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[Dopas]

Hi,
just yesterday MC (Media Center Registered 11.0.274, Burning /  Drive H: _NEC     DVD_RW ND-3500AG   Addr: 1:0:0  Speed:24  MaxSpeed:24  BurnProof:Yes) crashed again, when I tried to burn a cd. It crashed right when it was supposed to start burning, so I lost my whole burning queue that I put together from different places in a 30 minute work.

Of course beside making MC more robust to such issues, I suggest following enhancement:

MC should add each cd burning list into a new folder called "Recent CD Burns" , just like it's done for "Playing recent nows". The moment I hit "Burn" it should create a playlist and add it to the folder, so it could be recovered at any time later.

This would have the advantage that a CD could be burnt a second time later, even after MC had been restarted. And it will reduce the frustration if MC should crash during the burning process.

Thanks
Dom

[Dutch Peter]

Why not create a playlist first and burn it onto CD.
After a succesfull burn you could remove it if you wish.

Dutch Peter

[Dopas]

Why not create a playlist first and burn it onto CD.
After a succesfull burn you could remove it if you wish.

Dutch Peter

Right, that works as a work around and that is what I have to do now. But it will not recover the burning lists where I forgot to make a playlists first. Is that really how it supposed to work? Always create a playlist, just to make a cd?

Having it automatically created will remove such work and make sure thousands of MC users won't have to always create a playlist for burning lists, since the backup is created in the background.
This is just a usability feature and it seems easy enough to implement, since it is no real new feature, no one mindes if the "playing nows" folder also includes burning lists ... 

Dom

[Dutch Peter]

Indeed, it was ment as a workaround.
I think your idea of adding 'Recent CD Burns' is a nice additional feature.
 

[Dopas]

Are we really the only two, that would appreciate this feature? 
The ability to go back to previous burns would allow to see what has been burnt at any time later and really allow to recover a burning list after MC crashed or if it closed for whatever reason, maybe it would also be useful to create a cd labels later on. Any chance of getting this into MC?

Thanks guys.
Dom

[LonWar]

I could see a lot of uses for this.... I burn a lot of cd's for my car, and I try to keep those in a play list so I can remember what's burnt and what isn't. I just don't always remember......