Burn To CD But Won't Read CD In A Stereo

Most CD players can not read wav files. So if you're burning the music onto a CD as a wav file that might be your problem. Make sure you set the preferences in your burning software so that it is setup to burn in a CD music format. Also make sure that the CD disk is finalized upon completion or it won't play on other CD players. Hope this helps.
Pete

Some players can't read .wav's and some can't read CD-R's as well. I use Real Player, my son uses Windows Media Player and we have both burned CD's that play on on CD players from .wav files from MC3. Check to make sure your player can read CD-R's.

Well, I wouldn't call exporting to WAVE a waste of resources, tho. WAVE is the best format, no compression. yes, it takes up a lot of space, but it's the best format. and you CAN burn wave files to a CD as long as you burn them as a MUSIC CD like Peter said.

If you use WMA, you will loose a little of SOMETHING in the song as compared to WAVE.

Just my 2cents....maybe 3.

Actually, the Beagster is correct. A wav file will provide much better quality in sound than a wma file. So when exporting out of Cakewalk you should export as a wav file and then convert that wav file into a cda file when burning to disk. Not all CD players will play wma files either and if you give a copy of your music to someone else they may not be able to play it on thier CD player.

I think what you're probably doing is trying to burn the file onto CD while you have your burner prefs set to burn a "data" file instead of a "music" file. Usually if you set your burner to burn to a disk in a music format it gives you the options of choosing either CD or MP3 formats. For example if I want to burn a wma file onto a disk I have to burn it as a data file instead of a music file.

Anyway, the point I'm trying to make is that you want to play your music on CD players and you want your music to have the highest quality sound possible. To do this you should export the Cakewalk file as a wav file and then burn your music with your burner's prefs set to music CD format which is a cda file instead of an mp3 or wma. This is going to give you a much better sounding final product and after all the work you put into your music you want it to sound as good as you can make it sound.

Anyway hope this helps.
Pete

Again - I appreciate the help on this. I agree with all in regards to the *.wav being the desired file to burn. I've gone back to both programs in which I am able to burn with and have read, re-read and read again in regards to the settings necessary that have been mentioned.....but still am not able to burn the *.wav file sucessfully to where it will play in anything other than my computer. Why is something so easy become such a major issue???

I think I will check in to a stand alone CD burning software that will allow me to use the *.wav file for burning. I'll look in to the ones mentioned by Robomusic......any other recommendations for this?

Will the included Pyro (that comes in the boxed version of MC3) take care of my problem? Will it allow me to burn the *.wav file to a music CD capable of playin in all stereo systems?

Sorry to be a pain here.......just trying to accomplish what everyone is recommending..........

Thanks!

Thanks scook! I'll give it a go using Pyro this evening. That's one software that I didn't try........

Beagle - Great!

I may have resolved a part of my problem burning the wav files. I bought some "music cd-r's" (duh) and used my Sonic burner software and was able to burn the wav file. The CD played through 2 of the 3 stereo systems that I have........can't figure out why it wouldn't play through the one...........but this is a definite improvement over my previous attempts.

The CW Pyro (1.5 version) that comes stock with the MC3 software is basically garbage. I, like so many others, got the "error 91" message when opening the software up. After reading the other posts on this site in regards to this error and the inability of getting rid of the error, I said screw it and dismissed it as an alternate burner. I can't figure out why it is even included in the boxed set of software as it is not functional. So I'm still considering (and searching) other music burner software to add to my collection of programs for the studio. I would like to get 3 out of 3 to play through my systems.......

scook -
So......are you saying that I do not have to purchase CD's that are labled specifically Music CD-R....? The ones that I purchased were specifically labeled as Music CD-R and are Sony's in a 30 pack at Staples. Please excuse my ignorance here.........

After checking the link to the Taiyo-Yuden CD's that you've mentioned, they seem to be very reasonably priced and available. So I will definitely keep these in mind when ordering new blank CD's. Thanks for the tip! Also.....out of curiosity......the TY cd's say that they are printable on ink jet printers. And maybe this is a dumb question but what type of printer would be used in this type of application?

I should have mentioned in my last post that the Sonic burner software that I used has the "red book" option in burning and I used this option when burning the CD that worked in 2 of the 3 systems. So I must be on the right track here. I'm looking at the Sony CD Architect software that you mentioned and am considering it. But I haven't taken the time to check in to the others available yet. I would prefer to get something that is going to give me quality repro CD's and am regarding this as an investment as opposed to an expense.

Thanks again for all the help!

Thanks!

KW,

I hate that crap also man. Windows media player is horrible to use or you can't use it for burning wav. files, from what I know. I've tried and ended up wasting so many dang CD's!

The problem is WMP will convert the files and if you want to send it out for mastering I am pretty certain you don't want to send a .cda file to someone. That's a joke. You can't even send a cda. file over email to someone, unlike a wma. or mp3, which you can.

I just used Roxio CD burner today, which came with my Dell computer and burned some songs transfered/exported from Cakewalk to wav. file. Not sure how much it costs online. I would think professional mastering places and duplicating places would put your files in "Redbook" format.

I'm not that good with some of this, but yeah WMP sucks on that. Avoid it. If you are just making a CD for someone to listen to and already have your files mastered well and convereted to MP3 or wma in WMP, then fine.

There might be a free CD burner online somewhere that will burn your wav. files as is. Then try to burn at low speed-like only 2X or is that just a myth? Supposedly you'll have less possible errors than burning at high speeds...

KW,
If you have a CD burner, you should already have some kind if in-house burning software that doesn't involve WMP. Check your program files.
fanzz,
You can attach MP3's or wma. file to an email because they are relatively small. Cda and wav files are very large, high bitrate files that exceed the limits on email attachments. They can be transferred using alternate methods. If you send something to be mastered, they will most likely insist on the high resolution wav files, or you will be wasting their time with something they just cant work with.

Though they could master an MP3 also, it just seems a waste not to send your song full strength.

Advice: Any mastering engineer who tells you to send him an MP3 to master you should RUN AWAY FROM. No true mastering house will ask for MP3's. They will want wave files ONLY.

I actually thought cda. files looked really small, like smaller than anything, but maybe I misread it. I don't know why Windows does that stuff.

When you view the properties of a CDA file in windows it's only going to be 1k in size. That's because it's just a map of the songfile that is on the disk and it's hidden.