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[Piranhahaha]

I imported two albums into MC10 with no problems.

They total 78 minutes, with enough space left over on an 80 minute disc.

Yet when I hit Burn CD and get the "no more files can be imported" box, it stalls.

A box comes up stating:

"Cant’ start the write."

In the burn progress box, this is stated:

"Failed to send cue sheet to CD.
Invalid field in parameter list."

I searched "invalid" and "parameter" in the help index and also in this forum.  No results applied to this problem. 

What do these messages mean?  Are they fixable?

[JohnT]

Try unchecking the "cd-text" box in burn options. Enable test mode to avoid creating coasters while testing. Also, please you post your system info here.

[Piranhahaha]

Thanks for responding -- this is very mysterious, as I burned a bunch of CD's over the weekend without a problem.

I enabled test mode, but the test gave me the same messages.

I don't see where to uncheck CD text, although I found where I could edit it.  I tried making all the artist names the same, and then clearing both boxes, but that didn't help.

I've got a Dell Inspiron 8500 and am using Windows XP Home.  Even with all the uncompressed .wav files on the hard drive, I've got 5GB left in memory. 

The only thing I did out of the ordinary on this batch of tracks is that I deleted a few false start tracks when I had trouble starting recording on side B of an LP.  Did that affect it?

Thanks for any help you can give me. 


Modified to add: it doesn't appear to be writing anything at all to the blank CD, so no coaster problem.

[glynor]

Try unchecking the "cd-text" box in burn options. Enable test mode to avoid creating coasters while testing. Also, please you post your system info here.

By System Info, he meant go to Help --> System Info from inside MC and post that information here.

Also, you said you've 5 GB left in memory.  I sincerely doubt that you have 5 GB of memory on your computer ... Do you mean 5GB of free hard drive space?  Nevermind, I didn't see the beginning of that sentence.  Sorry.

[Piranhahaha]

Ah, OK.

Here's a cut & paste -- is this the right info?

(And after looking at it, it says "Write CD-Text: Yes"  How do I get it to say "No" -- there's a box to uncheck somewhere?)

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Media Center Registered 10.0.173 -- C:\Program Files\J River\Media Center\

Microsoft Windows XP  Workstation 5.1 Service Pack 1 (Build 2600)
Intel Pentium 4 1189 MHz MMX / Memory: Total - 523 MB, Free - 251 MB

Internet Explorer: 6.0.2800.1106 / ComCtl32.dll: 5.82 (xpsp1.020828-1920) / Shlwapi.dll: 6.00.2800.1514 (xpsp2.040109-1800) / Shell32.dll: 6.00.2800.1556 (xpsp2_gdr.040517-1325) / wnaspi32.dll: 4.71 (0002) , ASPI for Win32         DLL, Copyright © 1989-2002 Adaptec, Inc. / Aspi32.sys: 4.71 (0002)

Ripping /   Drive D: SAMSUNG CDRW/DVD SN-324B  Mode:Normal  Type:Auto  Speed:Max
  Digital playback: Yes /  Use YADB: Yes /  Get cover art: No /  Calc replay gain: Yes /  Copy volume: 32767
  Eject after ripping: Yes /  Play sound after ripping: No 

Burning /  Drive D: SAMSUNG  CDRW/DVD SN-324B   Addr: 1:0:0  Speed:24  MaxSpeed:24  BurnProof:Yes
  Test mode: Yes /  Eject after writing: Yes /  Direct decoding: Yes /  Write CD-Text: Yes
  Use playback settings: No /  Normalization: None

[JohnT]

Assuming you're burning an audio CD, click Options in the CD burn window, then select "Burn settings..." and look under "Audio CD Options". You might as well uncheck all these options ("decode files direct...", "write cd-text", "apply cross-fade...").

[Piranhahaha]

OK, I unchecked those options, tried to burn it, but it didn't complete:

- first, it spent a few minutes "preparing" each of the 26 tracks, which I've never seen it do,

- then got to a message under the status bar in the burn progress box that states: "Couldn't start audio recordin...." which is odd because I'd already recorded the tracks into .wav files.

I really appreciate your help -- can you figure out what's going on?

Again, I burned a set of CD's from a DVD audio source without any problems.  This is the first cut I've taken at recording from LP's since last summer, and was able to do it successfully back then. 

[Piranhahaha]

I'm getting extremely frustrated. 

