Burn audio CD with ImgBurn and DVD Decrypter - not enough space

[theWallflower]

Hi, I'm trying to burn an audio CD using either an image or the wav files themselves. I'm trying to use DVD Decrypter and/or ImgBurn to do this. I've tried the following.
1. Create an image using Nero Burning ROM, save it as an NRG file. Load it into DVD Decrypter. It says it's an invalid or unsupported image file.
2. Use ImgBurn to create an ISO image file, and load it into DVD Decrypter. It says that there is not enough space on the CD (Image size: 754 MB, CD size: 702 MB)
3. Do the same thing as 2, but load it into ImgBurn to burn. It also says there is not enough space on the CD.

I don't understand why it keeps saying this. The files are well below the capacity for a disc (I'm using 80 min/700 MB cd-r). I can successfully burn them with Windows Media Player, and Nero. I have an _NEC DVD+-RW ND-3530A burner.
The reason I am trying these new programs is that Nero and WMP are not giving me the option to burn at 1x, and I'm getting lots of skips, scratches and errors in CDs because of it, and its making me waste CDs.
If this is not the proper forum for this question, please direct me to some sort of "AudioHelp" site. Any help would be appreciated, thanks.

[gadgetguy]

DVD Decrypter and ImgBurn are two versions of the same burning program with Imgburn being the most up to date. Neither are designed for audio CD. Nero converts and compresses your wavs to CD audio but ImgBurn will only burn them as data and it appears from the error you're getting that the unconverted wavs add up to 54MB more than will fit on a 700MB CD.

[Midzuki]

If you are not afraid of the command-line interface,
mkisofs and cdrecord are the tools I'd recommend
as your intention is to write CDs as slowly as possible.

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[piano632]

If you are trying to burn an audio CD at 1x, you first have to make sure the burner supports this low speed. I don't know of any modern burners that will go below 4x for CD, except standalone real-time recorders. But frankly, if your discs skip when burned at 2x or 4x or 8x then I would say you have a problem with your media or your burner.

If your burner does support 1x, you might try Feurio but it won't burn an image file only WAV files or you could use a cue sheet. It takes awhile to learn, but I use it all the time for audio CD's because of the nice way it handles CD-text and other things.

[MOVIEGEEK]

You shouldn't have to burn at 1x to get a good burn,my guess is your writer is bad.

[theWallflower]

It looks like piano632 is right. I've tried a few different burner programs and they all display the same speeds, and it looks like it's based on the writer. However, when I click "properties" on my writer, in the Recording tab, there's an option for selecting a write speed which has 1x, 2x, etc.

[t0nee1]

Try Burrrn, I use it on my wav files to cd burns.....works great.....
http://www.burrrn.net/?page_id=4

[piano632]

I don't think it's possible to burn CD's at 1x on modern burners. Even 2x doesn't work. I think they got rid of the 1x speed way back in 2001. My newest Samsung DVD burner won't even burn DVD's at 1x let alone CD's. They probably figure nobody wants to burn that slow any more. I use an old Mitsumi CR-4804TE burner for my audio CD's so I can burn at 1x-4x. I actually bought an extra one of these burners on Ebay about a year ago for $1 because I like them so much (great audio quality, and they still burn newer 48x discs without any problems even though the firmware hasn't been updated in like 6-7 years).

And also, if your CD size is 702MB, you're 2MB over the limit.

[t0nee1]

Most newer burners can pass the 700MB limit....

[hech54]

Most newer burners can pass the 700MB limit....

If you find a manufacturer (besides LG) that cleary states that their burner will identify and utilize oversized CD media (NOT overburning).....please post them.
I love my LG's but am always game for a different brand replacement.

[t0nee1]

As long as I get a successful burn ,AFAIK I can care less about overburning or not!
I use an NEC burner along with burrrn to burn my audio cd on a memorex 700 CDR,and it works perfectly IMO.....but then again I'm not to a**l about things.....

[edong]

And also, if your CD size is 702MB, you're 2MB over the limit.

With Nero, I always burn data totalling 703MB. And I think it is the normal capacity of 700MB CDs. I have used a couple of NECs, Sony and Memorex CDWriters. If I added a couple of KBs, Nero will complain about the excess and will eject the blank CD. I have not tried other burning software if they can do the same.