Nero music CD copy problem

[Muse]

Using Nero 6.1.3.15. I've burned hundreds of copies of CD's, always with CD text and don't recall problems but with one disk today the copies I've made won't play. I made two copies of a music CD (Marsupious, "(stone baby)") and with each, every track sounded like just some clicking. It's a trio, vocals, bass and guitar.

I then used Nero again to burn a copy to CDRW (didn't want to waste a CDR), and I put the CDRW in my DVD burner and it played fine. So, I copied it to two CDR's and both of them are just clicks! What could this mean? I could just use the CDRW I suppose, but I reserve those for temporary solutions. Thanks for any ideas/info.

 

[Snapster]

New batch of cd's which are bad?

 

[nordloewelabs]

...or your burner is starting to get "picky" (ie: bad).

 

[Muse]

Originally posted by: Snapster
New batch of cd's which are bad?

Old batch (cheapies, too), maybe too old (~3 years?). Didn't have a problem with them before, and it was a spindle of 100. Down to about the last 25-30 and got to one the burner wouldn't burn. Tried several times. The next 4 have produced coasters. An old (8+ years???!) CDRW burned fine, so I guess I have to suspect the CDR's. I'm due to buy more CDR's and will start looking for some Taiyo Yuden. I still have a 1/2 dozen or so of old TY's, but probably around 7-8 years old now!

Originally posted by: nordloewelabs
...or your burner is starting to get "picky" (ie: bad).

It's the first time I've had trouble with it, but it may be. Or, it could be a factor. 😕

I'm going to try copying to one of my few TY's and see what happens...

 

[Muse]

So, I check and it turns out I have one and only one of my blank Fujifilm Taiyo Yuden CDR's left. So, I use it to copy the CD and lo and behold, the music is again only clicks! WTH.... 😕 The copy only worked with one of my old CDRW's.

 

[Muse]

Every time I've copied this music CD to CDR it's only made clicks (3 or 4 CMC Magnetics and 1 Taiyo Yuden). Both times I copied it to CD-RW, it plays OK, AFAIK. 😕

Why?

 

[Muse]

Originally posted by: Snapster
New batch of cd's which are bad?

Does anyone know what might be wrong? I just bought a new batch of CDR's, Sony's. The audio CD apparently copied fine to two different very old CD-RW's. But every time I've tried to make a CD-R copy, it is said by Nero to be OK, the track titles show up in Winamp OK (I have CD text enabled), but when I play the tracks I get either silent or quiet clicks every second or two, nothing more... every track.

I've gotten 5 toasters using 3 different brands of CD-R's now, Fuji Taiyo Yuden, Sony and K Hypermedia (CMC Magnetics).

The sony CD-R copy I just made was from one of the CD-RW's. It's the weirdest thing. I've copied audio CD's hundreds of times and never experienced anything like this. I guess I should try one of my other burners, but I'm not optimistic. I kind of think it's something to do with this audio CD. My burner is an NEC 2510A DVD/CD burner. Never had a problem with it before. My other burners are all Liteon CD/CDRW burners, except the one in my laptop, which doesn't do DVD's either. However, I don't have another burning in my main PC (all IDE channels used).

 

[corkyg]

Originally posted by: Muse
Every time I've copied this music CD to CDR it's only made clicks (3 or 4 CMC Magnetics and 1 Taiyo Yuden). Both times I copied it to CD-RW, it plays OK, AFAIK. 😕 Why?

Could just be a Nero quirk. What happens if you make a good copy to a CDRW disk and then do a disk copy from the CDRW to a CDR? How about creating an ISO file, then burning from that?

 

[Muse]

Originally posted by: corkyg

Originally posted by: Muse
Every time I've copied this music CD to CDR it's only made clicks (3 or 4 CMC Magnetics and 1 Taiyo Yuden). Both times I copied it to CD-RW, it plays OK, AFAIK. 😕 Why?

Could just be a Nero quirk. What happens if you make a good copy to a CDRW disk and then do a disk copy from the CDRW to a CDR? How about creating an ISO file, then burning from that?

The last copy I made was to the first of my 200 new Sony CD-R's, and it was a disk copy from one of the two CD-RW's, both of which seem fine. The copy made also only makes clicks. Yep, could be a Nero quirk. I have a different CD copy software on my laptop and I'll try copying one of the CD-RW's to a CD-R on it and see what happens. I've done ISO stuff, so I guess I could try that. Basically, it's make an ISO image of the CD-RW onto a HD and then burning burning the image to a CDR, right?

I'm basically unfamiliar with the copy software on my Lenovo T60 laptop, but copying a CD-RW to a CD-R should be pretty straightforward. I want to learn how to use CD Text with it, but it shouldn't be a factor here because the CD-RW is already written with CD Text.

Thanks for the help.

 

[Quiksilver]

Have you tried using WinAMP or WMP to burn the disc's rather than Nero? If it works with either one of those the problem lies with Nero and not your burner or media. If the problem persists after trying it with those two, the it sounds like your burner is starting to die on you. Also what speed are you burning the disc's at? Their maximum? Try a slower speed like 4x or 8x and see if that helps at all.

 

[Muse]

Made a copy of one of the CD-RW's on my laptop using "RecordNow" software, to a Sony CD-R and it's playing fine! So, I have to assume it's a problem in Nero. Hmm. I wonder if the new CDR would copy OK with Nero, but I don't know that I'll risk creating another coaster to find out.

 

[Muse]

Originally posted by: Quiksilver
Have you tried using WinAMP or WMP to burn the disc's rather than Nero? If it works with either one of those the problem lies with Nero and not your burner or media. If the problem persists after trying it with those two, the it sounds like your burner is starting to die on you. Also what speed are you burning the disc's at? Their maximum? Try a slower speed like 4x or 8x and see if that helps at all.

Didn't know Winamp would copy disks. I've been using an old version of Winamp and ignoring the frequent messages asking me up upgrade to 5.x. I'm using 2.95 basically because I use Trackmaker 1.2 that works in conjunction with Winamp to split MP3's into MP3 segments. It might work with a later version of Winamp, but haven't done the experiment. I'm not optimistic, is the thing. I only rarely play MP3's that I haven't created myself, so I'm pretty unconcerned about my version's security vulnerabilities.