I've monkeyed around with as many options as I can find, yet MC10 is still not burning an audio CD for me, which is pretty much a basic function. 

I'm convinced that this "preparing" step is to blame.

When I've burned CD's before, MC10 just burns them. 

Now I have to wait five minutes for it to tell me that it can't begin audio recording. 

Can anyone please help?  Why is it that I can no longer burn an audio CD?

[JohnT]

The "preparing" step occurs because you unchecked the "direct decoding" option. Since disabling that option didn't help the problem, you can enable that option again. You can also enable the cd-text option again.

Can you burn anything? Try dragging a couple (different) small tracks to the burn bin and see if they will burn ok. If so, there may be a problem with the other files you are trying to burn.

To rule out a hardware problem, can you burn ok with other software?

[Piranhahaha]

I'll record something else via LP later today -- there may well be something wrong with the tracks I'm trying to burn.

I burned a CD via iTunes on Saturday, but that might have been before this problem surfaced.  Or perhaps even caused it.

I'll try these steps and let you know, and thanks for responding.

BTW, whenever I insert a blank disc, a box prompt comes up asking what I want to do with it -- burn via RealPlayer, open with Windows something-or-another, or take no action, which is the selection I click.

Does this tell you anything?  I don't recall seeing this prompt before. 

[JohnT]

I'll record something else via LP later today -- there may well be something wrong with the tracks I'm trying to burn.

Do you have any other (small) tracks you could try, for instance one that was ripped from a CD?

BTW, whenever I insert a blank disc, a box prompt comes up asking what I want to do with it -- burn via RealPlayer, open with Windows something-or-another, or take no action, which is the selection I click.
Does this tell you anything?  I don't recall seeing this prompt before. 

This is normal behavior. If you select the "Take no action" choice and check the box labeled "Always do the selected action" it won't ask you any more.

[Piranhahaha]

I ripped a CD into MC10 and was able to burn it to a copy disc without incident.

I recorded some more tracks from LP via my Maya EX through the line-in USB connection and got the same message at the end of the preparation stage: ""Couldn't start audio recordin...."

I used the Maya EX last week to import & burn tracks taken from a DVD, with the Maya connected to the red & white audio outputs identical to those on my phono preamp.

I also used the Maya last summer to import & burn LP's with the exact same setup without incident.

Both the CD and the LP tracks were imported as uncompressed 1411 .wav files, so I'm at my wits end trying to figure out why MC10 is treating them differently.   

Do you know what this message -- which appears at the end of the preparation stage -- "Couldn't start audio recordin...." signifies?

If not, is it possible that upgrading to MC11, which I intend to do eventually, would reset the system?

[Piranhahaha]

For those of you who responded, I believe I figured out what happened.

I had been tweaking the gap settings on typical rock albums such that I'd get one or two :02 second tracks of silence for each real track.  I figured that once I imported them into iTunes, I could use the "join track" feature, as I couldn't tell by using MC10 which tracks were silence or soft fade-outs.

As a result, I'd be putting in around 25 tracks on a single CD.

It seems MC10 simply can't handle such a load.

I managed to import a a series of Bach cello suites, 9 tracks total, and Beethoven's 9th, 4 tracks total, without problem. 

But importing the multiple silent tracks?  It won't work. 

I would have REALLY appreciated it it the help index would've explained this. 

The warning messages I got above, "invalid parameter," "couldn't start audio recordin....", and whatever the third one was are not explained anywhere in the index.

It's not to much to ask of a sofware writer to make sure that warning messages in your program are explained in your help index.

At the moment, I'm experiencing the double headache of a .wav file similar to those that I managed to get onto my iPod last night unable to play in MC10 (it fast forwards itself with no audio), which made me try to drop it onto a CD-RW, which MC10 is refusing to believe has been erased (I got to the "successfully erased" box, hit OK, but upon trying to drop files into the burn box, I get ten minutes of whirring D: drive and finally a box that says Drive D: does not have a writable disc).

This has been the most exasperating week I've spent with my computer since Dell and my DSL provider decided to use me as their own private no man's land.

I appreciate your help JohnT & Glynor, but I can't wait to finish getting my final few LP's imported so that I never have to deal with MC again. 

At almost every step of the way: a problem. 

[JimH]

MC's import has an option to "trim silence" and another for very short files.  You might want to take a look at how you have these set.