Re: Just want to burn some christmas music

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"Mastered format" is just the method that will be used during burning by the
software... you won't be seeing a separate formatting step like with Live
format. In the "more options" section of the Burn menus set your CD burn
speed to "slow". You'll generally get better results that way, fewer audio
glitches or none at all.

Those "Live" formatted disks that you burned might still be usable in
drag&drop mode for data storage or backup. They aren't re-writable or
erasable in the same way as CD-RWs but it might still be possible to copy
files (documents, photos, mp3s etc.) onto them using Explorer or other
software. Being formatted they will have less storage capacity than blank
CDs but when put into the cd burner should be usable in much the same way as
a floppy diskette would be. These formatted CDs are only readable on
computers.

"joan" <joan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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-- Hi, Frank. Thank you and I will try. Yes, I will use the windows
Media
Player...it I insert the disc and it asks me to format it. I will format
it
in the Mastered format. After that I will drag my desired songs to the
play
list and then press burn. I will see how this goes and get back to
you...Yes
I had great trouble with the Live File system and runied many discs this
way...are...I am very new to all this...will try again and get back to
you.
Joan


"Frank Slootweg" wrote:

joan <joan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi and happy holidays to all! My first time to burn and many times
resulted
in frustration. I went to windows media center. I clicked burn. I
dragged
my desired songs to the play list panel. I clicked burn. I inserted a
blank
disc. It told me to format (box popped up) and I did that as
recommened in
the LIVE format. I then clicked burn again and nothing happened. It
told me
to insert a blank disc again! I must be doing something wrong but I
can't
figure out what. And once I did this it seems my sics can't be used
again..it
is CD-R. It should be simple, right?

I have Vista and Media Player 11...can someone be so kind as to give
step
by step the simpilist way to burn music from computer to a dics (with
or
without the media player) Thank you so much!

Not a step by step description, but some quick notes:

- Do not use Windows Media Center, but Windows Media Player (WMP). After
all, this group is about WMP, isn't it? :-)

- That also gets rid of another problem:
Do *not* use "LIVE format" (it's actually "Live File System format"),
because 1) you can not play that in an audio CD player and 2) you can
only use it with CD-RW (re-writable, *not* recordable (-R)) media.
As you have found, the first thing Live File System format" does is
*format* i.e. *write* the *whole* disk, i.e. after that it is
unusable.
For CD-R you can only use the other format - Mastered format - but
that's irrelevant now, because we are not going to use Windows Media
Center anyway.

- In WMP click on the little down-triangle *below* the Burn button.
Click "Audio CD" so that you get a large dot in front of that setting.
Do *not* use "Data CD or DVD" unless you know for sure (i.e. its
documentation *says so*) that your *audio* CD player accepts *data*
CDs (some of the newer, more capable ones do).

- Now click the Burn button. After that, all is more or less self-
explanatory. Especially read what it says in the right-hand pane.

I hope this helps. Please let me/us know how you went.



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