WMP CD Burning

[00accord44]

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

[Damien]

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???

[Toksin]

Originally Posted by 00accord44

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

Well, there are your problems right there.

[00accord44]

^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.

Originally Posted by Damien

Maybe comps just don't like you???

Thats already a proven fact

[Damien]

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?

[00accord44]

^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?

[Damien]

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.

[00accord44]

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.

[l_eclipse_l]

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...ml?tag=lst-4-2

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

[drunken monkey]

when i bought my cd writer (sony something or other) all them years ago, it came with a copy of B's Recorder Gold (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.

[sickcallawayc12]

Originally Posted by 00accord44

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

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.

[ericn1300]

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/

[2.2 Straight six]

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."

[00accord44]

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

[Damien]

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...