CD Burning Glitches (all-of-a-sudden)

John Cipriano · Post by **John Cipriano** » 17 Sep 2009 2:19 pm

I think the solution is just not to trust Nero's audio playback. If I am understanding correctly, the audio plays back on the CD fine and WinAMP fine, so I don't think it should matter too much if Nero's glitchy. Of course, it'd be nice if it weren't, but at least the problem is confined to that program.

Anyway, for older versions of Nero: http://www.oldversion.com/Nero.html

Chip Fossa · Post by **Chip Fossa** » 17 Sep 2009 2:29 pm

John,

A burned CD from Nero has the glitches showing up. If I take the file(s) in question and play it in either Winamp, WMP, or Goldwave (and probably Audacity) the file plays fine.

In Nero, they glitch-out; when they are played previous to a burn and then on the finished burned CD.

"Wondeful Wondeful": when it first glitched in Nero, I immediately deleted it from the Nero screen and from Oldies#5 folder; went out to YouTube and made another PERFECT recording. Put it back in the Nero field, and it glitched-out.

Thanks for the link to old versions of Nero. I may just uninstall the one I got and reinstall one from that site (as Jack suggested).

Wiz Feinberg · Post by **Wiz Feinberg** » 17 Sep 2009 5:28 pm

Chip;
Maybe you need to look for a configuration screen in Nero that assigns more buffers for playback. Those are areas in memory that the program will reserve for playing and recording large audio files.

Chip Fossa · Post by **Chip Fossa** » 18 Sep 2009 3:24 am

Wiz,

I looked all over Nero7 for anything regarding 'buffer' or 'buffering'. I could find no settings.
However, as the burning starts, part of the screen says something about buffer override is enabled; or something to that effect.

Jack Stoner · Post by **Jack Stoner** » 18 Sep 2009 4:53 am

There are no options in Nero for buffers when playing from the Nero "Burning ROM" program (the program that is used to burn Audio CD's).

I have Nero Ultra V8 (full paid version)and if I highlight a wav file that I have for burning and play there is no messages - the song just plays.

John Cipriano · Post by **John Cipriano** » 18 Sep 2009 8:31 am

In that case I'd just use InfraRecorder. It's free and open source and it will do audio and data CDs.

http://infrarecorder.org/?page_id=5

Chip Fossa · Post by **Chip Fossa** » 18 Sep 2009 10:30 am

I did find a buffer listing this morning in Nero7. It was under EXTRAS/Get System Info/Nero InfoTool 4. The buffer size was 2MB, but it looked like it was related to Optiarc DVD Drive E:

I can still burn using WMP and possibly Creative Media Source (if it feels like working).
I just happened to like Nero because before you burn you do a final check of all the files, including the nice FILTERS they have.
But I can do all this, too, in Goldwave. They've got probably 5X the effects as Nero (including ECHO). I'm going to GW anyway before I put the the files up to burn; so as to even out the volume levels from song to song.

That Nero7 old version site listed a lot of v.7s, but my version was not among them, 7.11.10.0 (NeroExpressEssentials).

Storm Rosson · Post by **Storm Rosson** » 17 Oct 2009 5:10 pm

Yeah you just read the hw info file saying the drive was made by opti-arc(sony) and it has a physical on board buffer ram of 2 MB. fwiw Nero media player is a known pos.....Imageburn is free and works great. I use Nero 9 essentials to burn with but don't even install their various audio or video players