Can't burn song and internet issue.

Hello, I was just wondering if anyone knew whats causing this. I burn a few cd's every month, and a few of my mp3's cant be burned anymore for some reason. Any reason why this would happen? Its only a few this has happend too, but I just wanted to know why this is. I tried to use diff programs to burn them too, im guessing its the mp3, but what would make it do this and can it be fixed?

On another topic, my internet randomly goes out at random points durin the day for a little while sometimes. Other times itll be fine. I called comcast and they said theres no known outage in the area. Ive had them come out but the inet happend to be fine when they came. I talked to some of my other friends about this, they said comcast have shitty modems. Could the modem be it? Anyone recommend getting a new modem or any other suggestions?

Thanks everyone.

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Originally Posted by unknown_user

Hello, I was just wondering if anyone knew whats causing this. I burn a few cd's every month, and a few of my mp3's cant be burned anymore for some reason. Any reason why this would happen? Its only a few this has happend too, but I just wanted to know why this is. I tried to use diff programs to burn them too, im guessing its the mp3, but what would make it do this and can it be fixed?

It would help if you provided a little more detail as to why you're MP3s won't burn. What, if any, error message(s) do you get?

There's nowhere I can't reach.

sometimes MP3s can be corrupted with invalid id3v2 tags. You may have to re-encode them. The exact error message the mp3s give you would help a bit.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

It doesnt even give a specific reason for it. It just says the following songs cannot be burned or the following can not be burned. Never gives any specific reason for it . ;(

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

What program are use using for mastering the filesystem and burning the ISO?

I was speaking idiomatically.

I used Acoustica MP3 burner, Itunes, and the program that came w/ my cd player Sony ATRAC 3+ or somethin like that. All of them said they couldnt burn the same songs. I successfully burned them a few times beforehand w/ no problems, but then they coudltn be burned anymroe for some reason.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

Do you convert the audio into CDDA or do you just store the mp3s in a regular iso filesystem?
Have you tried verifying the mp3s that "can't" be burned? Try foobar2000 and convert one of the mp3s in question to a WAV. If the file has errors foobar will tell you so

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Alright, ill convert it w/ foobar tonight. Where would I download this though?

But your first question "Do you convert the audio into CDDA or do you just store the mp3s in a regular iso filesystem?" Im a noob when it comes to these kinda terms. But I think the answer is no, because I just store the mp3's as they are in a list until all of them are there to be burned. So I jsut need to know where foobar is, and know if I understood your 1st question right. Thanks for the help.

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To find foobar2000: Browse to google.com, input 'foobar2000' and let google search. First link

To simplify the question: what product do you get: a data CD or a audio CD (redbook standard)?
Can you play the CD in a standard compact disc audio player (without mp3 support)?

You can also use the standard tools like ISOBuster to check this. Just insert a disc that you created earlier with this program and see what kind of filesystem is stored on the disc.
The amount of music that is one the disc is another indicator.

How ya doing, buddy?

Alright, I successfully converted a couple of the files in question without any problems, so they're ok it seems.

To the other question, nope, because I usually only burn mp3 cd's. But I think I recall burnin a couple regular audio cd's before w/ one or 2 of the questionable mp3's and they were fine.

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OK, so the audio data is fine.

So, do you have Nero Burning ROM? Or better, first another question: How much experience do you have with commandline programs? Because I would advise you to use mkisofs for mastering the filesystem for your disc (which is pretty simple and I could give you instructions what to do) and later using ImgBurn for storing the filesystem on disc.

But if you have Nero (which is also quite standard) you could use this too (I don' really recommmend it, but if you're inexperienced with the commandline then maybe its the best choice).

With Nero just create a regular data CD with the content in the root directory (I don't know your standalone-player and what capabilities it has concerning playing mp3 discs - I own a Philips DVP5505S which has support for deep nested directories, but I know some players that only will play the root directory)

If you want to try out mkisofs, then tell me.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

Ok, I have pretty much zero experience w/ pretty much everything mentioned in the last post. :P But I dont have Nero Burning ROM though. And I pretty much dont know how to master the filesystem for my discs. I dont think I even know what that means lol. So what should be done next?

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

So if you want I can guide you through the mastering process with mkisofs. Burning the resulting ISO with ImgBurn is a trivial task after that.

So if you want instructions I need a few more informations about your system. I assume you're using Windows XP (Home? Pro?) as operating system?
Then I would be nice to know the kind of device you're playing the mp3 discs with (DVD-standalone, another PC, etc.).

Some stuff you need for the process:
hxxp://smithii.com/files/cdrtools-2.01-bootcd.ru-w32.zip (mkisofs binary)
hxxp://www.imgburn.com/ (you download the latest version of ImgBurn from there)

I was speaking idiomatically.

LiquidAcid, are you seriously suggesting to make an ISO with mkisofs for burning audio CDs? Sorry, but that's ridiculous, especially for beginners.

Every decent burning software supports burning audio CDs from all sorts of audio files, .WAV included.

unknown_user: Just use your Acoustica or get Nero and burn your converted files.

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Originally Posted by Rock

LiquidAcid, are you seriously suggesting to make an ISO with mkisofs for burning audio CDs?

According to what he said, he's not creating any audio CDs, but data CDs.

Originally Posted by Rock

Sorry, but that's ridiculous, especially for beginners.

It's not ridicolous, it's doing it the right way. And I don't force him to use mkisofs, he can do whatever he likes to. It's only a suggestion.

Originally Posted by Rock

Every decent burning software supports burning audio CDs from all sorts of audio files, .WAV included.

unknown_user: Just use your Acoustica or get Nero and burn your converted files.

Obvioulsy Acoustica does not do the job (I don't even know this software) and Nero is not available. And I won't encourage downloading unlicensed software if there is a free tool out there that does the job. And mkisofs does its job good.

FELIPE NO

Ok, I downloaded the cdrtools and the setupImgburn 2.0.0

Im using Windows XP Pro, but its pirated. I get that stupid "this version of windows isnt genuine."

Im playing the mp3 discs w/ my mp3 player, its the Sony MP3/ATRAC cd player. The program that comes with it, makes the file smaller into .omg files i think, not exactly sure. But they still wouldnt burn even before I tried makin those kinda cd's. Before that I used a Memorex mp3 player.

What, you don't want my bikini-clad body?

Now you can install ImgBurn and unpack cdrtools into something like "C:\Program Files\cdrtools-2.01-bootcd.ru-w32", depending on where you store your programs (I usually use D for the programs).

Now you can fire up your editor of choice and create a batch file in the cdrtools directory, containing:
mkisofs.exe -v -iso-level X -J -V "Disc title" -o "image.iso" "C:\source_data"
pause

You have to replace the 'X' with your choice. I think you can stay with a setting of 3. 4 is nice if the player can handle it and provides much much longer filenames (a problem sometimes can arise). 'Disc title' can be replaced by the title the disc should have (displayed by the player/explorer/etc.) and 'image.iso' is the resulting ISO file, that you can burn.

'C:\source_data' is the directory you store the files in. So after modifying the batch file according to you needs you can create the source_data directory on C and fill it with the data that goes onto the disc.

Then you doubleclick the batch and wait for a while. Then better check for errors during the mastering process (things like too long filenames create errors, and such). After completing the mastering you can now fire up ImgBurn, select your burning device, select the ISO you just created and burn it to a CDR. Then test it, ft you're lucky it should work.
If not, then don't hesitate to ask more questions.

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There's nowhere I can't reach.

Alright, I got the mp3's sorted out. Thanks Liquid Acid!

Any tips on the inet issue though?

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