Can I burn stuff and listen to a cd at the same time?

[brett1]

OK I'm sitting here waiting for someone to respond to my post in the tech support forum and I thought I'd play some guns 'n roses while burning some stuff. Of course I have both my dvd drive and burner on the same ide channel and my audio cuts out when the burning starts and stops. Could this be related to my burner's transfer mode? (it's currently at PIO 4 [see my tech support post])

Has anyone else been able to play a cd and burn at same time? I'm using winxp with wmp8 and analog cd audio cable

 

[narzy]

umm ya, burning takes a higher processor/memory presidence then Mp3 files or even CD's playing on your machine.

 

[Siddhartha]

Try it and let us know. I suspect you will run into problems with either your system crashing or you burning a coaster.

 

[RanDum72]

As long as your burner has Burn-proof and both CD-RW and regular CD drives have their own IDE channel (plus a fairly fast computer), it should be OK.
Burning CD's may pause once in a while but thats what the burn-proof is for. Now if you have SCSI drives it won't be a problem.

 

[mooseAndSquirrel]

Or you could play track1 from the MP3 disk file as soon as it's ripped and drag in the following tracks as soon as they're ready.