I have a Yamaha 3200E burner and both Nero Burning ROM which came with the unit and Roxio 5.0. I have so far ruined approx. 14 CD-R discs. I create a list of mp3 songs (free ones only) and tell it to burn then finalize. What I end up with is a CD that shows a list of say 27 tracks at 44kb for each track. HEELLLPP! What am I doing wrong. When I drop one into a home stereo it registers "NO DISC" and when I look at it in "MY Computer" I see the tracks but only 44k each.
Yes but I want an audio CD that I can play in my car or home stereo. Can this be done using mp3's??? I have successfully copied songs from other cd's but when I use mp3's all I get is the 44kb tracks.
What you need to do is convert all mp3 files to wave first and then burn the wave files to a audio CD.
Audio data is not accessible from Windows Explorer (that's why we use "rippers"), it shows 44 bytes shortcuts instead. There's nothing wrong with it. All you audio CDs should show up with 44 bytes "files" in the explorer, even original ones. The CD should play fine in Windows CD Player. If it's not recognized in external players, maybe it is because of a bad media/burner. Put the finalized disc into the burner, and in Nero, ask for "recorder/medium info". It should display "Audio CD". If you can play it with Windows CD Player, it's just a problem with the quality of the CDRs.
