WMP CD Burning

So my Windows Media Player has not consistently burned CD ever since I bought this laptop. Depending on what blank cds i use, it may or may not burn an entire disc. Sometimes it will go through all the motions just to tell me that there was a problem while burning my disc and it could not be completed. Other times it will burn the disc, but when i put the cd in my car it will only play the first 6 songs or so before it starts REALLY struggling to read the disc. And on very rare occasions I have managed to burn complete cds.

I thought these problems were unique to my laptop which has had itss share of issues, but then I tried a burn on my roommate's desktop with WMP and it pulled the "problem burining last track". So I'm wondering if anybody else heard of this type of problem with WMP especially in Windows XP. I'm not really looking for a solution, I figure I'll just have to wait to buy a new computer to burn like I want.

As a side note, I also tried to burn a disc in Real Player just now and it acted as if it burned the whole cd successfully but i put it in the car and there were 0 tracks. Then I put it back in the computer and WMP said it was blank. WTF!? I used the "blank" to try and burn the same thing in WMP and it burned 0:04 of track 1 and then gave an error :shakehead

Never had a problem in the last...3 years. I put what I want on there and it burns it. Wish I could help but I don't know.

Maybe comps just don't like you???

So my Windows Media Player has not consistently burned CD ever since I bought this laptop. Depending on what blank cds i use, it may or may not burn an entire disc. Sometimes it will go through all the motions just to tell me that there was a problem while burning my disc and it could not be completed. Other times it will burn the disc, but when i put the cd in my car it will only play the first 6 songs or so before it starts REALLY struggling to read the disc. And on very rare occasions I have managed to burn complete cds.

I thought these problems were unique to my laptop which has had itss share of issues, but then I tried a burn on my roommate's desktop with WMP and it pulled the "problem burining last track". So I'm wondering if anybody else heard of this type of problem with WMP especially in Windows XP. I'm not really looking for a solution, I figure I'll just have to wait to buy a new computer to burn like I want.

As a side note, I also tried to burn a disc in Real Player just now and it acted as if it burned the whole cd successfully but i put it in the car and there were 0 tracks. Then I put it back in the computer and WMP said it was blank. WTF!? I used the "blank" to try and burn the same thing in WMP and it burned 0:04 of track 1 and then gave an error :shakehead


Well, there are your problems right there.

^The only other program I ever had to burn was Roxio but somehow that didn't make it onto this laptop even though I had it on my first one just like this.

Maybe comps just don't like you???
Thats already a proven fact :frown:

Whatss a good program to burn DVD's off of? I got nothing with my comp....or I did and deleted it awhile back. W/e...anything free for download?

^You can download Real Player 7 for free now I believe. I don't know how true the good program part is, but a free program it is

So I just tried to burn a cd with only 13 tracks, about 50 min, and it burned the whole thing. Most times I use about 70-78 min on an 80min disc but thats when it usually fails. I guess I have to keep cds short but I don't understand why it would fail on longer cds?

That is weird my friend. what WMP is it? I been burning like crazy lately. CD's that is. But I got like 100 movies i need to put on dvd and WMP doesnt do that.

I've been burning like crazy too... and sometimes with cds (I crack me up) I didn't know you were tryna burn dvds. I don't know much about that since I'm still pimpin it ol skool with just a CDR. I'm sure theres some out there, just do a general yahoo search and see what comes up.

Toksin hit it on the head. If you are really into burning media as much as you say, you should have searched for an alternative ages ago.

Nobody should ever recommend Real Player.

I have been using Nero 7 to burn stuff since...well it came out. Solid software. Pretty much burn any type of media, including DVDs. You can download a 15 day trial here:

http://www.download.com/Nero-7-Ultra-Edition-Enhanced/3000-2646_4-10654753.html?tag=lst-4-2

It's probably not the best out there, but it beats the pants off WMP or RP.

when i bought my cd writer (sony something or other) all them years ago, it came with a copy of B's Recorder Gold (http://www.bhacorp.com/products/index.htmll) (yes, it's a crap name) and it never failed me. It also came with a copy of nero that didn't agree with my PC at the time so I never really used it.

My new pc has Nero on it and I've been re-organising my office files and making back ups onto dvds on that with no problems either.

I've never used windows' default writers, especially after watching someone take 15 minutes to burn a cd that should really only take 3 minutes.

So my Windows Media Player has not consistently burned CD ever since I bought this laptop. Depending on what blank cds i use, it may or may not burn an entire disc. Sometimes it will go through all the motions just to tell me that there was a problem while burning my disc and it could not be completed. Other times it will burn the disc, but when i put the cd in my car it will only play the first 6 songs or so before it starts REALLY struggling to read the disc. And on very rare occasions I have managed to burn complete cds.

