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Title: Burning problem - CD copy?
Post by: thtv01 on October 28, 2003, 10:42:14 pm

Has anyone been able to get the burning feature to work lately?
I'm trying to make a backup copy of a CD using 9.1.289 and it just stays on the 'Preparing to write' message the whole time.

Am I doing something wrong?
Basically I have a CD in drive X and I am trying to burn that CD to drive Y.  (it's a straight copy, X to Y).  Does MC9 not do this?

I've never used the burn feature so I'm not sure if maybe there is something that I have to setup first.  I looks like it knows what it's suppose to do.  It displays that it will burn each of the tracks on the CD but it just stays on 'Preparing to write' message.  I've tried several different CD's.  

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks
Tim

Title: Re:Burning problem - CD copy?
Post by: JohnT on October 29, 2003, 08:07:50 am

If you're copying an audio CD, you need to have MC rip it first. It will be imported into MC's media library and you can burn a CD from there.

Title: Re:Burning problem - CD copy?
Post by: thtv01 on October 30, 2003, 07:50:18 am

Thanks John!  
So I guess when I rip the CD I can have it rip/encode as an uncompressed wav file instead of mp3's.  Since I'm just wanting to copy a CD I want to use a lossless file type so it sounds exactly like the original.
I did see this option in the encode menu so I'll give that a try.

Thanks
Tim

Title: Re:Burning problem - CD copy?
Post by: JohnT on October 30, 2003, 08:30:40 am

That's right, you need to rip to either "uncompressed wave" or "ape" format (ape is a lossless compression format that is very fast).
Actually, the next build of MC (it may be a few days) will have the capability of directly copying an audio CD to a CD burner.

Title: Re:Burning problem - CD copy?
Post by: crowfan on October 30, 2003, 03:12:58 pm

Quote from: JohnT on October 30, 2003, 08:30:40 am

Actually, the next build of MC (it may be a few days) will have the capability of directly copying an audio CD to a CD burner.

SWEET   ;D

crow

Title: Re:Burning problem - CD copy?
Post by: thtv01 on October 30, 2003, 07:47:20 pm

That's excellent news ;D
You guys rock!

Thanks again  for your help.
Tim