CD & DVD Whats a good free program for burning CD from all formats ?

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Hi All

Doing a couple of cd's for crimbo pressies and use NTI cd dvd maker which came bundled with my pc .

It hardly ever burns the mp3's i download though and gives stupid errors as 'freq not supported' etc.

Anyone recommend something that burn any mp3 or other formats ?

Cheers
 
i use imageburn ( htxx://www.imgburn.com/ ) for iso`s

or cdburnerxp for audio as i can take out gaps etc between tracks
( hxxp://www.snapfiles.com/get/cdburnerxp.html )
i couldnt log onto the main site for that one so linked it to snapfile

regards
jase
 
I use imgburn for everything. No need to worry about gaps in audio cd's as it doesn't put them in, not only burns MP3 into audio but tons of other formats too, like FLAC for real cd quality. Burn tons of image formats, like ISO, IMG, Bin/Cue.

Also lets you backup files onto disk, burns VOB's to DVD movie disks. Just drag or copy the Video_TS folder in and it automatically knows you want to burn a DVD movie and sets itself accordingly, also does the same for blu-ray movies.

Imgburn does way more than just burn images, and it's FREE.
 
ONES and Imageburn

ones is brilliant, simple to use and very small / low rescources, stands for optical new edge storage.

imgburn i only use for iso burning....
 
I use imgburn for all images, never knw i did audio ? Like the sound of the one which puts gaps in continuous albums.
 
Busta_Gonad said:
why would you want one to put gaps into a continuous album?
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Imgburn doesn't put "gaps" in that's the point, Nero does.

Albums are not continuous, they are split into tracks, even live or megamix ones. It's just that when some plebs rip them for uploading they don't split the tracks and you get 3 MP3's for a triple album. Luckily there are program that will split the tracks for you providing the uploader has provided a CUE file. Cue Splitter is a free program - Medieval CUE Splitter (PC) It will split MP3 or WAV or FLAC files and make tracks based on the CUE file.

When you turn them into an audio CD there are gaps in between the tracks, IE when 1 tracks finishes and another starts, this is normal.

But some programs like Nero actually add 2 seconds to that gap, unless you tell it not to.

That's fine for normal albums but for a live album or a megamix it sounds crap when you get 2 seconds of silence in between tracks, where there should be continuous applause.
 
Captin said:
Imgburn doesn't put "gaps" in that's the point, Nero does.

Albums are not continuous, they are split into tracks, even live or megamix ones. It's just that when some plebs rip them for uploading they don't split the tracks and you get 3 MP3's for a triple album. Luckily there are program that will split the tracks for you providing the uploader has provided a CUE file. Cue Splitter is a free program - Medieval CUE Splitter (PC) It will split MP3 or WAV or FLAC files and make tracks based on the CUE file.

When you turn them into an audio CD there are gaps in between the tracks, IE when 1 tracks finishes and another starts, this is normal.

But some programs like Nero actually add 2 seconds to that gap, unless you tell it not to.

That's fine for normal albums but for a live album or a megamix it sounds crap when you get 2 seconds of silence in between tracks, where there should be continuous applause.
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and that was my point, why would you want to put gaps into a continuous album?
 
Busta_Gonad said:
and that was my point, why would you want to put gaps into a continuous album?
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I don't think I quite get your meaning of continuous album.

There are no continuous albums as far as I know they are all split up into tracks, even live ones and megamixes are tracks. Some, Like tubular bells are only 2 tracks, but most are more.

:)
 
A continuous album is one with no gaps, ie. a mos mixed album, a live performance

rather than an album with gaps in ie a normal artists album.

I prefer my mixes to be unsoiled ie. one continuous mp3 or wav (yes i'm one of those plebs ;)) and a cue sheet, ie. a table of contents.

the cue sheet or toc has all the individual track listings within ie. timings and such, and you obviously get no breaks (even with a good burner like imgburn, you sometimes get bad changeovers if its a badly performed rip)
 
Busta_Gonad said:
A continuous album is one with no gaps, ie. a mos mixed album, a live performance

rather than an album with gaps in ie a normal artists album.

I prefer my mixes to be unsoiled ie. one continuous mp3 or wav (yes i'm one of those plebs ;)) and a cue sheet, ie. a table of contents.

the cue sheet or toc has all the individual track listings within ie. timings and such, and you obviously get no breaks (even with a good burner like imgburn, you sometimes get bad changeovers if its a badly performed rip)
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I see what you mean now. :)

But when I download one like that, a mos album or summat, I use the cue sheet to split the tracks up. There is still no gaps as the file is split according to track markers.

I play the files back using PS3 mediastreamer streaming to the PS3 and still get no gaps, it sounds like 1 continuous album.

I havent writted a CD in around 3 years I only play back using PS3 or PC but never get "gaps" I always get seamless playback. I just prefer the tracks split. It's easier to play back only the tracks I want, just by double clicking that track, without having wade through all the crap I don't want to listen to.
 
Busta_Gonad said:
my car stereo adds the 2 second gap as well if i burn anything to an mp3 data disk, bloody pain to be honest ;)
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I hadn't noticed it before but so does my car if I play MP3's from an SD card or a USB flash drive, but if I burn the MP3's to a blank DVD the playback has no gaps.
 
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