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cann all you ginger ninjas point me in the right direction of some decent cd buring software thats free? for some reason when i burn a cd using windows media player my stereo wont play it properly, only when i use mp3 formats though. and yes my cd player does play mp3's before you ask :roll:
 
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Yup, DRM will degrade the sound. It's an anti-piracy feature.
 
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aye i no all about DRM i do i music technology course at uni lol all the songs dont have DRM so i no its not that i had the same problem with my car stereo windows worked fine in it but other software that did the sae thing didnt and it wouldnt play them im guesing different software burn the cd's different? anyway wat do you use when buring cds?
 
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cann all you ginger ninjas point me in the right direction of some decent cd buring software thats free? for some reason when i burn a cd using windows media player my stereo wont play it properly, only when i use mp3 formats though. and yes my cd player does play mp3's before you ask :roll:

Best I've used .....

http://www.deepburner.com/?r=download
 
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I always used Roxio in the past and found it much better than nero
 
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Yep, IMGBurn is awesome, I use it for burning all of my CDs and DVDs and backing up other CDs/DVDs to ISOs for safe keeping.
 
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Yep, IMGBurn is awesome, I use it for burning all of my CDs and DVDs and backing up other CDs/DVDs to ISOs for safe keeping.

can you back up games with it?
 
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aye i no all about DRM i do i music technology course at uni lol all the songs dont have DRM so i no its not that i had the same problem with my car stereo windows worked fine in it but other software that did the sae thing didnt and it wouldnt play them im guesing different software burn the cd's different? anyway wat do you use when buring cds?

MP3 audio playback on your stereo is becuase youve burned the audio as a DATA DISC
If youre trying to burn the music to CD for use on a stereo, burn the audio as AUDIO CD (not data)... this could be the issue youre having
 
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MP3 audio playback on your stereo is becuase youve burned the audio as a DATA DISC
If youre trying to burn the music to CD for use on a stereo, burn the audio as AUDIO CD (not data)... this could be the issue youre having

The OP says his stereo can play MP3s. Maybe he didn't finalize the disc i.e. used the "live filesystem" option.
 
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The OP says his stereo can play MP3s. Maybe he didn't finalize the disc i.e. used the "live filesystem" option.

yes MP3's played on a stereo is using the DATA DISC option.. MP3 is Data..... if you put WAV's onto a Disc as DATA DISC then you cannot play it in an audio CD player as its DATA.
You need to put WAV as Audio CD information onto a disc for an ordinary CD player to work with it
 
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yes MP3's played on a stereo is using the DATA DISC option.. MP3 is Data..... if you put WAV's onto a Disc as DATA DISC then you cannot play it in an audio CD player as its DATA.
You need to put WAV as Audio CD information onto a disc for an ordinary CD player to work with it

aye i understand that they were all mp3's i set it as data disk finalized it all fine but it wouldnt play on my stereo, it played in my car fine mind you, that first program you all suggested worked a treat an plays on my stereo fine only strange things is they wont work in my car
 

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aye i understand that they were all mp3's i set it as data disk finalized it all fine but it wouldnt play on my stereo, it played in my car fine mind you, that first program you all suggested worked a treat an plays on my stereo fine only strange things is they wont work in my car

Nero can fix this seriously. My stereo and car both play MP3's and they totally run optimal this way.
 

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A big +1 on ImgBurn, so lightweight and win.

a couple of standout features imo;

it ejects the completed disc and loads it into the tray again before verifying, I love this touch.

and classic noises dating back from CloneCD, man I can't gt over that jingle when it's done!
 
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I've found Burnaware Free to be pretty decent, and it's much smaller than Nero Free.
 
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I've found Burnaware Free to be pretty decent, and it's much smaller than Nero Free.

Nero 9 Free is absolute garbage. A bloated and completelly useless package of code that no one wants to use it. Trust me, you don't want to use it even if you tink otherwise. It's that bad. I mean, functionality wise, CD/DVD burning found in Windows has more functionality.
And any other of the above mentioned ones compared to Nero are like comparing Windows 7 against Windows 3.1...
 
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