I am trying to change the burn speed in Nero 5.5 to 16X and I can't seem to find where you change the burn speed, does anyone have a fix I can do easily? What I am trying to do is burn 8-Track tape files from my computer to Nero. It was suggested to me I use the speed of 16X to burn at.
I will assume Nero will only allow slower burn speeds? I can't think even Nero would concider 16x as too slow to allow you to select it. I have never heard such a request, I want to burn faster than Nero will let me. The normal complaint for Nero is you can't slow it down enough to make a good copy. Nero doesn't care if you make 5 coasters in a row it will not let you slow down. Nero figures the users are too stupid to give them many burn speed choices. It tells you what to do becase it is SMART. You can't tell it what to do. The faster you burn the worse the quality. As long as it is good enough, the quality might not matter until you try to read it in an iffy reader. I hate Nero because they are all morons at that company! If you actually want to burn slower, try Media Monkey an audio manager app or Imgburn a burning app. Both allow slow burning speeds.
Thanks for the info I will try the programs you suggest. I got the info on the burn speed from a company that burns 8 track tapes for a living and that is the speed they suggest I use, according to them the slower the speed the better quality you get...unless I am mistakem 16X is slower than 4x which is which Nero will only let me burn at now.
16 x is 4 times faster than 4. Professions use high quality (professional grade) media so they can burn as fast as possible. What they use is way better than what we would concider prime (consumer) quality. They buy a professional grade in a huge quanity in a lot for many times what we would want to spend on a disk. I am just guessing a $1 a disk in lots of 1,000. I bet they test the lot samples before they buy. I moonlighted for a professional floppy disk copier many years ago. He offered to sell me some 'bargan disks' for only 5 times what I bought disks for as a favor. I told him what I paid and he tested one of my disks. He said his copy machines would reject what I had as junk. It only contained 10% of the quality (gauss) the copy machines would take. Consumer grade is borderline junk. By buying 'good stuff' and burning slow we keep rejects to a minimum.
not sure if you can help me on this or not...but I am using wavepad as my recorder... I am trying to find the type of file that is used for recording...the only files I can record or convert to now are: .aff,.gsm,.vox,.raw,.ogg,.flac,.acc,.m4a,.rss,.m3u,.plg,.wpl,.ams, will any of these work...or should I be using something else, I am trying to to make a CD for my home stero use.
.aiff .flac .wave will give you the best overall results. Try audacity because I don't know about wavepad .. looking at it's page it seems like rather primitive software. @ Mez .. Yeah.. I have a bulk job on.. making Disklavier disks.. ONE pro grade DD floppy is costing me more that 25 standard "consumer grade" HD disks which won't work in the machines anyway.. I always used to buy pro grade audio tape at 5 or 6 times the price of the consumer stuff.. people said I was mad.. I wonder how many of their tapes sound as good now 25 years on XD
I tried audacity, burned a disc and it still won't play on my home stero system...any ideas? P.S. It plays on my car and portable CD player tho. I'd like to have the disc (s) play on all three.
You could try different discs maybe, or different burning software; obviously the discs that you burned are okay, as they play on two different devices, but if your home stereo doesn't like them for whatever reason. When I burned my first audio CD, I did it with Windows Media Player. I didn't know s fudge about anything. The disc would play in a home CD player, but would not work in my car. Then, I got myself a copy of Nero and made the audio CDs with Nero, and had no playback problems in the car. Also, nowadays the CD-Rs are rated for 52X or something like that? Burning @4X I think is just overkill...Some of the new burners might not even have the proper writing strategies for speeds that slow.
Any ideas on what discs would be compatable with a Sony CDP C235 cd player, that is what I am using on my home stero system, obviously changing out software to record and burn is NOT where my problem lies as I have tried 2 different ones.
I doubt that the problem is the media CDs are not very demanding. Make sure you are burning as an audio disk not an mp3 disk. MP3 audio disks have more than one format your old CD player might not recognize. varnull, you got what you paid for back then and I am sure it is the same today. I still have a cashe of high grade 2X CDs that cost me 10 USD per disk for a lot of 10. I use them if I want to make a perment archive. I have never seen one of them go bad yet. I have seen DVDs go bad in months. My son left some DVDs upside down because he was too lazy to put them away and did not want to scratch the surface. They got direct sunlight for weeks/ months? They were all toast. I could see imprints of things left on the disks as they bleached out.
I definately am not working with Mp3 files, but I did take the advice on changing to audacity as my recorder program...now I'm trying to find a burner program that is compatable with the audacity program files wichever it(they) may be...right now I got three folders and not sure which to use, then I can try it out again on all three players...but with the main focus again being on my home stero system, which is the sony.
