I just spent ages creating a CD for one of my kids to listen in his stereo.
Here were my issues:
1) Everytime I choose right-click and the CD burner MC kept asking "Please select CD writing mode" until I went to "CD, DVD & Handhelds" and clicked on my CD player. Annoying to say the least.
2) As I was adding tracks there was no visual indication as to how many minutes was left on my CD (I was doing an audio CD) so I had to keep going to "CD, DVD & Handhelds" and click on my CD player in order to find this out. Unfortunately it takes MC over 10 seconds to display this screen
3) After burning MC wiped out the playlist so I could not create a CD cover ... why?? Could it not keep the list (so you can decide if you want to print it or do something with the list with the right-click menu) and the next time you send a track to the CD burner it popped up a box saying "Do you wish to append or overwrite the current list?".
I don't think it's as fluid/user friendly as it could be.
What are other people's experience/views on this?
Media Center Registered 9.0.143 -- C:\Program Files\J River\Media Center\
Microsoft Windows XP 5.1 Service Pack 1 (Build 2600)
Intel Pentium 4 2831 MHz MMX / Memory: Total - 1048 MB, Free - 607 MB
Internet Explorer: 6.0.2800.1106 / ComCtl32.dll: 5.82 (xpsp1.020828-1920) / Shlwapi.dll: 6.00.2800.1106 (xpsp1.020828-1920)
Shell32.dll: 6.00.2800.1145 (xpsp2.021108-1929) / wnaspi32.dll: Internal ASPI Layer
Ripping / Drive E: Copy mode:ModeBurstBigBuffer CD Type:Auto Read speed:Max
Drive F: Copy mode:ModeBurstBigBuffer CD Type:IDE Read speed:Max
Drive I: 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-32123S Addr: 2:0:0 Speed:32 MaxSpeed:32 Use MJ Engine:Yes
Test mode: No / Eject after writing: Yes / Direct decoding: Yes / Write CD-Text: No
Use playback settings: Yes / Normalization: None