Hello, I may die of old age by the time I figure this out. Here's the deal: I can burn data and audio CD's from files on my hard drive with no problem. Now I'd like to copy an audio CD which has about 43 minutes of contiguous audio over 10 tracks, ie: there is no silence between tracks. I could try extracting each track and spacing them at zero seconds, but I think burning a CD-R from an image of the whole audio CD would work better. However, this approach yields a disc that contains what sounds likes "skips" (not pops) over the audio. Like bumping a needle on a turntable. This is the first time I've tried burning a CD from an image file. I have a Win98SE PC, PIII-800EB, 512MB, 25GB of available disk space and all non-essential TSR's are disabled. The hard drive is an IBM75GXP 30GB and is master on primary IDE channel. I have a new Cendyne CD-RW 48x16x48 set as master on secondary IDE. A Toshiba 40X CD is slave on secondary IDE. My Cendyne came bundled with Nero 5.5.8.2, but I just upgraded to 5.5.10.7. My PC has no SCSI devices. I have an ASUS CUSL2 motherboard with Intel 815 chipset. A USB 1.0 webcam and USB 1.0 printer are attached. I also have a PCI 56K modem and PCI sound card. Windows ASPI is installed and says it's working fine. DMA is the only option ticked for the CD-RW in system/dev mgr. I use Nero Virtual Recorder to read the source disc and create the image.nrg file. Then I select Burn Image, choose the image.nrg file and select the CD-RW as the recorder. All goes fine until I go to listen to the created disc, which correctly offers playtime and is able to jump from track to track. The "skips" are heavy in tracks 1-3, then go away. I have tried Verbatim, TDK and Memorex CD-R media with the same results. The Nero "CD Copy" tab has a load of options, of which I have not tried every combination. I always burn at 4X and tick "Disk at once". Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks, JR
The procedure seems correct and image burning is the bets thing in order to copy live tracks without gaps. The problem might lie in bad audio ripping/encoding or bad burning. My suggestions are: 1) use ExactAudioCopy ( http://www.exactaudiocopy.de ) 2) go to Audio forum or cd-RW.org site for hints on EAC config and settings If all is bad again, try plaing the CD on a different Audio player. Any problem are to be posted to the Audio forum.
I have the same problem and i need big help. I am a newbie at burning audio CD w/ cue so whoever answer my questin might have to do it in detail. i'd relaly appreciate it if this problem can be solved. Basically i dotn' know how to burn a 78 min long liveset into a CD w/ cue file. simply as that. i have NERO 5.5.10.15 and my cue sheet looks like this PERFORMER "Paul van Dyk" TITLE "HR-XXL Clubnight 03-01-2003 #1" FILE Paul_van_dyk-live_at_hr-xxl_clubnight-dab-03-01-2003 TRACK 01 AUDIO INDEX 01 00:00:00 TITLE "01. Aquaculture - Understatement" TRACK 02 AUDIO TITLE "02. Mr Zenes - Can't hear the drums" INDEX 01 07:36:00 TRACK 03 AUDIO TITLE "03. The Aircrash Bureau - Don't Expect Me (? mix)" INDEX 01 10:58:36 TRACK 04 AUDIO TITLE "04. The Mask - Against The Grain (luca ricci dub mix)" INDEX 01 14:50:46 TRACK 05 AUDIO TITLE "05. Armin van Buuren - Sunburn" INDEX 01 18:51:66 TRACK 06 AUDIO TITLE "06. CIRC - Destroy She Said (de donatis mix)" INDEX 01 22:38:67 TRACK 07 AUDIO TITLE "07. Katoi - Touch You (Ralphie B Mix)" INDEX 01 27:22:72 TRACK 08 AUDIO TITLE "08. Black Eight - The Silence (original mix)" INDEX 01 32:55:60 TRACK 09 AUDIO TITLE "09. Coldplay - Clocks (The heaven and earth division remix)" INDEX 01 38:28:20 TRACK 10 AUDIO TITLE "10. Evilback - Spacefunk" INDEX 01 44:36:00 TRACK 11 AUDIO TITLE "11. Marc O'Tool - Black 'n' White" INDEX 01 48:18:00 TRACK 12 AUDIO TITLE "12. Agoria - I'm Simply Not There (Da Fresh Remix)" INDEX 01 53:38:00 TRACK 13 AUDIO TITLE "13. Bryan Zentz - D-Clash (original mix)" INDEX 01 57:49:00 TRACK 14 AUDIO TITLE "14. Cylone - Lord Of The Land (club Mix)" INDEX 01 60:41:00 TRACK 15 AUDIO TITLE "15. Floorplay - The Beat" INDEX 01 63:45:00 TRACK 16 AUDIO TITLE "16. R. File - Thinking" INDEX 01 67:56:00 TRACK 17 AUDIO TITLE "17. Silencer - Rollin''n Controllin'" INDEX 01 70:44:00 TRACK 18 AUDIO TITLE "18. Cirrus - Hit The Decks" INDEX 01 73:49:00 I chosen "burn image" n pick the cue sheet file .txt n Nero kept on giving me error msg "a error occurred while loading a cue sheet file line 3" like Am i supposed to do something to make my mp3 file become a image file before burning or wut? i'm totally confused n lost.. please explain things step by step. thank you
