only half my music was burned to cd-r why?

[noemi]

Hi,
I have burned many music cd-r's and never had a problem with playing them anywhere. Today I did what I usually do and used the same cd-r but only 7 out of the 16 songs I wanted to burn play. The cd player jumps from song 7 to 16 and only 1-7 play. What could be the issue all of a sudden?? I did it twice and the same thing happened. Now I have to go buy more discs. Should I be buying something different??

[jman98]

Welcome to the forums.

This is what you think you told us - My car makes a squealing sound when I hit the brakes. I've also noticed that it seems to take longer to stop than it did in the past and I sometimes smell a burning smell when I hit the brakes. It's been 4 years since I last had any brake work done.

This is what you actually told us - My car has a problem.

Rectify this situation and provide a LOT more information if you really want help. We need to what format your source files are in and what software you used to burn them at a minimum.

[noemi]

Huh? Ok I think I know what you mean. I used windows media player as usual and the player was on wpl but I read on hear where I could try changing it to m3u I think, but I never had an issue before so I don't know what to do. I need to buy more disks befor trying anything else, I just wanted some ideas first. This is all I know. I don't know much about technical issues so i'm on here for help. Thanks anyway.

[MOVIEGEEK]

Where you making an audio CD or MP3 CD? M3U is used on a MP3 CD and WPL is used on a WMA CD, they tell the player the track order.

[noemi]

I'm guesing audio cd because that's all i've been using them for, for a couple years now. It doesn't say anywhere on the 10 pack Memorex CD-r whether it's audio or mp3. It says 52x 700mb 80min., that's about it. I burned two in the last month and didn't have any issues. Thanks for your responce.

[Cornucopia]

An mp3 cd is formatted as a DATA disc, with files in a filesystem. An audio cd is formatted as a RedBook AUDIO cd, with raw tracks of audio and WITHOUT a filesystem.

Audio cds will play in ANY player under the sun (as long as it reads burned cds). Data cds can only be played in players that specifically support the disc's filesystem and those particular types of files (codecs & containers). This usually includes computer readers...

Btw, the presence of a playlist metafile (m3u, wpl, etc) doesn't necessarily guarantee the existence nor playability of the audio files it is referring to, especially on the burned disc (things get lost/forgotten during the burning setup).

Could also be that you meant to burn data but burned audio and the audio of the total files exceeded the capacity of the disc, so it only burned what it knew would fit (<=80 min.).

Scott

[hech54]

Yes....you are most likely confusing a CD full of MP3 songs with a standard music CD. 700MB of MP3 files, after being converted to the required CDA/WAV files for a standard audio CD will not fit(yes....even if the MP3 files are considerably smaller that 700MB since on average, MP3 files are 1/10th the size of their original CD/Wave file/song).

And NO....you will never have the original quality of the music back. Once it has been almost ruined by making it into an MP3 file...the original quality is gone and gone forever.