CD Burning Issues

[Stephen]

When I try to burn CD's the CD's end up with this static junk all through the music. I had been using Nero, but I dropped that and tried a program called. Burnaware. Same issue. It burns the CD like normal, but the songs are all screwed up.


I run Windows Vista on a Compaq Presario PC. I use more expensive CD-R CDs made by Sony. (I know cheapies can cause issues) I have run a cleaner through the drive already, it's a CD-DVD-Lightscribe burner. I really don't know what else to do at this point. Any suggestions?

[jaems-kun]

what kind of music files are you burning? Sounds like bad source files, or bad conversions. Hard to say.

[Stephen]

Burning MP3's on to a CD that I can play in regular CD players. I downloaded a new burning program and it still does it. I am wondering if maybe using system restore and going back to a month or so ago when it worked might be a good idea.

[Shao Feng-Li]

What about using iTunes or WMP to burn? That's about all I use and never have problems.

I also think it might be a security thing on the CDs. Screws up the music so you won't want to copy it. Just a thought.

[Stephen]

Hmm. I tried putting that verson of Nero I had used back in. Now it's working again. It must have been some security thing doing it. I also found a spot where Nero lists how much memory it can use. I bumped that up, maybe that helped.

[Stephen]

Ok. Not that anyone was seriously posting on this thread (It's cool, the issue is weird I know) But I figured things out. I guess Compaq puts cheap CD burners in there computers. Before my last computer died, I had bought an expensive Sony CD burner. So I dug that out, and put it in the new computer...no more issues. So I guess its the burner, and nothing that Nero did. >.<

[Mithrandir]

Woah. That's weird. I haven't heard of something like that. I would have figured it was a messed up driver - maybe an install/uninstall of Nero mucked with the driver database. Glad it's working, though!