Re: Burning CDs with Windows Media Player

Thu, 12 May 2005 12:37:08 -0700

I recommend CDRWIN. It's cheaper than Nero, and I have never been able to get anywhere with Nero while I have found CDRWIN to be very accessible.

Bruce

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On Thu, 12 May 2005, Yardbird wrote:

Well, in all modesty, I've been hoping to avoid the (for me) high cost of
that program.

My usage of any such product is going to be pretty moderate, not as if I'll
be cranking out CDs every day as a hobby or something.  And although I do
want a good way to make backups, it doesn't seem as if that ought to cost me
a hundred bucks, either.  Or maybe the accessibility and usability of Nero
is so superior to the others that there's no contest?

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From: "Kevin Lloyd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: Re: Burning CDs with Windows Media Player


Hi Daniel.

I would recommend nero burning ROM for all of your music and back up tasks.
I've used nero for over 5 years and found nothing as accessible and easy to
use.  There are many others on the list using nero too so you won't be stuck
for help and advice.

Regards.

Kevin
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From: "Yardbird" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Thursday, May 12, 2005 1:04 AM
Subject: Burning CDs with Windows Media Player


Recently, I was successful in teaching myself to rip music from CDs using
Windows Media Player, which I'm glad to have done even though I intend to
primarily use CDex for this purpose.  Always good to know more than one
way 
to do something.

But I'm not having such success learning the burn procedure with WMP,
which 
I'd hoped to do in order to avoid having to pay for a commercial
application, considering how seldom I'm bound to use it.

I'm also hoping to be able to use WMP for making backup CDs of data files
periodically, and I'm afraid, from my explorations, that this will be as
confusing with WMP as the music burning function seems)

here's my main question on the music burning procedure:  I understand from
the help files instructions that you're supposed to designate the files to
be burned by choosing them from the Library and/or playlists.  Now, I
don't
know anything about the, nor do I use playlists to orchestrate my
occasional 
PC audio experiences; I just find the track I want to hear in Windows
Explorer, press Enter on it, and WMP plays it.  I don't set up whole
sequences of tracks to play.  So I'm completely out of it about this
Library 
and playlist stuff.

I kept tabbing around and hitting Enter now and then, and finally found a
list of all my audio files.  But they're just a long list, not divided
into
the various albums they're in, as they're arranged on my hard drive under
My 
Music.

Is this the Library?  All I want to do is burn a CD using all the tracks
from that same CD as I've ripped it.  I don't want to create mixes or any
of 
that.  If I still could see better, maybe I'd get into it, the way I once
made mix tapes now and then on cassette.  But I don't really care.  I just
want to find the tracks from one CD, load them into whatever list you're
supposed to load them into, hit a Burn button, and made a new CD.

I'm sorry to be so verbose, but not feeling well today and it's hard to
concentrate.  If anyone reading this realizes that I'm just not one of the
talented blind computer people who can make sense of this function in WMP,
and I ought to buy one of the commercial programs that work more simply,
I'll consider the advice seriously.  I just wanted to give this a try,
since
I was able to figure out the rip function, although I hate all that
tabbing 
around to so many controls I have no idea the function of in this context.

Thanks.

P.S. As I say, I'm willing to bite the bullet and buy a program, but I
was
hoping not to have to spend as much as $100 for the new Nero release, and
it 
seems the blind-popular Roxio Easy CD Creator has been superseded by Easy
Media Creator 7, and I've tried the relatively simply and accessible
Premier 
CD Creator program but had terrible problems with it, problems I believe I
described here recently, and the Premier engineers won't get back to me
about these issues (a ghostly Black Sabbath CD permanently loaded into the
Audio Brabber function, and the program hanging when I press Burn in the
burn program while accidentally not managing to get any files into the
list. 
These are deal-breaker problems.

Anyway, I'm trying.  Help will be appreciated.



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