Just FYI: when I burn a CD with "decode directly to CD" enabled, all tracks except the first start a few seconds before the marker for the beginning of the track. What I mean is that if I put the CD in and then press "next track" on the CD player until I get to, say, track 3, I will actually be a few seconds into the song. If I rewind a few seconds before the beginning of track 3, I get the actual beginning of the song. This is with the "burn DSP effects" option disabled, so it's not a side effect of crossfades or anything like that.
I'm fine with disabling "decode directly to CD", but I thought y'all might like to know...
Here's my MC information:
Media Center Registered 9.0.175 -- C:\Program Files\J River\Media Jukebox\
Microsoft Windows 2000 Workstation 5.0 Service Pack 3 (Build 2195)
AMD Athlon 1299 MHz MMX / Memory: Total - 523 MB, Free - 350 MB
Internet Explorer: 6.0.2800.1106 / ComCtl32.dll: 5.81 / Shlwapi.dll: 6.00.2800.1106 / Shell32.dll: 5.00.3502.6144 / wnaspi32.dll: Internal ASPI Layer
Ripping / Drive E: Copy mode:ModeBurstBigBuffer CD Type:Auto Read speed:Max
Drive F: Copy mode:ModeBurstBigBuffer CD Type:Auto Read speed:Max
Drive G: Copy mode:ModeBurstBigBuffer CD Type:Auto Read speed:Max
Digital playback: Yes / Use YADB: Yes / Get cover art: No / Calc replay gain: No / Copy volume: 32767
Eject after ripping: No / Play sound after ripping: No
Burning / Drive E: LITE-ON LTR-48125W Addr: 2:0:0 Speed:24 MaxSpeed:48 Use MJ Engine:Yes
Test mode: No / Eject after writing: No / Direct decoding: No / Write CD-Text: No
Use playback settings: No / Normalization: None