I thought these problems were unique to my laptop which has had itss share of issues, but then I tried a burn on my roommate's desktop with WMP and it pulled the "problem burining last track". So I'm wondering if anybody else heard of this type of problem with WMP especially in Windows XP. I'm not really looking for a solution, I figure I'll just have to wait to buy a new computer to burn like I want.

As a side note, I also tried to burn a disc in Real Player just now and it acted as if it burned the whole cd successfully but i put it in the car and there were 0 tracks. Then I put it back in the computer and WMP said it was blank. WTF!? I used the "blank" to try and burn the same thing in WMP and it burned 0:04 of track 1 and then gave an error :shakehead
WMP has never been consistent with CD burning. i dealt with it more when i was running Millennium on my comp a while back, but it happened on XP quite a few times for me also. Only other programs i've used for burning is Nero, Roxio, and Itunes. Nero was really cool before my burner broke (not nero fault), Roxio is so-so, and i won't recommend Itunes, I might get banned. :p

I use a freeware program called CDBurnerXP. Faster and easier to use than Nero or Roxio and it actually reads the power level of your CD burner and warns you of bad writes. Just adjust the write rate down unitil you get a good CD

I wouldn't use WMP even it was free. Oh yeah, thats right it's free and still over priced. what a resource hog.

CDBurnerXP Pro is a free CD/DVD burning solution. With this software you can burn CD-R, CD-RW DVD+R/RW DVD-R/RW discs. For all features in detail you can read. http://cdburnerxp.se/

i've always used WMP and never had a problem.

my guess is that your computer is telling you that you have bad taste.

it's like "damn, this music is terrible, i'm not even going to dignify it by putting it on CD."

If Alvin & the Chipmunks Greatest Hits is bad music then I don't wanna know what good music is

Spent way too much time isolated on Banlandia...but I gotta agree with the Brit here. Never heard of this, except from people that didn't know what they were doing. Wait...

I gave up on WMP and Real Player a few years back. I have been using an older edition of Roxio that came with the computer back in '02. It does an all right job. I sometimes have a problem when I put a new, blank CD in the burner and then go to burn a Cd and I get an error message telling me there is no disc in the burner to put one in and hit retry. What could be causing this issue? Also, I bought a spool of blank CDs a few years back and don't know if they are 74 minute or 80 minute capacity. Is there a way to find out when I put a blank disc in the burner? I think I'll look into that program CDBurnerXp that was mentioned earlier

Why can't we just go back to 8 tracks? I understood those just fine :(

very ghetto.

I burned a cd with that CDBUrnerXP and it also turned up with an error in my car. I guess music hates me :(

Could be the CD itself. A similar thing happened to me last year. I go from car to car at my job and sometimes it will play all tracks and sometimes it will go up to six tracks with the sixth one giving a 'scratching' sound and then it won't read after that. I was using an older Nero program at the time. I switched to a Sony CD-R and never had a problem since then even after getting Nero 7...

IN your car? That sounds like a CD problem. NOt every CD can be played in a car's CD player. ALso make sure the files you're burning are MP3's.

odd. our golf sometimes doesn't like to play tracks that've been written onto a CD, and sometimes origninal CDs won't play either.

Can't be the CDs cause I used the same kind with the disc that burned and the ones that failed. All my files are mp3 except for select few old wma tracks which should be fine for burning in WMP :dunno:

Does that CDburner XP do enhanced discs?

have you tried playing the bad tracks on the cd burner you used to write the tracks? could be a compatibility problem.

yeah. whatever my comp burns all the way through it will recognize later but that never suprised me

yeah. whatever my comp burns all the way through it will recognize later but that never suprised me

ok, so now one of the two is out of calibration. try playing the bad tacks on a third player.

tried that. Xbox reads the 6 track error discs (as in errors after 6 tracks) just fine. Didnt try it in P3 but if xbox reads it I dont see why p3 wouldnt.

just give it up and go out and buy CDs like...um, i cant say normal people bcause normal people now of days burn them. So then be unique!!!

try setting it to a lowed burn speed. i found when i ran this computer's write drive at max speed (56x i think) i got errors and problems, but turn it down a bit and it burns without problems.

tried that before too with no luck. my newest theory is that my computer only treats certain discs as 80 minutes as opposed to 72. All my cds made in the last 2 days less than 72 minutes have been fine while longer discs failed. My discs are 80 min and even appear in WMP as 79:57 but for whatever reason they only burn to 72 min

i think you need a new cd burner. splurge and get one new, only about $30.