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Subject:Help!!! CD Burning Problems
Posted by: eternalbass
Date:5/7/2003 3:15:37 AM

Help! I'm new to Soundforge! So bare with me! I just made a new mix, I did all the marks on Sound Forge... So when I finished, I tried to burn it to cd... it went through the whole process, and before I had to click on close cd... and error came up... saying that dirt maybe on the cd or cd may not be supported... so i decided to try and burn it again.. this time... it skiped the selection for closing cd... and said it burned with no problem... i tried to play it in a cd player and it didn't work... what am i doing wrong or what am i suppose to do...

Subject:RE: Help!!! CD Burning Problems
Reply by: Chienworks
Date:5/7/2003 7:09:01 AM

Most stand-alone audio CD players require the disc to be properly closed. If the disc isn't closed, it will probably only be readable on CD-R/RW drives.

Subject:RE: Help!!! CD Burning Problems
Reply by: eternalbass
Date:5/7/2003 11:20:53 AM

Yeah... that i understand... but i wonder why sound forge isn't letting me close it

Subject:RE: Help!!! CD Burning Problems
Reply by: eternalbass
Date:5/7/2003 12:31:45 PM

Ok... I managed to close the disc, and it burn fine... BUT my markings didn't show! It's just one long continous mix! What am I doing wrong now?

Subject:RE: Help!!! CD Burning Problems
Reply by: Chienworks
Date:5/7/2003 12:33:53 PM

SoundForge can't burn track markers. You can burn each of the tracks one at a time using Track At Once mode, but that means that you'll have to split your mix up into individual files for each track. Track At Once mode also leaves two second silent gaps between tracks.

You need a real CD burning application like CD-Architect, Vegas, Nero, or even EZ CD Creator.

Subject:RE: Help!!! CD Burning Problems
Reply by: Geoff_Wood
Date:5/7/2003 8:23:24 PM

SF6 burns Track-At-Once only. One track number per burn. When finished burning files you then bring up the burn dialogue once more, and select 'Close Disc' (or whatever the terminolgy is)....

.... as described clearly, in the Help section and the manual.

If you wish to insert track number into a single file, you need a Disc-At_once burning software such as CD Arcitect, Vegas, CDR-WIN, etc. CDA5 is the nicest, to my way of thinking.

geoff

Subject:RE: Help!!! CD Burning Problems
Reply by: keether
Date:5/8/2003 1:44:24 PM

Yes, isn't that one of the things about Sound Forge! You're "saving" elderly vinyl recordings, but you've got to listen to the music as you create your digital file, and drop a marker at the end of each track as it goes by (just to make it easier on yourself later). THEN you have to "cut" each track out, "Paste to New," and name the new track including a number so your computer doesn't rearrange them alphabetically or whatever.

Then when you have all your individual tracks, you can burn them with a variety of programs, as somebody has pointed out.

If you're also learning about music, as I am, you do get intensely exposed to it during this process.

Subject:RE: Help!!! CD Burning Problems
Reply by: fuldhim
Date:5/10/2003 12:54:10 PM

You can save yourself a little time in a couple of ways.

First, while it's handy to drop track markers in at the beginning of each track as you record the album, you can also start recording and leave SoFo unattended util the side is finished, then take a few minutes to drop the markers in where they need to be.

Second, SoFo will automatically segment your file into individual tracks, if you:

1) Make sure that you have tracks separating each song in the file from the next;
2) Make sure you have a track marker before the first song, and after the last one;
3) Select Special/Regions List/Markers to Regions--this makes each song in the file into a region;
4) Select Tools/Extract Regions--this saves each region in the file to its own sound file, in the directory of your choice.

Now, you can either manually copy each of these finished sound files to a CD using Tools/Burn CD, or use a separate program to make the CD.

Subject:RE: Help!!! CD Burning Problems
Reply by: keether
Date:5/12/2003 4:43:34 PM

I didn't know that about SF automatically marking tracks. I'll check it out.

Problem with the material I'm working with is that it's mostly opera. Often there's no clearcut break between "tracks," as the action onstage is continuous, and one song often grows right out of the last notes of the preceding one. Or there's talking, and sometimes applause. Some commercial versions of important operas have TERRIBLE track-cutting jobs. In one opera I have, the last big note of a soloist is cut right off, and can be heard at the start of the next track! (If they wanted to provide some sense of continuity, they could at least have left the big note on both tracks.)

I'll use your suggestion next time the music is the right kind. Thanks!

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