cd burn

[vida]

using a recently purchased ION turntable and version 1.2.6 audacity, i've transfered an album to file...done automatic division of tracks and exported multiple selection to windows media. i can listen to it there, but cannot burn it to disc. the program seems to complete but at the last second, i get a pop-up stating that (windows cannot burn the files to cd...verify that the disc is clean or change to another brand...or select slower recording speed). i've tried this to no avail. am i missing something?

[kozikowski]

<<<am i missing something?>>>

Maybe not. Why do you think your disk burner works? Were you able to burn a music CD last week from any kind of music from anywhere?

Do you have burning software other than Windows Media? I don't think it's a music or Digital Rights problem. I think Windows Media can't blast its laser past all the dog hairs in there. Did you actually go out to Staples or Office Depot and buy a different brand CD blank? I like to do testing on Sony disks and then maybe branch out to other manufacturers later. We tend to not like Maxell disks.

Koz

[vida]

MANY THANKS!!!!!!! your tip about windows media was right on. i now have a music disc, but must have made a mistake on separating the tracks since all songs recorded to one track. as i stated, i used the automatic feature. would it be better to divide tracks manually?

[waxcylinder]

vida,

I would favour manually - Audacity is capble of finding "false gaps" and introducing more tracks than required.

Also doing it manually gives you a chance to clean up the inter-track gaps:
a) they may be noisy and you may want to Silece them with Edit>Silence (or CTRL+L)
b) they may be too long or too short
c) you may want to fade-in/fade-out

WC

[wlloydcain]

It appears I'm having the same problem vida experienced. I have recorded from some old cassette tapes. But they burn to a CD as single track. How, then, do you manually separate each song into a separate track? Have looked in the help file (Audacity software) as well as several pages of the downloadable PDF manual -- but unable to find the advice I need. Would appreciate input from anyone out there.

Thanks,
Lloyd

[waxcylinder]

All you need to do is to place a label at each track break - use the Ctrl-B shortcut - and don't forget to place a label right at the beginning for the first track.

Then use Audacity's Export Multiple command (available from the File drop-down) to export a multiple set of WAVs, MP3s or whatever.

The Audacity Wiki, Documentation and Tutorials have much useful information on how to do this - a recommended read - http://audacityteam.org/help/

WC