3:32pm
Msg #137510

Re: OT - The ripper

is a decoding software use to break the copyright protected code of a disc in order to burn from it.

Reply by Ndwa on 8/7/06 3:34pm
Msg #137511

What you did was only copied the data of the source disc instead of the direct image.

Reply by Howie35CT on 8/8/06 6:04am
Msg #137578

Use Roxio, which comes standard in most Dell laptop/desktop computers. The problem is that you have downloaded, or your computer recognizes mp3 or above, and your older model radio or car stereo will only recognize .wav files. Using roxio will automatically convert these audio files to a .wav format, allowing you to hear them in just about anything that can play a cd nowadays. The bad news is that .wav files are notoriously HUGE, and you will only be able to fit 10-15 songs onto a 700M cd. This knowledge, of course, assumes that you have legally downloaded music. :oD